Mapping the Trends in Global Research Productivity and Conservation of Saffron (Crocus sativus L.): Insight from Bibliometric Analysis during 1950–2022

Abstract

Saffron is an essential medicinal plant and cash crop on this planet having significant medicinal and commercial values. The main goals of this study are to identify and analyse the scholarly articles published in the reputed Web of Science database to know the current trend in the research and conservation of saffron all over the world. The documents were selected from the 1950–2022 time period and found 3527 documents were selected in English from different authors across the globe. There are many approaches that are targeted to visualise the author impact, countries collaboration, tree map, keywords used and conservation of saffron. Since, saffron has tremendous medicinal properties and has economic values. The study is the first bibliometric investigation from the Web of Science database reporting the data published in the form of articles and representing a standard reference for visualisation of future research in the various fields of medicine, plant science, pharmacy and pharmaceuticals.