Unmanned underwater vehicle: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The swift development in the field of artificial intelligence, solid states electronics and nanotechnologies has been the driving force in the innovative designs of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). Based on this, the need for bibliometric analysis of the influential articles, journals, universities/institutes, countries and authors has become paramount. Therefore, 548 publications related to Unmanned Underwater Vehicles were extracted from the web of science that spans over the period 1986 to 2019. The results indicate a steady rise in the yearly UUV research publications with 2018 having the highest (54), but 2019 is still counting. A total of 1383 authors published the entire articles with Caccia M having the highest number of UUV publications of 28 articles which is 5.109% of the total.