@misc{10481/78387,
year = {2022},
month = {10},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78387},
abstract = {A retrospective bibliometric analysis of the railway sector covering the 20-year period
between 2002 and 2021 was carried out to better understand the characteristics of the railway research.
The Scopus database contained 1918 articles published with the keywords “Rail System”. VOSviewer
software was used to create network maps from each of the variables studied. The results showed a
huge increase in the number of publications over this period—notably, work written by Zhang, Y.T.,
who was found to be the most productive author. Engineering was found to be the most studied
subject area of knowledge; Transportation Research Record was the journal with the highest number
of publications; and China was revealed to be the leading country regarding this research field,
Southwest Jiaotong University being the leading institution in this topic. Finally, there was a lack of
research on the environmental impact and sustainability of railway systems, an area that could be
opened up for future study.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Rail system},
keywords = {Literature review},
keywords = {Transportation sector},
keywords = {Sustainability and development},
title = {A Bibliometric Analysis of the Trends and Characteristics of Railway Research},
doi = {10.3390/su142113956},
author = {Da Fonseca Soares, Diogo and Ramos Ridao, Ángel Fermín},
}