Prospective in Additive Manufacturing Based on R-Meta-Analysis and Bibliometric Study

Abstract

This work aims to perform a scientific mapping using advanced tools and R libraries to evaluate from a quantitative and qualitative point of view the evolution of the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM). A descriptive analysis of the data will be applied for the creation of attributes that allow its normalization and the visualization of its temporal evolution, as well as the measurement of the impact of the sources and the frequency of publication using Lotka's law. With all this, the weight and importance of AM in the evolution of different fields (materials science, engineering, computer science, etc.) will be established and the trend in research work will be analyzed both quantitatively (evolution of the number of publications in each field, quantitative impact indexes of publications and qualitatively. All this will allow the reader to know, on the one hand, the temporal evolution of advanced in AM, and on the other hand, the reader will be able to have a "still picture" of the current situation that can be taken as references for the prospective analysis of the technique in a complementary way to that provided in business studies.