A bibliometric studyabout unconventional food plants

Abstract

Data on unconventional food plants (UFP's) are still scarce in the literature, however the aim of this study is to identifythe papers published on unconventional food plants, which topics have been studied over the years, and which countries stand out for research, through the bibliometric analysis tools. A search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) database, the dataset of 25 retrieved articles published between 2008, and March 16, 2022 was analyzed using VOSviewer and the Bibliometrix R package. Brazil was the country with the highest number of publications and the ten most cited articles worldwide are all by Brazilians. The co-occurrence map with the keywords generated six main clusters. Despite the benefits studied, there are few papers on UFP's. Bibliographic mapping offers the possibility of obtaining a large amount of bibliographic information, making it more manageable, objective and practical to serve scientific policy makers, institutions and research managers.