# Ergonomics Evaluation Using Motion Capture Technology--Literature Review
## 3 Research Results
It can be stated that the most significant database up to 2016 was Google Scholar but, from this year, more publications on motion capture in ergonomics started to appear on Web of Science and Scopus databases. It is interesting to see the total number of publications by country of origin of the main author of the publication. The graph below, see Figure 7, shows the highest number of publications coming from the United States, followed by other countries, such as Italy, Germany, and China. Most publications are produced in industrialised countries with high technical development and significant research facilities. The qualitative assessment of scientific publications in the range defined by the research query also includes a comparison of the most successful publications and their authors in terms of the number of citations. The most cited publications deal with analyses of motion capture technologies in combination with Kinect [64; 65]. Other publications, slightly less cited but more recent, deal specifically with the use of sensor reading, e.g., MoCap technology for ergonomics evaluation. In some cases, this evaluation is also applied to a case study of the workplace. A comparison of the cited publications with the number of citations, main author, and year of publication can be seen in the table, see Table 1.  
Figure 5: Published scientific articles and conference papers in WoS, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases by period. Source: own processing. Figure 6: Development of publications per database in the study period. Source: own processing. \begin{table}
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**Author** & **Number of** & **Title of Publication** & **Year** \\  & **Citations** & & \\ \hline [PERSON] & 442 & Comparative abilities of Microsoft Kinect and Vicon 3D motion capture for gait analysis [64] & 2014 \\ \hline [PERSON] & 261 & Evaluation of the Kinect (TM) sensor for 3-D kinematic measurement in the workplace [65] & 2012 \\ \hline [PERSON] & 205 & An evaluation of the 30-s chair stand test in older adults: frailty detection based on kinematic parameters from a single inertial unit [66] & 2013 \\ \hline [PERSON] & 195 & An adaptive gyroscope-based algorithm for temporal gait analysis [67] & 2010 \\ \hline [PERSON] & 189 & In vivo evaluation of wearable head impact sensors [68] & 2016 \\ \hline [PERSON] & 180 & Data fusion of real-time location sensing and physiological status monitoring for ergonomics analysis of construction workers [69] & 2013 \\ \hline [PERSON] & 179 & Wearable inertial sensors for human movement analysis [37] & 2016 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Most cited publications and their authors by number of citations. Source: own processing. Figure 7: Number of national publications by country of authors’ origin. Source: own processing. Another indicator of qualitative evaluation is the analysis of publications or their publication in periodicals. This comparison is used to provide information on which field and which sources or journals contain the highest number of publications in the research area. Below, in Table 2, are the periodicals with the highest number of publications in the studied field.