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Review
. 2022 Jul 8;15(14):4796.
doi: 10.3390/ma15144796.

A Scientometric Review on Mapping Research Knowledge for 3D Printing Concrete

Chuan He  1 , Shiyu Zhang  1 , Youwang Liang  1 , Waqas Ahmad  2 , Fadi Althoey  3 , Saleh H Alyami  3 , Muhammad Faisal Javed  2 , Ahmed Farouk Deifalla  4
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Review

A Scientometric Review on Mapping Research Knowledge for 3D Printing Concrete

Chuan He et al. Materials (Basel). .

Abstract

The scientometric analysis is statistical scrutiny of books, papers, and other publications to assess the "output" of individuals/research teams, organizations, and nations, to identify national and worldwide networks, and to map the creation of new (multi-disciplinary) scientific and technological fields that would be beneficial for the new researchers in the particular field. A scientometric review of 3D printing concrete is carried out in this study to explore the different literature aspects. There are limitations in conventional and typical review studies regarding the capacity of such studies to link various elements of the literature accurately and comprehensively. Some major problematic phases in advanced level research are: co-occurrence, science mapping, and co-citation. The sources with maximum articles, the highly creative researchers/authors known for citations and publications, keywords co-occurrences, and actively involved domains in 3D printing concrete research are explored during the analysis. VOS viewer application analyses bibliometric datasets with 953 research publications were extracted from the Scopus database. The current study would benefit academics for joint venture development and sharing new strategies and ideas due to the graphical and statistical depiction of contributing regions/countries and researchers.

Keywords: 3D printing; cementitious composites; concrete; scientometric analysis.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Sequential research methodology.
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Articles subject area.
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Published document types in the relevant field of study.
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Annual publication trend of articles.
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Scientific visualization of publication sources with at least 10 publications in the related research area.
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Analysis of keywords; (a) scientific visualization and (b) density visualization.
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Analysis of keywords; (a) scientific visualization and (b) density visualization.
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Scientific visualization of researchers who published articles in relevant research area.
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Published articles scientific mapping in relevant area of research until 2022; (a) connected documents based on citations (b) connected articles density.
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Published articles scientific mapping in relevant area of research until 2022; (a) connected documents based on citations (b) connected articles density.
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Scientific visualization regions having minimum ten publications in relevant research area until 2022 (a) network visualization and (b) density visualization.
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