The Landscape of Academic Literature in Quantum Technologies

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Title: The Landscape of Academic Literature in Quantum Technologies

Speaker: Zeki Seskir, Ph.D. candidate in Physics at METU, Ankara

Abstract: In this study, we investigated the academic literature on quantum technologies (QT) using bibliometric tools.

We used a set of 49,823 articles obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database using a search query constructed through expert opinion. Analysis of this revealed that QT is deeply rooted in physics, and the majority of the articles are published in physics journals.

Keyword analysis revealed that the literature could be clustered into three distinct sets, which are (i) quantum communication/cryptography, (ii) quantum computation, and (iii) physical realizations of quantum systems. We performed a burst analysis that showed the emergence and fading away of certain key concepts in the literature. This is followed by co-citation analysis on the highly cited articles provided by the WoS, using these we devised a set of core corpus of 34 publications.

Comparing the most highly cited articles in this set with respect to the initial set we found that there is a clear difference in most cited subjects. Finally, we performed co-citation analyses on country and organization levels to find the central nodes in the literature. Overall, the analyses of the datasets allowed us to cluster the literature into three distinct sets, construct the core corpus of the academic literature in QT, and to identify the key players on country and organization levels, thus offering insight into the current state of the field. Search queries and access to figures are provided in the appendix.

CV/Bio: Zeki Seskir received his M.Sc. degrees in Physics (2015), and Science and Technology Policy Studies (2019), and is a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at METU, Ankara. His research interests include quantum networks, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum education, quantum games, technology assessment, science and technology studies, and societal impact of quantum technologies. He is a member of Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

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