The Knowledge Domain of The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering Between 2006 and 2019

Abstract

The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering is a multidisciplinary journal, which provides a forum for a broad range of road and bridge engineering research. The topics such as the road and bridge research and design, the construction materials and technologies of roads and bridges, the construction financing and environmental issues, and the assessment management are included in the scope of the Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering investigation. Due to the reason that various road and bridge engineering related research directions are involved in this journal, it has become the first one that deals with the issues as mentioned above in Baltic countries. Therefore, it is believed that investigating the publications in the Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering assists researchers in great learning the development of road and bridge engineering research in Baltic countries. By analysing the annual publication distribution, the citation structure, the co-citation and cooperation networks, and the significant contributors in terms of countries and regions, institutions, cited journals and authors, the status of Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering is comprehensively presented. In addition, the emerging trends are revealed through the analyses of timeline view and burst detection. This study makes the contribution to the aspect of visualizing the complex and significant results based on objective and quantitative data. It provides readers with access to understand the development of Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering and helps researchers learn the hot issues in this journal clearly and directly.

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“…The whole process of bibliometric analysis of the journal is illustrated in Figure 1. The different application fields of bibliometric analysis include civil engineering and management [5], automation in construction [6], energy [7], road and bridge engineering [8], transport [9], etc. Particularly, it is interesting to publish special issues or papers to celebrate the significant anniversary of a journal.…”

“…Note that in the literature, it has become the norm to develop bibliometric research since it provides scholars with realistic and objective statistics and analysis, enabling researchers to build a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the research field. The different application fields of bibliometric analysis include civil engineering and management [5], automation in construction [6], energy [7], road and bridge engineering [8], transport [9], etc. Particularly, it is interesting to publish special issues or papers to celebrate the significant anniversary of a journal.…”

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“…Up to now, some research areas, like sustainable energy (Hache, Palle 2019), uncertain group decision-making (Wang et al 2021) and supply chain of renewable energy (Azevedo et al 2019), have been studied by bibliometric analysis. In addition, it seems to be popular to analyse journals comprehensively so that scholars and editors better understand the trends and features, and some top journals have been researched, such as: The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering (Zhou et al 2020), Transport , Journal of Civil Engineering and Management (Yu et al 2019), IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems , Information Sciences (Yu et al 2017), and European Journal of Operational Research (Laengle et al 2017).…”