Title: | Global development and trend of wind tunnel research from 1991 to 2014: a bibliometric analysis |
Address: | "College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China. Information Resources Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China. College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China. ysho@asia.edu.tw. Trend Research Centre, Asia University, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan. ysho@asia.edu.tw" |
Journal Title: | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11356-018-3019-6 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1614-7499 (Electronic) 0944-1344 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Development and trend of global wind tunnel research from 1991 to 2014 were evaluated by bibliometric analysis. Based on the statistical data from Science Citation Index Expanded from Web of Science, publication performance of wind tunnel research was analyzed from various aspects, including publication output, category distributions, journals, countries, institutions, leading articles, and words analysis. The results show that scientific articles associated with wind tunnel increased dramatically, with Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics as the most productive journal. The USA has been leading in publication output since 1991, while China has become a new-rising force of wind tunnel research. NASA was the dominant institution in wind tunnel field which published most single institution articles and nationally and internationally collaborative articles. The citation lifecycles of the leading articles exhibited different patterns of their trends, but all reached a plateau in certain years. Based on synthesized analysis of title words, abstract words, author keywords, and KeyWords Plus, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) was found to be a hot issue, which needs experimental validation by wind tunnels. Wind loads and wind turbine also caused increasing attentions while lepidoptera and sex pheromone were less studied. In the wind tunnel articles, numerical simulation of CFD was increasingly mentioned while field measurement showed minor change, suggesting the rapid developments of CFD" |
Keywords: | Animals Bibliometrics China *Engineering Hydrodynamics Lepidoptera Publications Publishing Research/*instrumentation/trends *Research Design Sex Attractants United States *Wind Keyword Research trend Sci-expanded Scientometrics Wind tunnel; |
Notes: | "MedlineMo, Ziwei Fu, Hui-Zhen Ho, Yuh-Shan eng Germany 2018/08/30 Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2018 Oct; 25(30):30257-30270. doi: 10.1007/s11356-018-3019-6. Epub 2018 Aug 28" |