A Bibliometric Analysis of Fuzzy Decision Research During 1970–2015

Fuzzy set just past its 50-year anniversary and different fuzzy associations and organizations hold different forms of conferences and activities to celebrate this epoch-making scientific discovery. As an important branch of fuzzy theory, fuzzy decision has attracted scholars from almost all fields...

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Published in:International journal of fuzzy systems 2017-02, Vol.19 (1), p.1-14
Main Authors: Liu, Weishu, Liao, Huchang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Bibliometrics
Cognition & reasoning
Computational Intelligence
Decision analysis
Decision making
Decision theory
Engineering
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy sets
Health sciences
Linguistics
Literature reviews
Management Science
Operations Research
Philosophers
Set theory
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Summary:Fuzzy set just past its 50-year anniversary and different fuzzy associations and organizations hold different forms of conferences and activities to celebrate this epoch-making scientific discovery. As an important branch of fuzzy theory, fuzzy decision has attracted scholars from almost all fields from psychologists, economists, to computer scientists. In this paper, we conduct a bibliometric analysis on fuzzy decision-related research to find out some underlying patterns and dynamics in this research direction. A total of 13,901 fuzzy decision-related publication records from Web of Science are analyzed with the aid of the text-mining software Vantage Point. Many interesting results with regard to the annual trends, the top players in terms of country level, time dynamic as well as institutional level, the publishing journals, the highly cited papers, and the research landscape are yielded and explained in-depth. It is observed that some small or developing economies (such as China, Iran, Taiwan, and Turkey) are quite active in fuzzy decision research. The fuzzy decision theories and methods have increasingly be utilized in various fields evidenced by the growing number of disciplines involved in the fuzzy decision research.
ISSN:1562-2479
2199-3211
DOI:10.1007/s40815-016-0272-z