Academic Insights and Perspectives: Cellular Automata and Production Scheduling

Table 2

The top 20 prevalent research areas in cellular automata algorithm during 1984–2020.

Rank	Research area	TA	TC	ACPP	TPR (%)	Most active country	Number of documents (%)
1	Computer Science	544	10665	19.60	17.55	China	215 (39.52%)
2	Engineering	418	6034	14.44	13.49	China	155 (37.08%)
3	Computer Science, Theory and Methods	398	2569	6.45	12.84	USA	36 (9.05%)
4	Mathematics	283	5862	20.71	9.13	USA	86 (30.39%)
5	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence	281	1181	4.20	9.07	Iran	29 (10.32%)
6	Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications	276	1634	5.92	8.91	USA	26 (9.42%)
7	Engineering, Electrical and Electronic	262	1932	7.37	8.45	USA	32 (12.21%)
8	Physics, Mathematical	178	2585	14.52	5.74	USA	31 (17.42%)
9	Materials Science, Multidisciplinary	153	3178	20.77	4.94	China	31 (20.26%)
10	Computer Science, Information Systems	149	861	5.78	4.81	China	24 (16.11%)
11	Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications	144	559	3.88	4.65	USA	15 (10.42%)
12	Physics, Multidisciplinary	142	2343	16.50	4.58	USA	17 (11.97%)
13	Mathematics, Applied	133	1349	10.14	4.29	USA	14 (10.53%)
14	Computer Science, Software Engineering	113	513	4.54	3.65	USA	11 (9.73%)
15	Computer Science, Hardware and Architecture	103	643	6.24	3.32	USA	11 (10.68%)
16	Physics, Applied	87	1107	12.72	2.81	USA	10 (11.49%)
17	Engineering, Multidisciplinary	76	306	4.03	2.45	China	9 (11.84%)
18	Geography, Physical	72	1231	17.10	2.32	China	23 (31.94%)
19	Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering	72	2047	28.43	2.32	China	20 (27.78%)
20	Geography	72	1019	14.15	2.32	China	24 (33.33%)

TA: total articles; TC: total citations; ACPP: average citations per publication; TPR%: the percentage of articles of areas in total articles.