## 4 Publication Distribution  
Selecting quality research articles is a vital task when writing a survey paper. Not all of the published research articles in any particular domain are high-quality. We selected notable research articles from renowned publishers published in six different time frames, choosing the time frames in such a way that our survey covered the latest research as well as earlier research works in the domains of affinity analysis, biblioming, and technology mining. The readers can see a sequential overview of the works conducted in different time frames in Table 2.  
We selected 29 papers on affinity analysis, 16 papers on biblioming, and 8 papers on technology mining from various publishers, including IEEE, ACM, ScienceDirect, Springer  
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**ID** & **Inclusion Criteria** \\ \hline InC\({}_{1}\) & The article is published in conference proceedings or in a journal. \\ InC\({}_{2}\) & The main contribution(s) of the study focus on affinity analysis, biblioming, or technology mining. \\ InC\({}_{3}\) & The article is published between the year 2000 and December 2021. \\ InC\({}_{4}\) & The article proposes at least one affinity analysis method or applies any affinity analysis method to solve any real-world problem. \\ InC\({}_{5}\) & The article proposes at least one method for biblioming or applies any method to solve any real-world biblioming problem. \\ InC\({}_{6}\) & The article proposes at least one method for technology mining or applies the method to solve any real-world problem related \\  & to technology mining. \\ \hline  & **Exclusion criteria** \\ \hline ExC\({}_{1}\) & The article is a poster, editorial, report, summary, or book review. \\ ExC\({}_{2}\) & The article is not in the English language. \\ ExC\({}_{3}\) & The main focus of the study is not relevant to affinity analysis, biblioming, or technology mining. \\ ExC\({}_{4}\) & The major contribution of the study is unclear. \\ ExC\({}_{5}\) & Duplicate study or article. \\ ExC\({}_{6}\) & The article is unavailable in electronic format. \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Inclusion and exclusion criteria for determining relevant papers.  
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**Before 2005** & **2006–2010** & **2011–2012** & **2013–2015** & **2016–2018** & **2019–Dec 2021** \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [45] & [PERSON] et al. [46] & [PERSON] et al. [47] & [PERSON] et al. [48] & [PERSON] et al. [49] & [PERSON] et al. [50] \\ [PERSON] et al. [16] & [PERSON] et al. [51] & [PERSON] et al. [52] & [PERSON] et al. [53] & [PERSON] et al. [54] & [PERSON] et al. [55] \\ [PERSON] et al. [56] & [PERSON] et al. [57] & [PERSON] et al. [58] & [PERSON] et al. [59] & [PERSON] et al. [60] & [PERSON] et al. [61] \\ [PERSON] et al. [62] & [PERSON] et al. [63] & [PERSON] et al. [64] & [PERSON] et al. [65] & [PERSON] et al. [66] & [PERSON] et al. [67] \\ [PERSON] et al. [68] & [PERSON] et al. [69] & [PERSON] et al. [70] & [PERSON] et al. [25] & [PERSON] et al. [71] & [PERSON] et al. [72] \\ [PERSON] et al. [28] & [PERSON] et al [73] & [PERSON] et al. [23] & [PERSON] et al. [27] & [PERSON] et al. [74] & [PERSON] et al. [75] \\ [PERSON] et al. [22] & [PERSON] [78] & [PERSON] et al. [31] & [PERSON] et al. [76] \\ [PERSON] et al. [77] & [PERSON] [78] & & & & & [79] \\ [PERSON] et al. [80] & [PERSON] et al. [24] & & & & & [79] \\ [PERSON] et al. [82] & [PERSON] et al. [26] & & & & & [78] \\ [PERSON] et al. [83] & [PERSON] et al. [30] & & & & \\ [PERSON] et al. [84] & [PERSON] et al. & & & & \\ [PERSON] et al. [29] & & & & & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Time distributions of the papers considered for review.  
[PERSON], [PERSON], and others. The distributions of the 53 selected publications, according to data sources, are shown in Figure 1.