Gum: Sytamatic and thematic analysis of the top 100 most-cited articles indexed in the Scopus database.
2023
Musa, Hassan Hussein | Yinka, Akintunde Tosin | Oderinde, Olayinka | Musa, Taha Hussein
The study attempted to use systematic and thematic analysis of reported top 100 cited articles on Gum research. We adopted systematic and thematic analysis using bibliometric analysis tools, such as Scopus database to search relevant documents in Gum. Data were analyzed by RStudio and VOSviewer, and the top 100 cited articles were systematically classified into structural (both chemical and physical), biological, pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic properties of Gum. The citation times for the 100 top-cited articles ranged from 93 to 457, with an average citation per document of 151.5 scores. The 100 top-cited articles were published in 48 journals, and the journal “Food hydrocolloids” was a top-rank journal with (n = 15) articles followed by “Carbohydrate polymers” (n = 11) articles. Mcclements DJ was the most productive author (6 articles). China the, USA, and India are the most productive countries with more than 30 articles published in Gum. Among 153 contributed affiliations, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia were top affiliations in Gum research with more than 14 published articles. The comprehensive analysis shows that about 78% of articles were focused on the structural, chemical and physical properties (9%) of food biological (8%), and on pharmaceutical properties (5%). This is the first bibliometric analysis to provide a historical perspective on Gum scientific research. The systematic and thematic analysis provides comprehensive information on the scientific research direction, hot topics and trends in Gum.
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