A Bibliographic and Coauthorship Analysis of IEEE T-ITS Literature Between 2014 and 2016

We present a bibliographic and coauthorship-based collaboration analysis of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) between 2014 and 2016 from the aspects of productivity, topics, citations, usage, and coauthorship networks. The most productive authors, institutions, countries/regions, and the most cited papers, most popular papers, as well as the most frequent topics and their trends are identified and analyzed. Social network methods are employed for revealing collaboration patterns among contributors through author- and institution-level coauthorship. The results show that China is playing a critical role in ITS research during this period but the interinstitution collaborations are less prevalent than it used to be. Overall data have indicated that IEEE T-ITS has made tremendous progress and contributed significantly to the accelerated growth of ITS fields over the last three years.