Aquaculture research in Southeast Asia-A scientometric analysis (1990-2019)

The volume of the aquaculture industry has tripled since 2000 and recent data showed that 47% of the total global fish production and 10.34% of it comes from the Southeast Asia region. Thus, the purpose of this study is to synthesise the available literature of aquaculture research in Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2019 using the scientometric method. This article found that a total of 1662 publications with 230,221 total citations were retrieved from Web of Sciences on 10th November 2020. The aquaculture research's landscape from Southeast Asia showed that the year of 2018 resulted in the highest number of total publications in terms of the year. The study reveals that "aquaculture" is the top publication title used, and the author of Qiwei Qin is the most prolific author in the aquaculture research in Southeast Asia (author's affiliation was not among the Southeast Asia countries). The study also reveals that Vietnam and Can Tho University is the leading country and organisation, respectively within Southeast Asia in this research area (i.e. Aquaculture Research) in terms of the highest publication. The key topic and development showed that "Ecology, Earth, Marine" discipline dominate the study in this area. There are six clusters that emerged as key topics with high silhouette scores ranging from 0.649 to 0.988. Surprisingly, keyword with largest magnitude was "climate change" (strength = 10.9997), with a burst span of 2 years and the strongest burst strength for an article by Richards and Friess. Overall, this study shows a diversity trend with the continuous development of cross disciplinary integration.