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Table 8 Top 20 highest frequency of author keywords used (from 1980 to 2015)

From: A bibliometric approach to tracking big data research trends

Author keyword

1980–2015 TP

1980–1999 TP (%)

2000–2009 TP (%)

2010–2015 TP (%)

Machine learning

757

48 (0.06)

304 (0.40)

405 (0.53)

MapReduce

514

N/A

24 (0.04)

490 (0.95)

Data warehouse(s)/warehousing

353

11 (0.03)

215 (0.60)

127 (0.35)

Big data

292

N/A

N/A

292 (1)

Hadoop

236

N/A

5 (0.02)

231 (0.97)

Cloud computing

232

N/A

4 (0.01)

228 (0.98)

Data center(s)

232

N/A

40 (0.17)

192 (0.82)

Data mining

181

4 (0.02)

80 (0.44)

97 (0.53)

Support vector machine(s)

180

N/A

64 (0.35)

116 (0.64)

Sentiment analysis

147

N/A

6 (0.04)

141 (0.95)

Classification(s)/classifier(s)

112

4 (0.03)

53 (0.47)

55 (0.49)

Neural network(s)

85

9 (0.10)

41 (0.48)

35 (0.41)

Performance

84

N/A

14 (0.16)

70 (0.83)

Energy efficiency

84

N/A

4 (0.04)

80 (0.95)

Online analytic(al) processing (OLAP)

77

N/A

47 (0.61)

30 (0.38)

Virtualization

64

N/A

14 (0.21)

50 (0.78)

Feature selection

57

N/A

28 (0.49)

29 (0.50)

Cluster/clustering

54

2 (0.03)

16 (0.29)

36 (0.66)

Opinion mining

59

N/A

5 (0.10)

44 (0.89)

Scheduling

47

N/A

5 (0.10)

42 (0.89)

  1. TP: total number of publications,  %: the percentage of keywords over total number of records