Mycotoxins in food analysis: A study with bibliometric indicators and visualization maps

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The purpose of the study was to identify the development of scientific production by year and journal, determine the thematic structure and identify the co-authorship network of the literature about mycotoxins in food analysis. A descriptive study was conducted of documents published in the database Scopus from 2011 to 2020, using bibliometric indicators and visualization maps. A total 453 articles were included which met the inclusion criteria. Of these, 382 were research articles and 71 were reviews. The average annual number of citations per article ranged from 6 in 2019 to 40.5 in 2012. The most productive journal was Mycotoxin Research from Springer Nature publishers. The co-occurrence map displayed five descriptor clusters, whereas the co-authorship map displayed 21 clusters, 14 of which corresponded to authors researching in co-authorship. Scientific development had a non-uniform, slowly growing annual output. The thematic structure according to the co-occurrence network shows that the most frequent term is "mycotoxins", corresponding to mycotoxins influencing public health from the first cluster. The co-authorship network shows that 98.2% of the articles were co-authored, and the most productive author was Krska Rudolf, from Queen's University, Belfast, with 24 articles.

Key words: Mycotoxins; food analysis; bibliometrics; visualization maps.

Author Biographies

Ricardo Alfredo Julian Leon-Vasquez, Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa. Peru.

Docente del Departamento de Microbiologia y Patologia de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustin.

Biologo. Magister en Salud Publica.

Cesar H. Limaymanta, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información. Lima, Perú. Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Línea de Estadística. Lima, Perú.

Docente de Bibliometría, Estadística y Metodología de la Investigación.

Licenciado en Pedagogía y Humanidades, especialidad de Matemática. Magister en Estadística Matemática.

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2021-11-10

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Leon-Vasquez RAJ, Limaymanta CH. Mycotoxins in food analysis: A study with bibliometric indicators and visualization maps. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [Internet]. 2021 Nov. 10 [cited 2024 Dec. 26];32(4). Available from: https://acimed.sld.cu/index.php/acimed/article/view/1792

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