Trends in global herbicides research during 2011-2020: A web of sciencebased scientometric study

Herbicides are continuing to be an integral part of weed control in global agriculture and hence the research related to herbicides have paramount importance. Therefore, the present study attempts a scientometric analysis of global herbicide research undertaken during the last decade (2011 to 2020). For this, we collected the bibliometric data on published literature from the ISI Web of science core collection database in March 2021. A combination of search strings was used to obtain the appropriate data on herbicide research and VOSviewer was used for analyzing the networks among authors, organizations, journals, and countries. The study showed that 9,980 research papers were published on herbicide research with an average citation per article of 9.94 during this period. The volume of publications exhibited an increasing trend over the years. Further, the leading countries involved in the herbicide research domain were the USA, China and Brazil. The co-occurrence analysis of author keywords indicted “herbicide resistance” as the most focussed field in the herbicide research domain.