Track: Manufacturing and Design

Abstract

Bibliometric research is one of important technique that deals with statistical analysis of publications in a specific research field. The method has the ability to classify the information with various variables such as journals, countries and authors. This study reviews a general overview of the research that has been reported in the field of electron beam melting (EBM) by using the bibliometric indicators. The indicators provide a general picture and identifying the most influential research in this field. The study divided into key analysis sections which focused on relevant journals, research papers, influential authors and countries. The main objective of the study is to be informative regarding electron beam melting research and the used indicators sum up the most essential research in this area by using the web of science (WOS) database. However, some limitation could be expected with the presented results due to the fact that some researches will be excluded from the analysis if they are not presented in the Web of Science database, which is the main source utilized for carrying out this research.