Scientometric Analysis with Special Reference to Mobile Technology Publications for the Year 2003-2013

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the scientometric analysis of mobile technology publication output using Scopus database for period of 11 years between 2003 and 2013. For this study analysis of 51,258 research articles obtained from the mobile technology output of Scopus database, and it was found that the year 2012 was the most productive year with 6,606 articles (12.89%) published. The relative growth rates (RGR) has decreased from 2003 (0.98) to 2013 (0.13) in the span of 10 years. The Doubling Time (DT) has been gradually increased from 0.71 in 2003 to 5.15 in 2013. The highest numbers of articles (17.83%) were contributed by the authors from USA. China has got second rank to contribute in this field with 14.28% followed by South Korea 6.12% of articles and UK 611% of articles respectively. The most prolific author is Pujolle, G, who contributed 40 articles (0.078%), followed by Mori, K with 37 papers (0.072%). The maximum number of articles have been published in English Language (96.38%), followed by Chinese 2.04% articles, German 0.62% articles and 0.26% in Russian.

Keywords: Mobile Technology, Scientometric Analysis, Author Productivity, RGR, DT, Scopus Database

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