A bibliometric overview of Mechanism and Machine Theory journal: publication trends from 1990 to 2020

Abstract

This work reports a bibliometric overview of Mechanism and Machine Theory journal in the timespan 1990-2020. This desideratum is achieved by considering the most relevant features associated with the life of this scientific journal, namely in terms of publications, citations, regions of origin of publications, authors, institutions, etc. In the present study, the Scopus database was chosen as the platform to identify and extract information on those aspects. Thus, based on the data collected, a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of Mechanism and Machine Theory is performed, which permits to reveal the overall picture of the journal trends in evolution, as well as its impact and influence in the mechanism and machine science community. Overall, the outcomes presented in this study allow to observe that Mechanism and Machine Theory journal has been attracting more and more interest year after year.