Análise e panorama bibliométrico dos estudos com têxteis técnicos entre 2014-2023 utilizando a ferramenta Vosviewer©

Abstract

Technical textiles are recognized for having their manufacturing purpose, their technical properties and performance linked, distancing themselves from purely aesthetic or decorative properties. They have wide versatility and a huge area of application, such as: Agrotech, Buildtech, Clothtech, GeoTech, Hometech, Indutech, Medtech, Mobiltech, Oekotech, Packtech, Protech and Sporttech. Its study is of fundamental importance within the textile area, as research on the subject is growing excessively, providing greater consumption and dissemination in different areas. In this sense, this work sought to map and analyze the topic through bibliometric analysis based on performance analysis and scientific mapping focused on the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The performance analysis aims to quantitatively understand the number of publications in the period 2014-2023 within the aspects of institutions, journals, countries and authors. The scientific mapping was assisted by the VOSviewer© software with the aim of understanding the relationships of citation, co-authorship and co-occurrence of keywords and, therefore, provisioning the area. Promoting the mapping of an extremely relevant topic is crucial to raising the level of understanding, since reading and interpreting the data elucidates all the nuances present. In general, an increase in scientific production on this topic was observed. Categorically, the basic contributions of this study permeate the materialization of the mapping of the proposed study; elucidation of the main bibliometric indicators (number of articles published per year, authors' productivity, most cited authors, most used keywords, most productive countries and institutions, as well as number of publications per journal).