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A retrospective view of statistical quality control research and identification of emerging trends: a bibliometric analysis

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This study aims to identify the fundamental contributions on applications of statistical methods in the area of quality and process control, determining lines of research and statistical methods forming the dominant intellectual structure, evolution over time and identifying future tendencies and relationships between the most relevant themes. A quantitative approach linked to bibliometric analysis was used, based on research made in the Thomson/Reuters-ISI online database. Among the main results, it stands out that the importance of statistical applications applied to process and quality control continues to grow. The contributions with greatest impact are related to principal component analysis and multivariate analysis as well as in the area of clinical assessment. Besides multivariate analysis, the dominant techniques are control charts, use of data-mining tools and autocorrelation/time series.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge partial financial support from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia).

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  1. University of Beira Interior, 6200-209, Covilhã, Portugal

    Pedro Veiga

  2. Curva de Gauss – Consulting, 3525-072, Canas de Senhorim, Portugal

    Pedro Veiga

  3. CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, University of Beira Interior, 6200-209, Covilhã, Portugal

    Luis Mendes

  4. NECE Research Center, University of Beira Interior, 6200-209, Covilhã, Portugal

    Luis Lourenço

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Table 2 Number of publications and quotations in the ten scientific journals with most publications
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Table 3 Number of publications in the five scientific journals with most publications in Period 3
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Table 4 Number of publications in the five scientific journals with most publications in Period 4
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Table 5 Number of publications in the five scientific journals with most publications in Period 5
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Table 6 Articles with the greatest number of quotations
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Table 7 Articles with the greatest average number of quotations per year
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Table 8 Articles with the greatest number of quotations (Period 1)
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Table 9 Articles with the greatest number of quotations (Period 2)
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Table 10 Articles with the greatest number of quotations (Period 3)
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Table 11 Articles with the greatest number of quotations (Period 4)
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Table 12 Articles with the greatest number of quotations (Period 5)
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Veiga, P., Mendes, L. & Lourenço, L. A retrospective view of statistical quality control research and identification of emerging trends: a bibliometric analysis. Qual Quant 50, 673–692 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-015-0170-8

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