The purpose of this research is to assess the universal scientific trends and examine the patterns in the intellectual research
published on trade liberalization over a period of 35 years (1980-2015). The data were collected from a leading indexing and
abstracting database Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The Kruskal-Walis test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation were
employed in analyzing the retrieved data. Based on the citation trend of first 100 highly cited published articles with the least
number of authors are found to have received the highest number of citations. Our result shows that there is actual statistical
significance (pӈ 0.001) between the total citations attracted by articles published by 1 author and those published by 3 and 4
authors. The word trade liberalization has become dominant and consistent in the field of the study. These research trend and
interest could provide focus to researchers for future research.
Nader
Ale Ebrahim holds a PhD degree in Technology Management from the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Tehran with distinguished honors. He also has over 19 years of
experience in the establishment of the R&D departments in different
companies, heading projects as the project director and project coordinator and
implementing knowledge based system in the R&D department. His current
research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools, Bibliometrics and
managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. His papers/articles have
published and presented in the several journals and conferences.
research trends
citation analysis
Web of Science
527.5
k
Patents
6.6
k
Conferences
1.9
k
Events
3.3
k
Jobs
6.7
k
Notes
3.4
k
Authors
253
Publishers
2.7
k
Users
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