3DCP.fyi - A Comprehensive Citation Network Graph on the State of the Art in 3D Concrete Printing

Research in digital fabrication, specifically in 3D concrete printing (3DCP), has seen a substantial increase in publication output in the past five years, making it hard to keep up with the latest developments. The 3dcp.fyi database aims to provide the research community with a comprehensive, up-to-date, and manually curated literature dataset documenting the development of the field from its early beginnings in the late 1990s to its resurgence in the 2010s until today. The data set is compiled using a systematic approach. A thorough literature search was conducted in scientific databases, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) scheme. This was then enhanced iteratively with non-indexed literature through a snowball citation search. The authors of the articles were assigned unique and persistent identifiers (ORCID® IDs) through a systematic process that combined querying APIs systematically and manually curating data. The works in the data set also include references to other works, as long as those referenced works are also included within the same data set. A citation network graph is created where scientific articles are represented as vertices, and their citations to other scientific articles are the edges. The constructed network graph is subjected to detailed analysis using specific graph-theoretic algorithms, like PageRank. These algorithms evaluate the structure and connections within the graph, yielding quantitative metrics. Currently, the high-quality dataset contains more than 2600 manually curated scientific works, including journal articles, conference articles, books, and theses, with more than 40000 cross-references and 2000 authors, opening up the possibility for more detailed analysis. The data is published on https://3dcp.fyi, ready for import into several reference managers, and is continuously updated. We encourage researchers to enrich the database by submitting their publications, adding missing works, or suggesting new features.