TY - JOUR
T1 - A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Fractional Programming (1965–2020)
AU - Toloo, Mehdi
AU - Khodabandelou, Rouhollah
AU - Oukil, Amar
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This study was supported by the Czech Science Foundation, grant number 19-13946S.
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PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - Fractional programming (FP) refers to a family of optimization problems whose objective function is a ratio of two functions. FP has been studied extensively in economics, management science, information theory, optic and graph theory, communication, and computer science, etc. This paper presents a bibliometric review of the FP-related publications over the past five decades in order to track research outputs and scholarly trends in the field. The reviews are conducted through the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) database of the Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics). Based on the bibliometric analysis of 1811 documents, various theme-related research indicators were described, such as the most prominent authors, the most commonly cited papers, journals, institutions, and countries. Three research directions emerged, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, and Applied Mathematics.
AB - Fractional programming (FP) refers to a family of optimization problems whose objective function is a ratio of two functions. FP has been studied extensively in economics, management science, information theory, optic and graph theory, communication, and computer science, etc. This paper presents a bibliometric review of the FP-related publications over the past five decades in order to track research outputs and scholarly trends in the field. The reviews are conducted through the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) database of the Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics). Based on the bibliometric analysis of 1811 documents, various theme-related research indicators were described, such as the most prominent authors, the most commonly cited papers, journals, institutions, and countries. Three research directions emerged, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, and Applied Mathematics.
KW - bibliometric analysis
KW - fractional programming
KW - literature review
KW - mapping network
KW - visualization
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U2 - 10.3390/math10111796
DO - 10.3390/math10111796
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85131603057
SN - 2227-7390
VL - 10
SP - 1796
JO - Mathematics
JF - Mathematics
IS - 11
M1 - 1796
ER -