Bibliometric analysis of academic literature on quantum information processing

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The milestones are reviewed and a bibliometric analysis of the research development in the field of quantum information processing in 1990–2020 is performed. The focus is on the global publication of research papers, productivity of certain countries and organizations, and international scientific cooperation. By means of bibliometric indicators, the following areas are considered: dynamic development of the area, a high concentration degree of research and international academic networking, participation of large-scale corporations in such networks along with the universities and academic institutions, especially from Japan and military research entities, primarily from the USA. Russia is characterized by the following: a high concentration of research in the metropolitan agglomerations and its significant internationalization; significant contribution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the growing role of universities in the development of the scientific base of quantum technologies, as well as the still weak involvement of the Russian commercial sector in the research activities. The data sources for analysis have been the bibliographic databases: Web of Science Core Collection and SCOPUS.

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Aleksander I. Terekhov

Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences”

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Email: photonics@technosphera.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0266-1606

Ph.D. in physical and mathematical science, leading researcher

Russian Federation, Moscow

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2. Fig. 1. Number of the QIP publications in the WCC and SCO databases (solid lines) and their share in the total number of “quantum” publications (dashed lines): changes by year

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3. Рис. 2. Доля КОИ в общем количестве «квантовых» публикаций: для мира и разных стран по годам (БД WCC)

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4. Fig. 3. The ratio of publications devoted to the nanotechnology (NANO) and quantum technologies (QT) in 2000–2022 (according to the SCOPUS database)

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5. Fig. 4. Publication contribution of the top ten countries, 1990–2020

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6. Fig. 5. Publication contribution of two groups of countries: the top ten and two leaders (the USA and China)

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7. Fig. 6. The most productive organizations in the field of QIP, 1990–2020

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8. Fig. 7. Column diagram: distribution of countries with the number of QIP publications >10 by the share of publications with international co-authorship

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9. Fig. 8. Percentage of Chinese publications compared to the USA level (100%)

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10. Fig. 9. Changes in the share of all and QIP publications with the participation of scientists from the Center (Moscow and Saint-Petersburg agglomerations) and the remaining part of Russia

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