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Agriculture startups (AgTechs): a bibliometric study

“…Bibliometric studies, in which a particular field of knowledge is studied through quantitative and statistical analyzes to describe publication patterns (Ratnatunga and Romano, 1997), have been widely used by scholars to probe the past and present state of research interests for several purposes (Akbar and Zaim, 2019), with bibliometric studies based on specific topics being one of the most common in the literature (Laengle et al, 2018). Topic-based bibliometric studies aim to analyze various issues, such as the performance of authors, journals, universities, and countries about a specific topic (Laengle et al, 2018).…”

“…Thus, bibliometric methods allow researchers to base their findings on aggregated bibliographic data produced by other scientists working in the field who express their opinions through citation, collaboration and writing (Zupic and Cater, 2015) with the input of the bibliometric study being the collection of scientific articles from a database of world-renowned scientific literature (Akbar and Zaim, 2019) and the output being insights into the structure of the field of knowledge, networks, and identification of current and rapidly growing topics (Zupic and Cater, 2015), which is consistent with the development of this article, which seeks to assess the development of the theme of AgTechs in academic literature.…”