ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Authors

  • Sławomir Francik University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty o Production and Power Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Agrophysics (PL)
  • Adrian Knapczyk University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty o Production and Power Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Agrophysics (PL)
  • Jarosław Frączek University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty o Production and Power Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Agrophysics (PL)
  • Zbigniew Ślipek University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty o Production and Power Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Agrophysics (PL)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/etr2019vol2.4169

Keywords:

agricultural engineering, bibliometric analysis, biosystems engineering, research trends

Abstract

Nowadays it is necessary to define actual global research trends in disciplines in order to determine the major research topics, discoveries and global scientific networks. The goal of the work was to determine the main topics and research trends in agricultural engineering. For this caser he method of modified bibliometric analysis was applied. Such analysis of the keywords frequency occurrence and the links between the keywords in Biosystems Engineering Journal shows that in the three analysed periods, certain keywords invariably remain dominant. These are “model”, “system” or “systems”, “temperature” and “water”. The highest number of publications was qualified for the CIGR section: Information Technology. It can be, therefore, stated that in the recent period the most intensively developing researches were dedicated to the application of IT tools in creation various types of models, allowing to simulate and optimize agricultural processes. A majority of publications covered decision-making support (Decision Support Systems), image analysis application, and automation of agricultural processes.

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Published

2019-06-20

Issue

Vol. 2 (2019): Environment. Technology. Resources. Proceedings of the 12th International Scientific and Practical Conference. Volume 2

Section

Information Technologies

How to Cite

[1]
S. Francik, A. Knapczyk, J. Frączek, and Z. Ślipek, “ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING”, ETR, vol. 2, pp. 44–50, Jun. 2019, doi: 10.17770/etr2019vol2.4169.