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Table 3 First list of important research directions

From: Bibliometric mining of research directions and trends for big data

Thesaurus keywords

Number of docs

Growth rate

Citation count

Sum of ranks

ta i

Rank

gr i

Rank

cc i

Rank

1. Machine learning

13 716

0

37 469

1

189 329

0

1

2. Internet of things

9 045

4

24 434

3

154 725

1

8

3. Data mining

12 709

1

13 289

10

144 045

2

13

4. Cloud computing

11 323

2

12 634

12

142 712

3

17

5. Artificial intelligence

7 602

8

62 970

0

82 644

11

19

6. Healthcare

7 616

7

16 808

8

119 472

5

20

7. Deep learning

6 415

11

24 231

4

102 029

6

21

8. Security and privacy

10 165

3

12 300

13

101 813

7

23

9. Review

5 177

12

16 654

9

139 208

4

25

10. Neural networks

7 403

9

17 831

7

88 398

10

26

11. Manufacturing

4 707

13

18 734

6

92 269

9

28

12. Smart cities

3 053

16

5 402

31

51 501

14

61