“…This method enables researchers to analyse data in a particular journal or subject, to determine research trends and elaborate leading countries, authors, institutions, journals and collaborations in a certain field of study (Glänzel, 2003;Jia, Dai, & Guo, 2014;Li & Zhao, 2015;Van Raan, 2003).The main advantage of this method is to provide an objective quantitative assessment of rapidly growing literature mass to design future research strategies (Narin, Olivastro, & Stevens, 1994). It is also used analyse specific topics, books, journals, graduate theses and other publications (Giménez-Espert & Prado-Gascó, 2019;Oliveira, Maia, & Miranda, 2016;Wardhaugh, 2009;Zou et al, 2019).…”