Scientometric Analysis and Systematic Study of Nanomaterial Synthesized via CVD, Sol-Gel, and VPG Methods: A Big Data Clustering Perspective

Nanomaterials have massively attracted the attention of researchers in the last decade. Their outstanding properties can increase industrial product performance. Nanomaterials are widely used in medical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and environment sectors. The properties of nanomaterials highly depend on the synthesis methods. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD), sol-gel, and vapor phase growth (VPG) are some of the synthesis methods of nanomaterials that growth rapidly. A deeper understanding is needed to know their research interrelationship and development. This study performed scientometric analysis to gain nanomaterials research interrelationship and development. An understanding of nanomaterial research direction is essential to determine future research. The Scopus database was used to retrieve publication documents related to selected keywords. VOSviewer software was used to examine the scientometric analysis based on three different keywords (CVD, Sol-gel, VPG). A total of 6000 documents have been listed and split into each keyword, respectively divided from 320 journals that have relevance with chemical vapor deposition keyword, 277 journals of sol-gel keyword, and 468 journals of vapor phase growth. The final keywords connected were obtained after manual filtering post-processing. The scientometric analysis result was presented in networks and clusters of keywords. Each keyword has a link to the other that represents the connected variable in the research. The trend of nanomaterials research in the current and future can be analyzed from research networks