TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping the landscape of ship berthing research
T2 - A bibliometric analysis and literature review over two decades
AU - Han, Diao
AU - Chen, Houzhong
AU - Song, Guobin
AU - Yip, Tsz Leung
AU - Wu, Bing
N1 - Funding Information:
This work supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51920105014 , 52071248 , and 52272422 ), Hubei Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2021CFB312 ), and Innovation and entrepreneurship team import project of Shaoguan city ( 201212176230928 ).
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PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - Ship berthing is a challenging task in maritime transportation. To date, there is still a lack of bibliometric analysis to summarize the contributions on this topic. This paper aims to fill the gap of visualization mapping on ship berthing. Consequently, 233 publications were collected from Web of Science database during 2000–2022, and the co-authorship network, authors co-citation network, keywords co-occurrence network, and sources citation network were analyzed by utilizing VOSviewer software. In addition, this paper examines the growth tendencies of publications and the contributions of scientific articles. The results of the analysis indicate that “automatic berthing” is the major hot topic, and suggest potential future directions for research. This paper provides practical and useful guidance for scholars in the field to explore future research hotspots, identify current limitations, and promote the development of ship berthing.
AB - Ship berthing is a challenging task in maritime transportation. To date, there is still a lack of bibliometric analysis to summarize the contributions on this topic. This paper aims to fill the gap of visualization mapping on ship berthing. Consequently, 233 publications were collected from Web of Science database during 2000–2022, and the co-authorship network, authors co-citation network, keywords co-occurrence network, and sources citation network were analyzed by utilizing VOSviewer software. In addition, this paper examines the growth tendencies of publications and the contributions of scientific articles. The results of the analysis indicate that “automatic berthing” is the major hot topic, and suggest potential future directions for research. This paper provides practical and useful guidance for scholars in the field to explore future research hotspots, identify current limitations, and promote the development of ship berthing.
KW - Automatic berthing
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Literature review
KW - Ship berthing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106730
DO - 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106730
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85163925588
SN - 0964-5691
VL - 242
JO - Ocean and Coastal Management
JF - Ocean and Coastal Management
M1 - 106730
ER -