Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Essential Oils in Indonesia (1997-2022) using VOSviewer

Essential oil is one of the ingredients that has been widely used as medicine or fragrance by humans for a long time. Essential oil is obtained from the extraction process of certain parts of a plant. At this time the use of essential oil is increasingly widespread in various fields, such as the field of food production, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. This study will contain a bibliometric analysis of the development of essential oil research in Indonesia in the last 25 years (1997-2022). The data was retrieved from the Scopus database and was analyzed using VOSviewer to determine the relationship between keywords and the author of each published document. The data obtained 774 document publications with an average of 33 publications annually. So far, Mahfud, M. and Kusuma, H.S. are the most prolific authors with 27 and 19 publications. The results showed that the topic of essential oils began to receive considerable attention from Indonesian researchers from 2000 to 2022, although in the previous year (1997-1999) there were no publications of documents on essential oil research. Overall, this study could be used by researchers to quantitatively examine this research topic's trends and future direction.