Soft Robotics: Academic Insights and Perspectives Through Bibliometric Analysis

Soft Robotics
Guanjun BaoLibin Zhang

Abstract

Soft robotics is of growing interest in the robot community as well as in public media, and there is an increase in the quality and quantity of publications related to this topic. To formally elaborate this growth, we have used a bibliometric analysis to evaluate the publications in the field from 1990 to 2017 based on the Science Citation Index Expanded database. We present a detailed overview and discussion based on keywords, citation, h-index, year, journal, institution, country, author, and review articles. The results show that the United States takes the leading position in this research field, followed by China and Italy. Harvard University has the most publications, high average number of citations per publication and the highest h-index. IEEE Transactions on Robotics ranks first among the top 20 academic journals publishing articles related to this field, whereas Soft Robotics holds the top position in journals categorized with "ROBOTICS." Actuator, fabrication, control, material, sensing, simulation, bionics, stiffness, modeling, power, motion, and application are the hot topics of soft robotics. Smart materials, bionics, morphological computation, and embodiment control are expected to contribute to this field in the...Continue Reading

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Citations

Dec 6, 2018·Environmental Microbiology Reports·Antoine Danchin
Sep 25, 2019·Bioinspiration & Biomimetics·Jinhua ZhangMichael Yu Wang
Sep 27, 2019·Bioinspiration & Biomimetics·Kevin ChubbTed Burke
Dec 19, 2019·Soft Robotics·Davide ZappettiDario Floreano
Feb 23, 2020·Polymers·Ivan D RukhlenkoSimon Fleming
Apr 7, 2020·Soft Matter·Nicholas W BartlettRobert J Wood
Jun 27, 2019·Soft Robotics·Kevin C GallowayEric J Barth
Aug 8, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Yanqi WuYuehua Wan
Sep 27, 2018·Advanced Science·Hongbo WangLucia Beccai
Jan 9, 2021·Soft Robotics·Zheng ZhangShaofei Jiang
Jan 28, 2021·Frontiers in Robotics and AI·Concepción A Monje, Cecilia Laschi
Jan 28, 2021·Frontiers in Robotics and AI·Lisbeth MenaCarlos Balaguer
Jan 28, 2021·Frontiers in Robotics and AI·Lars SchillerJosef Schlattmann
Feb 19, 2021·PloS One·Daekyum KimSungho Jo
Mar 16, 2021·Frontiers in Robotics and AI·Matthias HoferRaffaello D'Andrea
May 28, 2021·Science Robotics·Elliot W HawkesMichael T Tolley
Jul 3, 2021·Materials·Haiyan HuYuan Jing
Jan 8, 2021·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces·Chen ShenHuai Yang
Oct 30, 2021·Frontiers in Robotics and AI·Jonas Jørgensen, Mads Bering Christiansen
Nov 19, 2021·Bioinspiration & Biomimetics·Diego R Higueras-RuizMichael Shafer

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