Robotics Research Visibility in BRICS Countries: A Scientometrics Study

摘要

The result of our study shows that the research community of China published the more research documents on robotics (538-59.7114%). Even in the case of citation and self, also the research documents published by China community get more citation (3458) and the same community have more self-cited (263-80.1829%), but when looking in terms of average of citation per document, South Africa possess more with 9.9333. In case of "h index", also the research community of China have the highest h index of 26 which is more than one-third of h index of BRICS countries.