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Review
. 2023 Apr 3;13(7):1240.
doi: 10.3390/ani13071240.

Crayfish Research: A Global Scientometric Analysis Using CiteSpace

Mohamad Nor Azra  1   2 , Li Lian Wong  1 , Hani Amir Aouissi  3   4   5 , Ivar Zekker  6 , Mohd Ashaari Amin  7 , Wan Norazira Wan Adnan  8 , Muhammad Fuad Abdullah  9 , Zulkiflee Abd Latif  9 , Mohd Iqbal Mohd Noor  9   10 , Fathurrahman Lananan  11 , Faezah Pardi  9   12
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Crayfish Research: A Global Scientometric Analysis Using CiteSpace

Mohamad Nor Azra et al. Animals (Basel). .

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Abstract

A scientometric analysis was conducted to investigate the trends and development of crayfish research in terms of literature published, author, affiliation, and countries' collaborative networks, as well as the co-citation dataset (e.g., author, article, and keywords). The study analyzed 12,039 bibliographic datasets from the Web of Science, using CiteSpace as a tool for the co-citation analysis. The study revealed extraordinary increases in publication trends, with a total of 21,329 authors involved in approximately 80% of countries around the world (163/195) having conducted crayfish research. Unsurprisingly, countries such as the USA and China, followed by European countries, were among the top countries that have published crayfish-related studies. The findings also indicated that "invasive crayfish" was the world's top keyword for crayfish research. Crayfish species are important for both environmental sustainability (invasiveness and species composition) and social wellbeing (aquaculture), which provides directions for research, philanthropic, academic, government, and non-government organizations regarding how to invest limited resources into policies, programs, and research towards the future management of this species. Our study concluded that strategic collaboration among authors, institutions, and countries would be vital to tackle the issue of invasive crayfish species around the world.

Keywords: aquaculture; aquatic organism; crayfish; environmental factors; invasive.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interest or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this article.

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Figure 1
The research flow chart for the analysis of crayfish research around the world.
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Figure 2
Production of scientific research on crayfish from 1970 to 2021.
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Figure 3
Total publications per nation for crayfish research. Dark magenta represents the highest number of publications, whereas lighter shades represent fewer publications.
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Figure 4
Author co-citation analysis.
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Figure 5
Journal co-citation analysis, where only journals with centrality scores greater than 0.1 are included.
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Figure 6
Document citation analysis, showing the overall article availability network (Holdich, D. 2019 [8], Yeh, S.-R. 1996 [47], Huber, R. 1997 [48], Usio, N. [49]).
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Figure 7
Summary of document cluster lifetimes (solid lines) from 1970 to 2021. The cluster labels were generated by CiteSpace.
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