How Did Research on Conservation Agriculture Evolve over the Years? A Bibliometric Analysis

Subhradip Bhattacharjee, Amitava Panja, Moumita Panda, Subham Dutta, Susanta Dutta, Rakesh Kumar (), Dinesh Kumar, Malu Ram Yadav, Tatiana Minkina, Valery P. Kalinitchenko, Rupesh Kumar Singh and Vishnu D. Rajput ()
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Subhradip Bhattacharjee: Agronomy Section, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal 132001, India
Amitava Panja: Dairy Extension Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal 132001, India
Moumita Panda: Department of Plant Pathology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia 741252, India
Subham Dutta: Department of Plant Pathology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia 741252, India
Susanta Dutta: Agronomy Department, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara 144401, India
Rakesh Kumar: Agronomy Section, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal 132001, India
Dinesh Kumar: Intellectual Property Rights Cell, ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa 403402, India
Malu Ram Yadav: Division of Agronomy, Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, SKNAU, Jaipur 302018, India
Tatiana Minkina: Academy of Biology and Biotechnologies, Southern Federal University, 194/1 Stachki Prosp., Rostov-on-Don 344090, Russia
Valery P. Kalinitchenko: All-Russia Phytopathology Research Institute, 5 Institute St., Big Vyazyomy, Moscow 143050, Russia
Rupesh Kumar Singh: Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Campus of Gualtar, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Vishnu D. Rajput: Academy of Biology and Biotechnologies, Southern Federal University, 194/1 Stachki Prosp., Rostov-on-Don 344090, Russia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: Conservation agriculture has recently been a hot topic of agricultural research and has generated significant global interest. Conservation agriculture has three core principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover, and crop rotations. The research on this topic has also witnessed a boom in recent years as the number of peer-reviewed literature on conservation agriculture is rising exponentially. This study critically examines all the peer-reviewed documents published on conservation agriculture from the 1990s to 2021 and indexed in the web of science core database. The search returned 3023 documents, which were then processed in the R-based bibliometric package for annual scientific production trend, source, author, document, citation, keyword analysis, and co-occurrence networking using VOSviewer. Our findings show remarkable growth in conservation agriculture research in recent times, although it witnessed a shortfall in 2021. Notably, 15 core source journals contribute the most to the field, while 8692 researchers have authored or co-authored at least a document on conservation agriculture. While the USA, India, and Australia are front runners in conservation agriculture research, the spread of the topic is worldwide.

Keywords: conservation agriculture; bibliometric analysis; bibliometric; R; network analysis; vosviwer; Bradford’s law; and publication trend (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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