Bibliometric Analysis of Thermal Comfort and Sleep Quality Research Trends in Indonesia

Abstract Using a bibliometric analysis of the publication output associated with research on thermal comfort and sleep quality in Indonesia during the ten-year period 2012-2022, the purpose of this study was to describe current trends and future research areas. The database Scopus was queried for information covering the years 2012 to 2022. We analyzed selected documents containing “thermal comfort,” “Indonesia,” and “sleep quality” as part of the title, abstract, or key words and reported the following parameters: publication output trends, cooccurrence, author institution, author key words, and index key words. We utilized Visualization of Similarities (VOS) viewer to analyze the files of a bibliographic database in which five co-occurrences occurred. Air conditioning, ventilation, and the tropics accounted for three main cluster of thermal comfort in Indonesia. Meanwhile, in the sleep quality, the main cluster consisted of human, adult, and major clinical study. This study provides a bibliometric analysis demonstrating that, over the past 26 years, the annual number of publications pertaining to sleep quality in Indonesia has increased at a significantly faster rate than literature on thermal comfort. The latest keywords (trend) of thermal comfort are energy efficiency, temperature effect, and field measurement. In the sleep quality topic, the latest keywords are pandemic, controlled study, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).