Global research trends in food safety in agriculture and industry from 1991 to 2018: A data-driven analysis

Publication date: Available online 28 January 2019Source: Trends in Food Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Kai Hu, Juan Liu, Bin Li, Lili Liu, Seyed Mohammad Taghi Gharibzahedi, Ye Su, Yongnian Jiang, Jinglu Tan, Yingkuan Wang, Ya GuoAbstractFood safety (FS), as a topic important to human health and wellbeing, has attracted a great deal of attention. With the large volume of publications in the area, it is hard to gain a comprehensive picture of the research trends. A scientometric data-driven analysis of the field can help reveal the diverse facets of FS. Food safety is critical in two important stages of the food system: food production and food processing, which are categorized as agriculture food safety (Agric-FS) and industry food safety (Ind-FS), respectively. In this work, these two closely-related but different research fields are comparatively analyzed. Based on scientometric theory and metrics, characteristics of both fields are discussed in terms of annual research output, active journals, important authors, and countries of activities. The overall output of publications is in an upward trend and the dynamics of publications in the two areas are in a similar pattern. Food control and Journal of Food Protection are both representative journals for Agric-FS and Ind-FS. Jacxsens L, Uyttendaele M, LeJeune J, Luning P are representative authors for Agric-FS and Jacxsens L, Griffith CJ, Luning P, and Uyttendaele M, are representative authors for Ind-FS. The USA is the leadi...
Source: Trends in Food Science and Technology - Category: Food Science Source Type: research