Bibliometric analysis of traceability in agri-food research

Abstract

Traceability in agri-food has become an important aspect of consumer awareness that demand foods that are available, in good quality, healthy, and traceable in handling processes. This field has also become the focus of the study among the related scientists. We used bibliometric analysis to review the published traceability of agri-food papers. The analysis using a query from the Scopus website to see the importance of this field to research. Our web search covers publication from 1998 to 2018, and we found 67 articles published on this query, and 31 papers include the query using the keyword 'food safety'. The authors of these articles are mostly from developed countries. Although somewhat fluctuated, the number of documents tends to increase with time to indicate that this field is growing.