An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field: A practical application to the Fuzzy Sets Theory field

By Manuel Jesus Cobo, Antonio Gabriel López-Herrera, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Herrera. J. Informetrics, 2011

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Subfields: Information Systems, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics and Probability

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Social Life-Cycle Assessment: A Review by Bibliometric Analysis (2020, background): “In addition, various representations of the same concept were reduced to one form, as is desirable in co-word analysis [4,37].”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. A Bibliometric Analysis of Their Interrelations (2021, methodology): “The main objective of this methodology consists of identifying, organizing, and analyzing the main components within a specific research field [81,82].”
Some bibliometric procedures for analyzing and evaluating research fields (2017, positive): “We should point out that there are other science mapping software tools [16], but not all of them cover the science mapping workﬂow [7][15] and are not freely available.”
A Holistic Review of Cement Composites Reinforced with Graphene Oxide (2018, background): “Science mapping also displays the structural and dynamic aspects of a scientific research [34], and represents spatially how disciplines, fields, and individual publications or authors related to one another [35].”
Microalgae Water Bioremediation: Trends and Hot Topics (2020, background): “In these plots, the themes are represented by spheres and the size of each sphere is representative of the number of articles and includes the number of citations [70].”
Socio-environmental impacts of lithium mineral extraction: towards a research agenda (2018, methodology): “…the identified research themes can be classified into four thematic groups (Callon et al 1991, Courtial 1994, Coulter et al 1998, He 1999, Cahlik 2000, Bredillet 2009, Cobo et al 2011): (a) motor, (b) basic and transversal, (c) emerging or declining, and (d) highly developed and isolated theme.”
Fuzzy decision making: A bibliometric-based review (2017, positive): “Other authors have developed bibliometric studies in the field of computational intelligence that highlights fuzzy systems [25, 26], the evolution of the applications made in fuzzy sets theory [27], the development of Atanassov intuitionistic fuzzy set [28], review on aggregation operator research [”
Conceptual structure and perspectives on entrepreneurship education research: A bibliometric review (2019, methodology): “This was followed by clustering keywords to themes using the simple centers algorithm (Cobo et al., 2011), which locates keyword networks that are strongly linked to each other and that correspond to centers of interest.”