Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Collaboration in Quantum Dots Literature

Abstract

The field of quantum dots has grown significantly in recent years. A quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this research domain is essential for understanding current trends and future directions. Given the progress made so far, this work aims to facilitate scientific collaboration in the field of quantum dots through a systematic review of 4,176 scientific articles published in the Web of Science database between 2014 and 2023. The study utilized various bibliometric methods, including year-wise publications, annual growth, relative growth rate, doubling time, citation analysis, authorship pattern, collaborative index, identifying co-authorship and collaboration country, top most bibliographic coupling document, and most cited reference. The study period from 2014-2023 has evinced a mean relative growth rate of 0.84 and a doubling time of 3.89. Secured the topmost publication, 519 (2018), simultaneously with a relative growth rate of 12.43.18%. As predicted by the highest citation rate of 25094, an average citation per paper of 51.74% was produced in 2014. The trend of multi-authored papers has significantly increased to 4187 (97.87%), compared to just 89 (2.31%) single-authored papers. Notably, the degree of collaboration was recorded at 0.12% from 2014 to 2018. Additionally, the highest collaboration coefficient, 17.37, was observed in 2023. China had the highest number of publications during this study period. The USA secured the first position in co-authorships and country collaboration at the international level. In addition, the top bibliographic coupling documents are Lim, 2015 and the most cited reference Murray CB, 1993, Journal of the American Chemical Society, VII5, P8706 2023.