Research Trends and Thematic Insights from the Most Cited Cybernetics Studies in the Last Ten Years Using Text Mining and Bibliometric Analysis


Damar M., AYDIN A., Takyaci M., Ozkok S., NASİBOĞLU E., AYDIN Ö., ...Daha Fazla

6th International Conference on Problems of Cybernetics and Informatics, PCI 2025, Baku, Azerbaycan, 25 - 28 Ağustos 2025, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/pci66488.2025.11219856
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Baku
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Azerbaycan
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: computer science, cybernetics, machine learning, most cited articles, text mining
  • Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

According to the Web of Science (WoS) bibliometric data source, a total of 201,913 documents have been produced in all years, and 93,836 in the last decade, in the field of Computer Science and Cybernetics. 29,113 relevant documents are classified as research articles. In this study, the 1,000 most cited research articles from the past decade in the Computer Science and Cybernetics field were analyzed using text mining methods and bibliometric tools. The analysis aims to evaluate the topics that have received significant attention in this field over the past ten years and to identify prominent subject headings for researchers, using advanced text mining techniques. In addition to traditional bibliometric analysis, a more in-depth thematic classification was performed using machine learning-based text mining techniques. The data were obtained from high-impact bibliometric sources such as Web of Science on 15/05/2025, in plain text and Excel formats. The top three countries in terms of publication volume in this field are China (80.90%), the USA (16.30%), and Australia (12.80%). The leading institutions include the Chinese Academy of Sciences (f=91, 9.10%), the Ministry of Education of China (f =73,7.30%), and Guangdong University of Technology (f=59, 5.90%). The two journals publishing the highest number of the top 1,000 cited works are IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (53.00%) and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (29.70%).. Apart from Cybernetics, the most closely associated research areas were Automation and Control Systems (f=827,82.70%), Computer Science-Artificial Intelligence (f=599,59.90%), and Ergonomics (f=64,6.40%).