Bioeconomy and Livestock Production Nexus: A Bibliometric Network Analysis

Abstract

Over the last couple of decades, the livestock production systems of the agri-food sector increase meat production in order to meet the demand and adapt to satisfy the food preferences of the continuously increasingly world population. This fact, along with the promotion of sustainable production, has brought to light the topic of bioeconomy. The rapid increase in publications on the research area of bioeconomy has become the motivation for this study in order to analyze its relation with livestock production. This study provides a thorough review of the scientific literature on the bioeconomy of livestock production. The bibliometric network analysis (i.e., software VOSviewer) were performed over the time frame of 2004–2021. The results identified 624 documents bioeconomy of livestock production by 160 research organizations from 83 countries. This paper visualizes the strongest links about livestock production bioeconomy, main research topics, most influential countries, authors, and organizations, as well as high-frequency keywords. Therefore, this study contributes to building global bioeconomy policies and encouraging the livestock sector to implement bioeconomy practices. The research gap identified in many countries should be the trigger for future research in this subject.

The academic interest for bioplastics - a bibliometric analysis

“…The topics related to bioplastics are gaining more attention and are increasingly more addressed by scientists. The recent science also increasingly reflects the bioeconomy and circular economy (Paltaki et al, 2021). However, most scientific publications in bioplastics focus on polymers processing, technology, resources, and other following issues, with a lack of attention on treating economic issues of the production similarly as in the case of the bioeconomy pointed out by Pfau et al (2014).…”

“…We perceive waste utilisation as a good and sustainable resource for the bioeconomy in general. Paltaki et al (2021) emphasise waste management, manure, biorefineries, fermentation, and circular economy as the future directions for sustainable growth and bioeconomy.…”

“…"Analyze results" tool. Bibliometric analysis is a pretty recent approach for research documents analysis providing an extensive review of the literature (Paltaki et al, 2021). It enables a method to identify and map the development of publications, in this case, scientific literature, based on statistical indicators regarding the outputs of scientists, and enables to map new fields of science, networks, and the development within (Konstantinis et al, 2018).…”

“…van Eck and Waltman (2010;, Jeong and Koo (2016), Shah and Lei (2020). Within the bioeconomy, this software was used, for example, to define bioeconomy (Konstantinis et al, 2018), an overview of factors influencing the bioeconomy (Muizniece et al, 2019), an overview of bioeconomy and livestock production (Paltaki et al, 2021), an overview of forest bioeconomy (Biancolillo et al, 2020), or biorefineries in the context of circular bioeconomy (Ubando et al, 2020). For this paper, all records indexed in the Web of Science database related to the bioplastic topic available up to 21 st January 2021 were selected.…”

“Blockchain technology in food safety and traceability concern to livestock products”

“…The term “bioeconomy” refers to the process by which renewable biological resources are produced and transformed into goods of worth, including waste streams. Livestock production is one of the main production sectors to which bioeconomy would be most closely linked [ 105 ]. In order to make the transition to a bioeconomy, it is important to recognize the myriad of interactions that can arise between various governmental objectives and the food industry as well as consumers, which may be solved with blockchain-driven innovations by providing framework for traceable, verifiable, and complete communication of bio-farming practices to consumers who are increasingly wanting to make eco-friendly consumption choices [ 106 ].…”