Composite materials are a vital subject in the field of materials science. Currently, composite materials are used in multiple sectors, including aerospace, automotive, medical, building, defense, furniture, electronics, energy, and sports. The Scopus database was used for bibliometric analysis, based on the term {composite materials}. The following returned the most search results in their respective categories: year, 2019; source, Journal of Applied Polymer Science; author, Hamada, H.; affiliation, Ministry of Education of China; country, China; document type, article; scientific area, materials science; and funding support, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Composites combine two or more constituent materials with different physical or chemical properties to produce a new material. Composite materials include the following: polymer matrix composites, metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, nanocomposites, biocomposites, wood composites, green composites, hybrid composites, cellulose composites, etc. [1,2,3,4].
Bibliometric analysis was used in the Scopus database to search for the documents. Using the term {composite materials}, TITLE-ABS-KEY ({composite materials}), 215682 documents were identified on November 23, 2024. The number of documents returned by category can be seen in Table 1. The table includes the top ten positions for the following categories: year, source, author, affiliation, country, document type, scientific area, and funding support.
The following returned the most search results in their respective categories: year, 2019 (10036), followed by 2018 (9731) and 2017 (9335); source, Journal of Applied Polymer Science (3747) followed by Proceedings of SPIE (3060) and Composite Structures (2590); author, Hamada, H. (204), followed by Chamis, C.C. (173) and Gu, B. (172); affiliation, Ministry of Education of China (4758), followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences (3632) and Russia Academy of Sciences (2581); country, China (48519), followed by USA (37152) and India (13800); document type, article (146731), followed by conference paper (54142) and review (6861); scientific area, materials science (133428), followed by engineering (128315) and physics and astronomy (55683); and funding support, National Natural Science Foundation of China (16256), followed by Ministry of Education of China (3611) and Nacional Science Foundation (2722).
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J. Paulo Davim is an editorial board member for AIMS Materials Science and was not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article. The author declares no conflict of interest.
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