The Intellectual Structure of Solar Cell Research: Bibliometric Study of Most Cited Works Ravikumar S.1,*, Barooah P.K.2, Hazarika Hirak Jyoti3 1Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India 2Professor, DL.I.Sc., USTM, Meghalaya (Formerly Principal Technical Officer and Head ICT & KRC, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology), Jorhat, Assam, India 3Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India *Corresponding author email id: ravikumarnehu@gmail.com
Online published on 9 April, 2020. Abstract In this article the researchers try to map the intellectual structure of solar cell research. From the data set it's found that prior to year 2000 literature output was low, but after that substantial increase in publication count is noticed. Graetzel, M was the most prolific author with 58 publications; USA is the most cited county with 88,984 citations, the journal of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, is the prominent source with 119 articles on Solar cell topic. Yang Y has emerged as famous actor in bibliographic coupling network, Oregan. B has topped the table in co-citation network. USA, Switzerland, Germany and Japan are the three top collaborating countries. Historical co-citation analysis has help to identify the top three authors with LCS and GCS. Conceptual structure of keywords has given the clear picture of the key terms used by various authors over the period of time. The most prominent key terms emerged are film, efficiency and performance. Scientific productivity in the study sample is in-line with lotka's law. Top Keywords Bibliometric, Mapping, Citation network, Information visualisation. Top |