Knowledge Mapping of bioeconomy: A bibliometric analysis

With its cross-cutting nature, bioeconomy offers a unique opportunity to address complex and inter-connected challenges, while achieving economic goals. This fact has pushed many stakeholders to turn to bioeconomy as a path towards sustainable primary production and processing systems. An increasing number of studies on bioeconomy have reflected the multi-disciplinary nature and the constantly evolving definition of bioeconomy. However, there is a lack of systematically interactive analysis on the scientific and practice achievements of bioeconomy. This study aims to explain epistemological developments in various industrial and geographic contexts for the concept of bioeconomy through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis and social network analysis of 6976 articles and reviews that are published from 1996 to 2022 and retrieved in the Web of Science. The study summaries an empirically-based characterization of bioeconomy researches in terms of countries, institutions, authors, hotspots and trends. Based on the reviewing the literature selected from the bibliometric analysis, qualitative conclusions are drawn to provide a more complete view of the intellectual landscape of bioeconomy from theories to practices. The results also helped identify knowledge gaps and future research agenda.