Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Journals in the Area of Materials Science and Engineering for the Benchmarking of Materials Transactions

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis has been conducted against eight representative academic journals, Materials Transactions, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Materials Science and Engineering A, ISIJ International and Science and Technology of Advanced Materials in order to make clear and benchmark the current status of Materials Transactions in the area of materials science and engineering. The status of each journal has been analyzed and comprehensively discussed based on the annual trend of number of published papers, citation per paper, journal impact factor, number and country a ffi liations of authors, rate of zero – citation articles and so forth. The major conclusions are as following: ( 1 ) the decrease in zero – citation articles in Material Transactions and ISIJ International is very slower against passed time than other six journals, and thus approximately 3 of papers in Material Transactions published in remain un – cited. One of the of may be self – by the themselves. ( The average number of references per paper in Material Transactions and ISIJ is less than in the The of the references are generally cited in the introductory part in to review the explain the originality of their research. These results suggest that the coverage of previous papers and the claim of the expected impact given by their research may be insu ffi cient and thus give a negative e ff ect on the citation for Material Transactions. ［ doi:10.2320 / jinstmet.J2021003 ］ ( )