Field trials in genome edited plants: a bibliometric approach

Abstract

We have performed bibliometric analysis on field trials of genome edited plants utilizing Scopus and Web of Science core collections. All documents published until May, 2023 were extracted. The final bibliographic data consisted of 39 publications after merging both databases and removing duplicates. Bibliometrix package and Biblioshiny interface available in R studio were utilized to perform the bibliometric analysis. The documents were published in various sources (38) with diverse scopes. Frontiers in Plant Science and Plant Biotechnology Journal were the most active followed by Research Journal of Biotechnology. India and the USA were the leading countries on the topic. The Sankey plot demonstrated that besides publishing on genome editing and field trials, the USA was also publishing in CRISPR/Cas9, acrylamide and biosafety as sub-topics. India was also associated with acrylamide. Acrylamide as a keyword and sub-topic was published in Plant Biotechnology Journal based on our data collection. The most frequent keywords displayed with the word cloud following gene/genome editing and field trials were CRISPR, CRISPR/Cas9, genetic engineering, acrylamide, agronomic traits, biosafety, biotechnology, and crop productivity.