TIMELINE-BASED NETWORK ANALYSIS OF A PUBLICATION SAMPLE RELATED TO PACKAGING VIBRATION TESTING

Abstract

Records of search queries can often be exported from scientific databases, most
of them contain the record of citations, as well. However, it is ineffective to register
the citation relationships among publications manually, so the reader might lean on
the number of citations when looking for leading publications. One can be interested
in trend-setting publications or the primary columns of the discipline in terms of
publications. Beneath the conventional literature reviews, helpful solutions are
available to assist the reader in similar questions. Network visualizations in
bibliographic analyses have long-established practices, offering appealing tools to
visualize complex connection systems constituted by different bibliometric couplings.
The current paper investigates the direct citation network of a sample drawn from the
Web of Science scientific database in the relation of a particular research field
concerning road induced vibrations from a packaging testing perspective. The sample
consists of 46 publications embracing 28 years as of date. Core publications are
identified first, supplemented by qualitative contextual reviews, followed by main
path analysis. The assays attempt to estimate the main research topics of the
investigated discipline by the given sample.
Key words: Direct citation network, Timeline-based network, Main path analysis,
Road vehicle vibration, Packaging vibration testing