Bibliometric analysis on mathematics, 3 snapshots: 2005, 2010, 2015

TL;DR

This paper conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of mathematics publications from 2005, 2010, and 2015, examining feature evolution, citation relations, and collaboration patterns over a decade.

Contribution

It provides a detailed temporal analysis of bibliometric features and their relation to citations in mathematics research, using decision trees to assess feature importance.

Findings

Identification of key features influencing citations

Insights into collaboration patterns over 10 years

Evolution of publication features across snapshots

Abstract

We carry out a thorough bibliometric analysis of recent publications in mathematics based on the database Web of Science. The individual relations between various features and the citations are provided, and the importance of the features is investigated with decision trees. The evolution of the features over a period of 10 years is also studied. National and international collaborations are scrutinized, but personal information are fully disregarded.