Analysis of Esterification Research in Indonesia for 25 Years using Bibliometric Method

The rapid development in the industrial world today, especially in the chemical industry, increases the need for ester compounds. The development of research and use of ester compounds in the industry will not stop as long as technology is still developing. The ester compound, one of the industrial organic compounds with the highest volume, can be used in various industrial worlds, such as textile, pharmaceutical, and food industries. The esterification process is considered to be the most common and most widely practiced ester synthesis process. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the esterification process in Indonesia for twenty-five years (1997-2022) using the bibliometric method. Information of bibliometric is extracted from the Scopus database with the keyword "Esterification". The study identifies the most prolific authors and top institutions for journals. Networks linking keywords in esterification studies were mapped to visualize research hotspots using similarity visualization software (VOSviewer). The most significant topics were covered by the journal with a total of 365 publications. Subjects related to the esterification process were determined as the most relevant.