Who are the dominant players in the experimental field of quantum entanglement? A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Abstract Quantum entanglement is a major research resource in quantum information science, which has obtained increasing attention and has been intensively studied experimentally in recent years. Based on 7089 research papers in the experimental field of quantum entanglement obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection database, this study investigates the 400 top-cited papers which were written by 498 first or corresponding authors from188 institutions in 32 countries/territories. This study not only relies on traditional methods with first author full counting and corresponding author full counting to present the critical authors, institutions, and countries as designers or executors but also uses distinctive methods with first/corresponding author full counting and first/corresponding author fractional counting to find the dominant players in the experimental field of quantum entanglement. Considering authors, A. Zeilinger and J.W. Pan are the most dominant scientists in this field. The University of Vienna has the best institutional performance in this field, and other institutions such as the University of Science and Technology of China also do fairly well. The results show that the USA, Germany, Austria, the UK, and mainland China fit their reputations as dominant players in the field.