Abstract
Symmetry is an international journal in the research fields of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, theory and methods, and other scientific disciplines and engineering. The first paper was published in 2009. Here, we make a bibliometric analysis of publications in Symmetry from 2009 to 2019. According to Web of Science (WoS), we obtained 3215 publications in this journal. First, we explore the publications, citation number, and citation structure based on bibliometric indicators. Second, we analyze the most influential objects, including countries/regions, institutions, authors, and papers. Cooperation networks are also presented. Next, the co-citation and burst detection analyses are conducted according to the techniques of visualization tools, i.e., VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Furthermore, the co-occurrence analyses and timeline view analyses of keywords are investigated, aiming to explore the research hotspots. Finally, this paper provides relatively thorough perspectives and reviews and discloses the future development trend of this journal and challenges for scholars, which will promote the development of the journal and in-depth research of scholars.
Highlights
The bibliometric method has been widely applied in exploring publications’ structure and the development of a journal
I.e., VOSviewer [11,12], CiteSpace [13,14,15], CiteNetExplorer [16], Bicomb [17,18], BibExcel [19,20], etc., the science mapping enriches the contents of bibliometric analyses from co-citation, co-occurrence, co-authorship, and burst detection aspects
Symmetry is an international open-access journal indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science, search for “Symmetry-Basel”), Scopus, MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society), and other databases with an impact factor of 2.645 by Journal Citation Reports (2019)
Summary
The bibliometric method has been widely applied in exploring publications’ structure and the development of a journal. I.e., VOSviewer [11,12], CiteSpace [13,14,15], CiteNetExplorer [16], Bicomb [17,18], BibExcel [19,20], etc., the science mapping enriches the contents of bibliometric analyses from co-citation, co-occurrence, co-authorship, and burst detection aspects It helps scholars intuitively grasp research trends greatly and main research focuses in different phases [21]. Symmetry is an international open-access journal indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science, search for “Symmetry-Basel”), Scopus, MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society), and other databases with an impact factor of 2.645 by Journal Citation Reports (2019) It covers research on symmetry phenomena in scientific studies, including physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, theory and method, etc. The influential contributorsand in terms of papers, institutions, and authors are presented in Section co-occurrence timeline view countries/regions, analyses of keywords
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