A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Fractional Programming (1965–2020)

Mehdi Toloo, Rouhollah Khodabandelou and Amar Oukil
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Mehdi Toloo: Department of Business Transformation, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
Rouhollah Khodabandelou: Department of Instructional & Learning Technologies, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat P.O. Box 50, Oman
Amar Oukil: Department of Operations Management & Business Statistics, College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat P.O. Box 50, Oman

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-21

Abstract: Fractional programming (FP) refers to a family of optimization problems whose objective function is a ratio of two functions. FP has been studied extensively in economics, management science, information theory, optic and graph theory, communication, and computer science, etc. This paper presents a bibliometric review of the FP-related publications over the past five decades in order to track research outputs and scholarly trends in the field. The reviews are conducted through the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) database of the Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics). Based on the bibliometric analysis of 1811 documents, various theme-related research indicators were described, such as the most prominent authors, the most commonly cited papers, journals, institutions, and countries. Three research directions emerged, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, and Applied Mathematics.

Keywords: fractional programming; literature review; bibliometric analysis; visualization; mapping network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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