Scientometric mapping of organic farming research performance in the global perspective during 2010-2019

Abstract

This study covers the pattern of organic farming research performance at the global level. The scientific analysis and outcome citations are used to investigate the scientific representation of the country. This study is conducted based on the output publications in organic farming research during the period 2010 to 2019. A total number of 10704 publication data were collected from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database. BibExcel, Vosviewer, R statistical software, and MS Excel are used for data analysis. The study found different aspects of organic farming research such as increment of publications, document types, prolific authors, network analysis of co-authorship, co-citations of authors, institutions, countries engaged, and source impact of publications. The maximum number of publications was in 2019 with 1413 records, and the minimum number of publications in 2010 with 796 records. The author Lal R has made the highest publications (66). This study indicates the annual scientific production of organic farming, the world perspectives of citation count, collaboration rate, and so on. Researchers have also indicated further research areas using databases such as Scopus, PubMed, and Chemical abstract.

Keywords:

• Organic farming
• Research performance
• Vosviewer
• Scientometric mapping
• Co-authorship
• Co-citation analysis