Bibliometric trend analysis on global graphene research

  • Authors:

  • Peng Hui Lv;Gui-Fang Wang;Yong Wan;Jia Liu;Qing Liu;Fei-Cheng Ma

  • Affiliations:

  • Wuhan Documentation and Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 430071;Wuhan Documentation and Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 430071;Wuhan Documentation and Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 430071;Wuhan Documentation and Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 430071;Bureau of Planning and Strategy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China 100864;Information Resource Research Centre of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 430072

  • Venue:
  • Scientometrics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Graphene is a rising star as one of the promising materials with many applications. Its global literature increased fast in recent years. In this work, bibliometric analysis and knowledge visualization technology were applied to evaluate global scientific production and developing trend of graphene research. The data were collected from 1991 to 2010 from the Science Citation Index database, Conference Proceeding Citation Index database and Derwent Innovation Index database integrated by Thomson Reuters. The published papers from different subjects, journals, authors, countries and keywords distributed in several aspects of research topics proved that graphene research increased rapidly over past 20 years and boosted in recent 5 years. The distinctions in knowledge map show that the clusters distributed regularly in keywords of applied patents in recent 5 years due to the potential applications of graphene research gradually found. The analytical results provided several key findings of bibliometrics trend.