Visualising and mapping a decade of literature on honey research: a bibliometric analysis from 2011 to 2020

Abstract

Scientific research on honey has grown substantially over the past decades, accumulating more evidence on its role in complementary and alternative medicine. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of honey research from 2011 to 2020 to see the trend of publications in this study area. Based on the keywords used, which are related to honey in the article title, the study retrieved 4,433 documents for further analysis. VOSviewer software was used to create maps based on network data of scientific publications displaying relationships among researchers, countries, and scientific journals. Author keywords were used to explore the co-occurrence of different terms connected to honey research. Results reveal close and strong interconnections between the top authors suggesting a considerable strong research link. The top country researching on honey was the United States, while the top journal was Food Chemistry. In terms of co-occurrence, the top author keywords were “honey”, “antioxidant”, “chemometric”, “Manuka honey” and “antibacterial”. These analyses of the existing work provide a valuable and important reference for researchers and practitioners in honey research communities.

Keywords:

• honey
• Scopus
• bibliometric analysis
• VOSviewer

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.