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Global Research Trends in Food Security: Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of over 500 publications on food security, revealing a significant increase in scholarly interest over the past decade. Key research themes included climate change, sustainable agriculture, and the intersection of food systems with environmental contaminants. The analysis maps the evolving landscape of food security research and identifies emerging areas of focus for future study.

2025 International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science 1 citations
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Research Trends and Hotspots in Food Bank: A Visualization Analysis Using CiteSpace

Researchers used CiteSpace bibliometric software to analyze 1,000 food bank publications from 2012 to 2022, finding consistent annual growth in research output and identifying key clusters around food scarcity, food safety, sustainable development, and performance evaluation. The analysis revealed that while a distinct core author group exists, collaborations remain largely localized with a low overall degree of cooperation.

2024 Sustainability 1 citations
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Mapping the Evolution of the European Union Retail Supply Chain Technology Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

This bibliometric analysis mapped how supply chain management technology research in the EU retail sector has evolved, identifying emerging trends and contributions. Digital supply chain tools can improve plastic waste tracking and support circular economy transitions.

2023 Frontiers in Management Science
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A Brief Bibliometric Analysis of Microplastic and Nanoplastic Particles in Food

This bibliometric analysis mapped the scientific literature on microplastic and nanoplastic particles in food, identifying publication trends, key research institutions, dominant topics, and knowledge gaps from 2000 to the time of analysis. The study found rapidly growing research interest in food-borne microplastics, with hotspots in seafood contamination and analytical method development.

2024
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Vertical Farming as Remedy to Boost Food Security: A Bibliometric Viewpoint

This bibliometric analysis examined 484 research documents on vertical farming and food security from 1992-2023 using Web of Science data, identifying key authors, leading nations, affiliations, journal outlets, and trending topics across the research domain.

2025 OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences
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Bibliometric Analysis of the Blockchain Scientific Evolution: 2014–2020

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of blockchain research publications from 2014 to 2020, mapping the scientific evolution of the field, identifying dominant research themes, and tracing how research focus has shifted across this period of rapid technological and scholarly development.

2021 IEEE Access 31 citations
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Trends and Gaps in Sustainable Fashion Research: a Bibliometric Analysis

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 764 sustainable and fast fashion articles published between 2007 and March 2025 using Web of Science, applying co-citation, co-occurrence, and clustering techniques to map thematic trends, finding rapid research growth after 2015 and accelerated output post-2020 across environmental science, business, consumer studies, and textile engineering.

2025 Fibres and Textiles
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Microplastics and nanoplastics in global food webs: A bibliometric analysis (2009–2019)

This bibliometric analysis examined 330 publications on microplastics and nanoplastics in global food webs published between 2009 and 2019, finding a dramatic increase in research output since 2013 and identifying key journals, funding patterns, and interdisciplinary research trends in the field.

2020 Marine Pollution Bulletin 100 citations
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Microplastics in Aquaculture: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on Web of Science Data

This bibliometric analysis of Web of Science publications on microplastics in aquaculture mapped the growth of research output, key contributing countries and institutions, dominant research themes, and trends in how concern about microplastic contamination in farmed seafood has evolved over time.

2025 ACADEMICIA An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Soil Pollution due to Microplastics

This bibliometric analysis reviewed the scientific literature on soil microplastic pollution to map research trends, key contributors, and knowledge gaps. The study found growing global research interest in this area and highlighted that microplastics entering the food chain through contaminated soil represents an underappreciated pathway to human exposure.

2020 Insecta mundi 2 citations
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research on marine plastic pollution – A bibliometric-based assessment

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of marine plastic pollution research from 2015 to 2022 and found that while the COVID-19 pandemic initially disrupted international collaboration, it also spurred new research on pandemic-related plastic waste entering the marine environment.

2022 Marine Policy 23 citations
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Nexus Between Sarcopenia and Microbiome Research: A Bibliometric Exploration

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of the intersection between sarcopenia and microbiome research, analyzing 997 articles from the Science Citation Index Extended Database to map scientific production, international collaboration networks, and emerging research hotspots in this growing field.

2024 Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 1 citations
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Scientific Trends in Animal Waste and Environmental Sustainability: A Bibliometric Study

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 33,887 academic studies on the environmental effects of animal waste to reveal trends in publication distribution, research collaborations, and emerging topics. The study mapped the global landscape of animal waste and environmental sustainability research, identifying leading countries, journals, and keyword clusters that reflect the field's evolution toward circular economy and pollution mitigation approaches.

2025
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The Impact of Climate Change on the Failure of Water Supply Infrastructure: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Current State of Knowledge

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on how climate change affects the reliability and failure rates of water supply infrastructure. The study identified key research trends, major contributing countries, and the interconnection between climate-related stressors and water system failures. Evidence indicates that rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are increasingly threatening the integrity of water distribution networks.

2024 Water 18 citations
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The landscape of public procurement research: a bibliometric analysis and topic modelling based on Scopus

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis and topic modeling of public procurement research published between 1984 and 2022, examining 640 journal articles by over 1,200 authors. The study maps the structure and dynamics of the public procurement knowledge domain and identifies key research themes and trends over nearly four decades of scholarship.

2023 Journal of Public Procurement 88 citations
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Global Research Trends on Nanoplastics in Food: A Bibliometric Analysis of Human Health Concerns

A bibliometric analysis of Scopus-indexed publications from 2015 to 2024 examined global research trends on nanoplastics in food and human health. Publications increased sharply after 2019, with China as the top contributor, and identified gut toxicity, food packaging, and seawater contamination as the most active research clusters.

2025 Foods
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A Bibliometric perspective on the evolution of research in sludge management: Opportunities and challenges

A bibliometric analysis traced the evolution of research on a specific topic related to microplastics, mapping publication trends, leading authors, and emerging themes over time. Bibliometric studies help identify where the field is growing and where knowledge gaps remain to be filled.

2025 International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies 1 citations
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Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis — a large-scale study of scientific publication trends — to map how the scientific community responded to COVID-19 in environmental research fields. The most common topics included air quality impacts, mental health effects, and economic consequences of the pandemic, with China, the USA, and Italy producing the most publications.

2020 Environment Development and Sustainability 53 citations
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Global Research Trends on the Use of Nanotechnology to Boost Meat Production: A Scientometric Analysis

This scientometric analysis of 656 peer-reviewed articles from 1985-2020 examined global research trends on nanotechnology applications in meat production, mapping collaboration networks, identifying knowledge gaps, and finding peak output in 2020.

2022 Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 11 citations
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A bibliometric analysis of global research hotspots and progress on microplastics in soil‒plant systems

This bibliometric analysis reviews the rapidly growing field of research on microplastics in soil and plant systems. Researchers identified key research hotspots including how microplastics affect agricultural productivity and enter the food chain through crops. The study provides a roadmap of current knowledge and points to critical gaps in understanding the long-term effects of microplastic contamination on agricultural ecosystems.

2023 Environmental Pollution 17 citations
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A bibliometric analysis of climate change risk perception: Hot spots, trends and improvements

A bibliometric analysis of 4,429 articles on climate change risk perception identified major research themes, leading authors, institutions, and trending topics from 1990 to the present. The analysis showed rapid growth in this field after 2015 and identified gaps in research from lower-income countries and on social media-mediated risk communication.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 12 citations
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A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace

This bibliometric analysis used CiteSpace and VOSviewer to map soil microplastics research published from 2013–2024 in the Web of Science, identifying key research clusters, institutional contributors, and emerging themes including microplastic-antibiotic resistance interactions and soil food web effects.

2025 ArXiv.org
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COVID-19 and the emerging research trends in environmental studies: a bibliometric evaluation

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 495 environmental science publications from the COVID-19 pandemic era, identifying key research trends including environmental quality assessment, increased chemical disinfectant exposure, worsening solid waste management, and strategies for post-pandemic urban planning. The study maps how the pandemic reshaped environmental research priorities and revealed both temporary environmental improvements and new pollution challenges.

2021 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27 citations
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The Emergence of Bioplastic as a Sustainable Polymer in the Indian Food Packaging Industry: A Scientometric Analysis

Researchers conducted a scientometric analysis of research on bioplastics as a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics in the Indian food packaging industry, mapping publication trends, key research themes, and the growing global policy and scientific attention toward bioplastic adoption.

2023 Journal of Data Science Informetrics and Citation Studies 3 citations