Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on the Bokashi organic fertilizer: alternative in sustainable agriculture

The use of Bokashi as an organic soil amendment and a sou-rce of plant nutrition has received considerable attention in recent years. Bokashi, is a composting method of Japanese origin, based on the aerobic fermentation of waste through the inoculation of efficient microorganisms, which are anae- robic bacteria and lactic yeasts that accelerate the process, shortening the time it takes to obtain the fertilizer. The objective of the research was to characterize the world scien-tific production on Bokashi fertilizer indexed in the SCOPUS database. The process was carried out on August 10, 2022 using the search algorithm: (TITLE-ABS-KEY (Bocashi) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (Bokashi)) linked to article title, abstract and keywords. The research was carried out using the research instrument of the VOSviewer and Harzing's Publish of Perish software. The results of the bibliometric analysis recorded a total of 161 documents published between the years 1999 and 2022. The main types of publications were 129 articles (80.12 %) and 25 conferences (15.52 %), 87.58 % (141 pu-blications) of which, were in English. Brazil was the country with the most publications (39), followed by Indonesia (31) and Mexico (22). Ventura, M. U. was the highest producing author with six articles. In the co-authorship networks, two main networks were found: the first with Fregonezi, G. A. F., Hata, F. T. and Ventura, M. U. and the second with Gradzki, Z. The growing interest in Bokashi as a sustainable alternative in agricultural production systems should allow to establish and build networks of scientific publications, scientific journals, researchers, research organization, countries and keywords.