Studies in Agro-Industrial Complexes: Analysis of Literature Indexed on the Web of Science 1945-2020

The research analyzes scientific publications in agro-industrial complexes based on the literature indexed on the Web of Science database. This is a bibliometric, exploratory-descriptive research. Using the descriptors “agro-industrial complex” or “agro-industrial complex”, 171 articles were retrieved in February 2021. There was a prevalence of the Economics category and the Business Economics research area. The study showed an upward increase in the number of publications, especially in 2018. English was the predominant language with the largest number of publications, followed by Russian. The countries from which the largest number of publications originated were Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Of the twenty research institutions with the highest volume of publications in agro-industrial complexes, 60% are located in Russian territory. Finally, there was an ordering with a high dispersion of publications, so that 21 researchers concentrate 44 publications (5.80%) while 94.20% of researchers (341) have one publication each.