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title = "A statistic review of computer-aided process planning research",
abstract = "Since the late 1970's, computer-aided process planning (CAPP) has attracted a large amount of research interest, which has led to a huge volume of literature published on this subject. The literature encompasses both reviews and research articles. The review articles are mostly technologically oriented. This paper takes a different angle to look back the CAPP research, that is, a statistic approach. The paper analyses the journals that have been publishing CAPP research works. The concept of {"}Subject Strength{"} of a journal is introduced and used to gauge the level of focus of a journal on a particular research subject/domain, i.e. CAPP. Discussions about the recent CAPP research works are presented in different categories as they fall in. The term {"}Technology Impact Factor (TIF){"} is introduced to assess the level of impact of a particular technology, in terms of citation counts. All discussions and analyses are carried out based on the data gathered from the Elsevier's Scopus abstract and citation database. Finally, a discussion on the future development is presented. The literature suggests that this is the only review article of the similar nature in the first decade of the century.",
author = "Jin Mao and Xun Xu and Lihui Wang and Stephen Newman",
note = "ASME 2010 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2010. 12-15 October 2010. Erie, PA, United States.; ASME 2010 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2010, October 12, 2010 - October 15, 2010 ; Conference date: 01-01-2010",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
volume = "2",
series = "ASME 2010 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2010",
publisher = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)",
pages = "513--531",
booktitle = "ASME 2010 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2010",
address = "USA United States",
}