The Structure and Citation Landscape of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS (1994-2015)

Abstract

The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS (TFS) is a reputable international journal in the research domain of computer science and engineering. This study surveys the TFS publications between 1994 and 2015 which are indexed in Web of Sciences. The purpose is to present a comprehensive overview of the main influencing factors that affect the journal and identify the theme and citation structures of TFS. First of all, the publication and general citation structure of the journal as well as the most cited articles are analyzed. Then, the TFS authorship and coauthorship are well investigated, the maps of author cocitation network and representative subnetwork of the TFS coauthorship are presented. Next, this study gives a global overview of TFS publications. The most influential and productive countries/territories as well as the temporal analysis of the leading countries/territories are presented. Finally, the cocitation network for exploring the ground-breaking research is generated and the main cocitation clusters of TFS publications are discovered.