DIGITALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE - A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

This study aims to complete the previous studies and to create an overview of the interest given to the field regarding the digitization of agriculture. The analysis was carried out on a sample of 604 scientific documents published on the Web of Science (WoS), using the VOSviewer software. The study first analyzes the annual trend of publications, the annual trend of article citations as well as the trend of keywords and co-authorship by country. In many studies, the process of digitalization of agriculture is discussed in which various technologies capable of facing the current challenges regarding the agri-food sector are proposed. However, bibliometric studies on the digitization of agriculture are few. The results emphasize the methodological approach, obtaining maps with the terms that appear frequently in the analyzed studies, being grouped into 6 clusters, two of which are representative. The yellow cluster consists of terms related to digitization, climate change, and machine learning while the red cluster consists of terms related to agriculture, performance, management, and big data. Out of the total of 604 published documents, Romania has a percentage of 26% of published articles, being the leader in the ranking.