Global Trends of Research Productivity in Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites: Comprehensive Scientometric Analysis

ABSTRACT

The research on natural-fiber-reinforced composites (NFRC) has been evolving rapidly with many academic publications in recent decades for their potential applications in automotive, textiles, furniture, healthcare, biofuel sectors, and so on. Hence, an attempt is made to provide an overview of NFRC literature by employing novel scientometric and network analysis tools to examine 1143 articles extracted from Scopus database between 2010 and 2022. The novelty in the manuscript that is scientometric and network analysis of different disciplines and, tracking the latest developments would pull of great interest for plenty of much researcher and scholar because today’s some scientific output just focuses on interest, effort, and attention of policy-makers. Results obtained through this work describe the real impact of the research published till date and its usage; it also gives directions for new researchers who wish to perform research on NFRC.

摘要

近几十年来, 由于天然纤维增强复合材料 (NFRC) 在汽车、纺织、家具、医疗保健和生物燃料等领域的潜在应用, 其研究进展迅速, 许多学术出版物也在发表. 因此, 我们试图通过使用新的科学计量学和网络分析工具, 对2010年至2022年间从Scopus数据库中提取的1143篇文章进行研究, 从而对NFRC文献进行概述. 由于今天的科学产出成为决策者关注的焦点, 手稿中的新颖之处, 即对不同学科进行科学计量和网络分析, 并跟踪其最新发展, 引起了大多数研究人员和学者的极大兴趣. 通过这项工作获得的结果描述了迄今为止发表的研究的实际影响及其使用情况, 也为希望对NFRC进行研究的新研究人员提供了方向.

KEYWORDS:

• Scientometric analyzing
• network analyzing
• citation
• co-occurrence
• natural fiber
• reinforced composites

关键词:

• 科学计量分析
• 网络分析
• 引用
• 共现
• 天然纤维
• 增强复合材料

Highlights

1. Several manuscripts on natural-fiber-reinforced composite are evaluated.

2. Classification, usage, and novelty of natural fiber are summarized.

3. Preparation of natural-fiber-reinforced composite is presented.

4. The article reported such factor as co-occurrence analysis.

5. It is shown that there is a significance on natural fiber publication.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical approval

We confirm that all the research meets ethical guidelines and adheres to the legal requirements of the study country. The research does not involve any human or animal-welfare-related issues.

Data availability

The datasets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author on request.

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