A bibliometric approach to understanding the recent development of self-sufficient fish feed production utilizing agri-food wastes and by-products towards sustainable aquaculture

The global agri-food industry generates a large volume of waste annually, which causes both
environmental and economic problems. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the use of
agri-food wastes and by-products to produce self-sufficient fish feed. This study aimed to analyze
the intellectual structure of the recent research on the utilization of agri-food wastes and by-
products as self-sufficient fish feed materials based on 922 Scopus-indexed core collection doc
uments from 252 journals written by 4420 authors from 73 countries with an annual growth rate
of 18.65% over the last four years (2019–2022). This bibliometric study implemented knowledge
domain visualization (KDV) using VOSViewer and Biblioshiny in the Bibliometrix R-package to
investigate the basic scientometric profile of the selected fields. The results showed that Dawood
M.A.O., with PageRanks of 0.0732, 19 total publications, 695 global citations from 2019 to 2022,
and closeness values of 0.25, was the most productive author within the field. Subsequently,
China was determined to be the most productive country (93 valid documents) and have the
strongest collaboration network. Major research hotspots in the field included aquaculture and
sustainable aquaculture, fish feed with agri-food waste, rainbow trout species, the development of
a circular economy, probiotic applications, and cell signaling cytokines and peptides. This bib
liometric study provides comprehensive information on the intellectual domain and research
landscape on self-sufficient fish feed and also shows how interest in this research topic and similar
ones is growing.