A Bibliometric Study Based on ESI: Taking Material Science as Example

This paper makes a bibliometric study of the articles on material science in ESI with a special emphasis on the distribution of countries, institutions, journals and scientists of high productivity and impact. It also analyzes the journals and scientists with highly cited papers and hot papers on material science. Finally, the co-citation analysis on the highly cited authors is conducted by SPSS so as to provide the hotspots and scientists´ clusters on material science in recent 11 years. And some conclusions are got in this study.