Research trends and shrimp farming adaptation to climate change: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Climate change poses significant challenges to the global aquaculture industry, especially shrimp farming in developing countries, where shrimp farmers must adapt to ensure the sustainability of their businesses. Adaptation of aquaculture has been studied a lot, but less to shrimp farmers. This study aims to understand the pattern of the research directions. Based on bibliometric analysis, this paper presents research trends and future prospects 2009 to 2024, that used VOSviewer and Biblioshiny software to visualize the analyzed datasets from the Scopus database. Based from the results show that China leads the overall field, then following by United States, Vietnam, Bangladesh, UK, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. Thematic map shows that very relevant topic are “decapoda”, “shrimp farming”, and “climate change”, including the themes of mangroves and adaptive management. Meanwhile, the research themes, such as: “animals” and “adaptation”, may be included in the research categories that are less central and less developed compared to the highlighted themes. Research trends for the future research focuses on “eutrophication” and “shrimp farming”, appear to have more consistent mentions, while the specific terms such as “decapoda”, “climate change”, and “bacteria” are likely to be of particular interest that indicate significant trends in their use over time.