The importance of bibliometric analyses is to analyse a large number of scientific documents for a specific research area in order to discover the structure and dynamics of research. Bibliometric analyses have not yet been done for technical woven fabrics, so in this master thesis we investigated the theoretical foundations of technical woven fabrics, searched for recent research in the field, and performed a bibliometric analysis of publications to identify trends. We used the international bibliographic database Scopus to retrieve documents for the bibliometric analysis and searched for suitable documents with a complex search profile. This was followed by a longer data cleaning step.
The bibliometric analysis was used for performance analysis and science mapping. With the performance analysis, we investigated the most cited documents, the most productive and most influential authors, countries and sources (journals and conferences). We examined the most frequent keywords and showed the number of documents and citations by year. We used science mapping to investigate the co-occurrence of keywords, the temporal evolution of topics, collaboration between authors and collaboration between countries.
In the initial stages, Microsoft Excel was used to clean and process the data and to visualise the results later. Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny was used for bibliometric analyses and visualisations of the results.
The results of the bibliometric analysis answered all the research questions. The most cited papers are related to textile composites. This is by far the most researched area. The author with the most research papers comes from Belgium. Authors from the United States of America have published the most papers. China has the most collaborations with other countries, most often with the United States. Keyword analysis shows that among properties, the most research papers include tensile strength, among materials they include laminated composites, fibre-reinforced plastics and carbon fibres, and the finite element method among methods. More recent research is in the areas of electronic textiles, smart textiles, ballistics, tissue engineering, nanofibres and 3D composites.
This research has given us an insight into the development of the field of technical woven fabrics and research trends. The added value of this work is the recent review of research in the field of technical woven fabrics, which suggests avenues for further research. It provides researchers with an insight into the themes of recent research, the collaboration between authors and countries, and provides ideas for new original research and where to publish it.
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