Affiliations 

  • 1 Climate Change Adaptation Laboratory, Institute of Marine Biotechnology (IMB), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Nerus 21030, Malaysia
  • 2 Scientific and Technical Research Center on Arid Regions (CRSTRA), Biskra 07000, Algeria
  • 3 Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, 14a Ravila Street, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
  • 4 Crayfish Aqua Venture (CAV), Pulau Gadong Street, Klebang Besar, Melaka 75200, Malaysia
  • 5 Department of Applied Sciences and Agriculture, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Johor Branch Campus, Segamat 85000, Johor, Malaysia
  • 6 Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia
  • 7 East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu 21300, Malaysia
Animals (Basel), 2023 Apr 03;13(7).
PMID: 37048496 DOI: 10.3390/ani13071240

Abstract

A scientometric analysis was conducted to investigate the trends and development of crayfish research in terms of literature published, author, affiliation, and countries' collaborative networks, as well as the co-citation dataset (e.g., author, article, and keywords). The study analyzed 12,039 bibliographic datasets from the Web of Science, using CiteSpace as a tool for the co-citation analysis. The study revealed extraordinary increases in publication trends, with a total of 21,329 authors involved in approximately 80% of countries around the world (163/195) having conducted crayfish research. Unsurprisingly, countries such as the USA and China, followed by European countries, were among the top countries that have published crayfish-related studies. The findings also indicated that "invasive crayfish" was the world's top keyword for crayfish research. Crayfish species are important for both environmental sustainability (invasiveness and species composition) and social wellbeing (aquaculture), which provides directions for research, philanthropic, academic, government, and non-government organizations regarding how to invest limited resources into policies, programs, and research towards the future management of this species. Our study concluded that strategic collaboration among authors, institutions, and countries would be vital to tackle the issue of invasive crayfish species around the world.

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