A Python project to analyse trends in wireless communications research.

The data collection process is shown below.

Meta-data from the following conferences and journals are obtained from the IEEE database.

1. Conferences
   1. European Wireless (EW)
   2. Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
   3. International Conference on Communications (ICC)
   4. International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)
   5. Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
   6. Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring (VTC-Spring)
   7. Vehicular Technology Conference - Fall (VTC-Fall)
   8. Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
   9. World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)
2. Journals
   1. Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
   2. Communications Letters (Letters)
   3. Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
   4. Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)

The citations for each paper are obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. In order to use the API, add your own API ID to the settings.json file. The citations data is then cleaned up and validated using Google Scholar.

The locations of the primary authors of the papers are obtained from the MaxMind world cities database. Any missing data is then obtained from Google.

The code to analyse the data requires pandas, numpy and pandasql. The following metrics are used:

1. Number of publications
2. Number of citations
3. Quality index = Number of citations / Number of publications

The graph below shows the quantity and quality of papers over the years.

The highly cited topics from over the years are shown in the bubble chart below.

The contributions of countries from across the globe can be seen in the map below.

The top 20 countries in terms of number of publications are:

1. USA (13115)
2. China (5900)
3. Canada (3748)
4. South Korea (3671)
5. UK (3206)
6. Germany (2940)
7. Italy (2450)
8. Japan (2356)
9. France (1941)
10. Taiwan (1780)
11. Singapore (1335)
12. Spain (1192)
13. Australia (952)
14. Finland (951)
15. Sweden (835)
16. Greece (666)
17. India (612)
18. Hong Kong (576)
19. Iran (420)
20. Brazil (395)

The top 20 countries in terms of quality are:

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