Abstract
As bibliometrics analysis is one of the most common used technique when dealing with the evolution of a specific field, this type of analysis have been used in this paper for offering a proper view of the social networks evolution, with accent on the online social networks area. Using the Web of Science (WoS) search engine, a series of papers focusing on the social networks’ studies have been extracted and analysed. Therefore, all of the five citation indexes covered by the WoS Core Collection have been considered for conducting this analysis. More than 70000 papers have been analysed form both the social networks and OSN area, underlying the fact that the social networks/OSN area is a continuous growing area, gathering year by year new researches/ researchers from all around the world. Even more, the citation metrics are strengthening this area’s continuous growing due to their higher number from one year to another