A bibliometric analysis and visualisation of research trends in Carbon Reinforced Plastics

Carbon Reinforced Plastics/polymers are metamaterials, widely used for diversified purposes for their unique features. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Carbon Reinforced Plastics”. All published articles related to “Carbon Reinforced Plastics” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding the “Carbon Reinforced Plastics” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain were Mechanics of Composite Materials, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, and Applied Mechanics Reviews. The most active countries were China, Japan, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. The leading organizations engaged in the research regarding Carbon Reinforced Plastics were the University of Tokyo of Japan, the Russian Academy of Sciences of Russia, and the Ministry of Education of China. The most active authors who had made valuable contributions related to Carbon Reinforced Plastics were Yates B. Davim J.P. Reis P. and Ishikawa T.