Exploring Biblioshiny for Historical Assessment of Global Research on Sustainable Use of Water in Agriculture

Ejovi Akpojevwe Abafe, Yonas Bahta and Henry Jordaan ()
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Ejovi Akpojevwe Abafe: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Henry Jordaan: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 17, 1-34

Abstract: There are quite a lot of studies from global and regional perspectives that touch on sustainable water use in agriculture. As a result, we explored Biblioshiny to review the scholarly research on the sustainable use of water in agriculture. Using data analysis and visualization technique of 4106 documents authored by 12,686 scholars in 724 journals published between 1990 and 2022, we find that research on this topic gained momentum in 2007 and has followed a steady increase with an annual growth rate of ~16.12%. The results of the co-occurrence network mappings highlight five trendy topics in research on sustainable water use in agriculture, which were categorized based on five (5) Word Minimum Frequency and Number of Words per Year. These topics include the AquaCrop model, Agroforestry, Biochar, No-tillage, and Diet. While renowned journals such as Agricultural Water Management, followed by Sustainability and Water, have taken leading roles in pushing research on sustainable water use in agriculture. Regarding the impact of perspective, in terms of institutional affiliation and countries, we found that the top three most prominent affiliated institutions producing publications allied to research on the sustainable use of water in agriculture are Northwest A&F University in Xianyang, China, China Agricultural University, and Hohai University in Nanjing, China, while the top three countries are China, the USA, and Australia, accounting for 45,039 (43.4%) of the total 103,900 global citations. The study’s findings can be helpful to scholars in presenting an overview of the literature on the sustainable use of water in agriculture.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; Web of Science; sustainable use of water; agriculture; irrigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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