Trends in scientific production in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering area in Scopus between 2017 and 2021

Abstract

Introduction: industrial and manufacturing engineering focuses on designing, improving and optimizing production systems and business operations to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality and profitability of companies. Objective: to characterize the scientific production published in Scupus in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering research area between 2017 and 2021. Method: observational, descriptive and bibliometric analysis of the articles published in Scopus in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering research area between 2017 and 2019. SciVal was used as a metric tool based on the data collected from Scopus for the analysis of the area based on indicators of production citation and collaboration. Result: 357 310 articles were published in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering research area, where 21 % responded equally to the Environmental Sciences area, 18,7 to Energy and 17,8 % to the Computer Science area. The most productive themes were the topics T.1114 (n= 3285) and T.3401 (n=1883). 41,1 % of the articles presented only institutional collaboration. According to the percentile based on the CiteScore, 49,2 % of the articles were published in Q1 journals. The Chinese Academy of Sciences was the most productive institution (5 853). Conclusions: scientific production in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering area was characterized by increasing trends in volume and decreasing citations, as well as by transdisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and international and national collaboration. The articles were mostly published in high-impact journals.