Abstract
The contributions of researchers at a global level in the journal Electronics in the period 2012–2020 are analyzed. The objective of this work is to establish a global vision of the issues published in the Electronic magazine and their importance, advances and developments that have been particularly relevant for subsequent research. The magazine has 15 thematic sections and a general one, with the programming of 385 special issues for 2020–2021. Using the Scopus database and bibliometric techniques, 2310 documents are obtained and distributed in 14 thematic communities. The communities that contribute to the greatest number of works are Power Electronics (20.13%), Embedded Computer Systems (13.59%) and Internet of Things and Machine Learning Systems (8.11%). A study of the publications by authors, affiliations, countries as well as the H index was undertaken. The 7561 authors analyzed are distributed in 87 countries, with China being the country of the majority (2407 authors), followed by South Korea (763 authors). The H-index of most authors (75.89%) ranges from 0 to 9, where the authors with the highest H-Index are from the United States, Denmark, Italy and India. The main publication format is the article (92.16%) and the review (5.84%). The magazine publishes topics in continuous development that will be further investigated and published in the near future in fields as varied as the transport sector, energy systems, the development of new broadband semiconductors, new modulation and control techniques, and more.
Highlights
The Electronics magazine publishes topics of special interest that cover different areas, such as power electronics [1], the design of photovoltaic systems integrated by optimal control mechanisms [2], the development of new energy converters [3], the development of electric vehicles [4], as well as the study of new semiconductors that allow for devices with higher performance [5]
A filtering process was applied to the total number of documents, which made it possible to eliminate those that were not cited by any other paper, due to the lack of collaboration ties between the authors
The simulation results show that the proposed method significantly improves the performance of Direction of Arrivals (DOA) estimation, beating other methods and reducing the Mutual Coupling (MC) effect by approximately 4 dB
Summary
The Electronics magazine publishes topics of special interest that cover different areas, such as power electronics [1], the design of photovoltaic systems integrated by optimal control mechanisms [2], the development of new energy converters [3], the development of electric vehicles [4], as well as the study of new semiconductors that allow for devices with higher performance [5]. Other widely developed lines of research are those related to optoelectronics [6], biomedical applications [7] and wireless communications [8] In these areas, numerous investigations have been established that seek to establish more efficient, safe and ecological communication systems allowing for the extension of the concept of the “Internet of Things” to a greater number of smart devices and applications. Numerous investigations have been established that seek to establish more efficient, safe and ecological communication systems allowing for the extension of the concept of the “Internet of Things” to a greater number of smart devices and applications Devices such as GPUs, DPSs and microcontrollers, along with other powerful computing tools, have been used in several of these publications. The importance and variability of the published topics is amply reflected in this work, with the “Electronics” magazine representing a Electronics 2020, 9, 977; doi:10.3390/electronics9060977 www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics
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