2022/01/06 by Tsubasa Ichikawa, Ichikawa, Tsubasa
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Bibliographic coupling #Citation #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Computation #Computer science #FOS: Physical sciences #Library science #Physics #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum algorithm #Quantum computer #Quantum mechanics #Qubit #Theoretical computer science #physics.soc-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.01911
13 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables
arxiv created 2022/01/06 · openalex publication_date 2022/01/06 · arxiv updated 2022/01/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a bibliometric analysis of the research papers on quantum computation and quantum algorithms published in 1985-2020. We identify three distinct periods from the trend of the annual number of published papers, and show the 20 top contributing countries in each period in terms of the number of publications and the number of total citations. The bibliographic coupling network of the publications in the latest period is characterized as a dense, small-world network with a small diameter, which contains 14 large communities, whose topics are the fabrication of qubits in various physical systems, studies of the quantum algorithms, and other related topics. Quantum machine learning, one of the emerging topics in quantum computation, is found to be the fifth-largest independent community.