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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agro-Food Safety
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1475602

The Evolution of Precision Agriculture and Food Safety: A Bibliometric Study

Provisionally accepted
Jiahui Xu Jiahui Xu 1Yuanpei Cui Yuanpei Cui 1Shuhan Zhang Shuhan Zhang 2Meiping Zhang Meiping Zhang 3*
  • 1 Hebei Finance University, Baoding Shi, Hebei Province, China
  • 2 Tsinghua University, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • 3 Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, China

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    Food safety issues pose a significant threat to humanity. Precision agriculture leverages advanced technologies for real-time monitoring and management, improving agricultural productivity and sustainability while safeguarding food security. Nonetheless, acquiring a thorough comprehension of this continually shifting panorama remains of vital significance. This study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric review of precision agriculture and food safety, utilizing quantitative methods to identify past, current, and future evolution. Publications emerged in 1994 and began to rise significantly since 2019. Citation analysis verified influencing works and journals, whereas co-authorship analysis identified how authors, institutions, and countries collaborate in this field. Co-citation analysis then classified past and current hotspots into four clusters: remote vegetation monitoring techniques, technological innovations and agricultural decision-making, precision agriculture and sustainable development, and deep learning in agriculture. After that, the co-occurrence of keywords revealed emerging trends, such as precision cultivation and yield prediction, smart agricultural technology and food management, precision information for climate change adaptation, and precision agriculture and food security. The results provide valuable insights for scholars, policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and industry stakeholders, guiding future research directions and helping to address challenges in agriculture and food safety.

    Keywords: precision agriculture, Food Safety, bibliometric analysis, Web of Science, VOSveiwer

    Received: 04 Aug 2024; Accepted: 18 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Xu, Cui, Zhang and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Meiping Zhang, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, China

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