Commensurable Analysis of Scientific Communications Published in Reviews in Aquaculture Applying Scientometric Analysis

This study presents a longitudinal and visualization mapping of scientific communications published in Reviews in Aquaculture during the period 2011-2020, applying scientometric approaches to depict the scientific contributions, collaboration trends, and research hotspots in the subject of aquaculture. Metadata of 412 articles published in Reviews in Aquaculture was retrieved and downloaded from Scopus database. The network graphs were visualized using 'VOSviewer' and 'Gephi' software. The chronological growth of scientific communications published in the journal, most productive authors, institutions, and countries vis-à-vis collaboration trends amongst them were scrutinized. The subject facets engulfed by the journal were identified based on co-occurrence of keywords. The findings would be useful for strengthening collaborative research as well as to pay required attention towards the slenderly explored sub-domains in aquaculture.