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Bibliometric trend analysis on global graphene research

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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.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the knowledge innovation program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2009QNRC05). The authors are grateful to Lei Cui, Xingfu Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jun Zhang and Yongheng Zhong for their helpful discussions and suggestions. The authors would also like to thank the chief editor of Scientometrics and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.

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    Peng Hui Lv, Gui-Fang Wang, Yong Wan & Jia Liu

  2. Bureau of Planning and Strategy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100864, People’s Republic of China

    Qing Liu

  3. Information Resource Research Centre of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, People’s Republic of China

    Fei-cheng Ma

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Lv, P.H., Wang, GF., Wan, Y. et al. Bibliometric trend analysis on global graphene research. Scientometrics 88, 399–419 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0386-x

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