Characterization of the scientific production on Moringa oleifera Lam. for the period 2013–2023

Resumen

Objective: This study aims to map the scientific production on Moringa oleifera in the Scopus database over the period 2013–2023.

Design/methodology/approach: The bibliographic data of moringa publications was downloaded and data was characterized through a bibliometric analysis. The analysis identified key metrics, including the most productive countries, journals and authors with the highest number of publications and citations, topic niche, basic topics, emerging or declining topics, and motor topics.

Results: For the period 2013-2023,a total of 5680 documents were published, categorized as scientific articles (80.21%), bibliographic reviews (8.68%), conference papers (6.78%), book chapters (1.81%) and books (0.11%). Most of the research is embedded in areas such as: agricultural and biological sciences (21.92%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (10.71%) and pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceuticals (10.51%).

Limitations on study/implications: This study is limited to the Scopus database, which means that additional publications on Moringa oleifera from the 2013–2023 period may exist in other databases not included in this analysis.

Findings/conclusions: The bibliometric analysis provided insights into the scientific contributions related to Moringa oleifera and supports the development of research on more relevant and hot spots topics.