Scientomeric Evaluation and Visual Aanalytics of the Scientific Literature Production on Bioplastics

Abstract

Incessant use of plastics in the past decades has been a serious issue of environmental concern. The aim of this study is to examine the current status of the bioplastic research field by identifying the key publications or scientific productions, the most productive researchers in terms of publications and citations, latest hotspots (keywords), the countries with the most active research, collaborations between the countries, highly cited journals, highly contributing organizations, and co-cited references with their cluster analysis. This chapter considers whole literature study of bioplastics (i.e., documents published from 1894 to 2021). One thousand eight hundred sixty-three documents were identified using the Scopus database. The largest number of papers published were during the year 2020 with 308 records. Bibliometric analysis shows author “Guerrero, A.” was the highly productive author and USA was the most productive region of the world. The Journal of Polymers and the Environment was the most common outlet for publication.