A historical review and trend analysis of ubiquitous computing research using bibliometric methodology during 1993 to 2009

Abstract

This research is mainly to explore a bibliometric approach to quantitatively assessing research trend on ubiquitous computing, utilizing the related literature information in Ei database from 1993 to 2009. The result appeared that the literature production within ubiquitous computing title is fast growing. The distribution of cumulative numbers of literature on ubiquitous computing does confirm the typical S-shape for Bradford’s plot. 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 is the biggest contributing country on ubiquitous computing literature publishing (19.91%). National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Sungkyunkwan University (Korea) and Korea University (Korea) are ranking as the top three author affiliations in this paper.