A scientific assessment of home networking research trends

Author

Yin, Chi-Yen ; Yang, Jiann-Min

Author_Institution

Dept. Manage. of Inf. Syst., Nat. Chengchi Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 June 2010

Firstpage

421

Lastpage

425

Abstract

This research presents a bibliometric approach to quantitatively assessing the characteristics of home networking research, utilizing the related literature information from 1981 to 2009 at Engineering Village 2 (Ei) database. The results of this study reveal that the literature production on the research aspect of home networking grows exponentially with an annual growth rate about 20%. The analysis of literature distribution of home networking does confirm the typical S-shape for Bradford´s plot in last decade. The most document type of publication is conference article, composting 67.92% of total literature and English is the major language (98.06%). Republic of Korea tops the ranking and delivered the major contribution for total literature publication (19.91%) on home networking.

Keywords

Bibliometrics; DSL; Databases; IPTV; Information management; Local area networks; Management information systems; Power engineering and energy; Production; Productivity; Bibliometric Methodology; Bradford´s Law; Home networking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Sciences and Interaction Sciences (ICIS), 2010 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7384-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7386-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICIS.2010.5534793

Filename

5534793