Food Security and Sustainability Dimensions of Organic Farming: A Comprehensive Scientometric Review (2010-2022)

Abstract The study investigated the scientific output, collaboration, and impression of research on organic farming due to the increasing interest of commoners in food quality and sustainability. Efforts to enhance agroecological sustainability call for assessing the structural overview of the numerous research work done so far to understand the growth in diverse subject areas in organic farming. The scientometric method is considered for analyzing 511 documents extracted in CSV format from the Scopus online database from 2010 till July 2, 2022. The pulled-out data is analyzed via VOSviewer, revealing prominent contributing authors, cited references, the significant collaboration between the countries, total link strength, and co-occurrence of author keywords using analysis of co-authorship, co-occurrence, citation, and bibliographic coupling in several domains. Out of 511 documents published in the English language retrieved from the Scopus database, 75.29% are articles, 11.17% are review papers, and 13.52% are conference papers. In 2021, the maximum number of documents produced (n = 97) related to organic farming. India has contributed the maximum number of documents (n = 65) with the collaboration of 29 other countries and bagged 730 citations. The following study is the first to conduct a scientometric analysis in the field of food security and sustainability dimensions of organic farming, which facilitate a better understanding of the recent growth trend of research associated with organic farming on the one hand and can further improve the policies based on brainstorming to action formulation not only in academics but also in research and development on the other.