A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH USING VOSVIEWER AND ITS CORRELATION WITH COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONDITION

Chemical Engineering is a branch of engineering that studies how to convert raw materials and chemicals into a more commercially valuable product by utilizing chemical processes. The purpose of this research is to conduct bibliometric analysis in chemical engineering by combining mapping analysis using VOSviewer software. Application reference manager used to obtain research data. The data obtained is the result of a search based on the keyword "chemical engineering". From the search results, 1000 relevant published articles were found in the range of 2017-2021. The results showed that research on chemical engineering has increased in 2017-2018, but it decreases since 2019. The main reason is that the pandemic situation gave a great impact since chemical engineering relates to laboratory experiments. This study demonstrates the importance of bibliometric analysis in giving analysis data on what phenomena happen. This research is expected to help and become a reference for researchers in conducting and determining the research themes to be taken.