Abstract

The boriding process is a branch of materials heating treatments that studies the improvement of the mechanical properties in steels and alloys. Recently, the borided trends have been studied by a selected group of researchers around the world with an interest to divulge the new results on borided materials for different industrial and biomedical applications. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the historical review of the boriding process using the Bibliometric analysis. In total, 1227 documents in the Scopus database have used the boriding process as keyword with a growth rate of 7.3% every year from 1962 to 2020. The papers were written by around 2434 authors, mainly from Mexico, Turkey, and Poland, representing 37.7% of the total publications analyzed. The data obtained show that the boriding process has been global and fast-growing in the scientific publications of the last ten years.

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中文翻译：

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用文献计量分析对硼化过程的历史回顾

摘要

硼化工艺是材料热处理的一个分支，研究了钢和合金的机械性能的改善。最近，全球范围内的一些研究人员对硼化趋势进行了研究，目的是透露针对不同工业和生物医学应用的硼化材料的新结果。这项研究的目的是使用文献计量分析提供对硼化过程历史回顾的概述。从1962年到2020年，Scopus数据库中总共有1227个文档使用boriding过程作为关键字，并且每年以7.3％的速度增长。这些论文由大约2434位作者撰写，主要来自墨西哥，土耳其和波兰，占37.7。已分析的出版物总数的百分比。

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