Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach

Increasing number of scientific publications points to quick developments in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology offers potentials of unimaginable proportions. Innovative possibilities present themselves in many areas of human activity, including agriculture, for example in...

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Main Author: Karmen Stopar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2016-10-01
Series:Acta Agriculturae Slovenica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/12667
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description Increasing number of scientific publications points to quick developments in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology offers potentials of unimaginable proportions. Innovative possibilities present themselves in many areas of human activity, including agriculture, for example in precision farming, reduction of pollution and increasing crop yields. We bibliometrically assessed interactions between nanotechnology and agriculture. With co-word analysis in particular, we examined aspects of agro-nano applications related to plant protection. In order to analyze and map the structure of knowledge, we employed selected terms from a general citation database Web of Science (WOS) as well as specialized bibliographic database CAB Abstracts which covers life sciences with a special emphasis on agriculture. Our thematic maps (visualization) present some principal themes and relations among them. Pesticides, biosensors and detection are the main keywords in the network of words from article titles and network of the KeyWords+. Analysis of controlled terms (descriptors, classification codes) from CAB Abstracts in connection with pesticides shows two important directions of research: pollution and environmental topics, and topics related to human health, experimental animals and related.  
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spelling doaj.art-ed4301ddb92c4ff8b2b3bbf44a09eec42023-09-03T07:55:47ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Agriculturae Slovenica1854-19412016-10-01107210.14720/aas.2016.107.2.2019059Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approachKarmen Stopar0University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty Increasing number of scientific publications points to quick developments in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology offers potentials of unimaginable proportions. Innovative possibilities present themselves in many areas of human activity, including agriculture, for example in precision farming, reduction of pollution and increasing crop yields. We bibliometrically assessed interactions between nanotechnology and agriculture. With co-word analysis in particular, we examined aspects of agro-nano applications related to plant protection. In order to analyze and map the structure of knowledge, we employed selected terms from a general citation database Web of Science (WOS) as well as specialized bibliographic database CAB Abstracts which covers life sciences with a special emphasis on agriculture. Our thematic maps (visualization) present some principal themes and relations among them. Pesticides, biosensors and detection are the main keywords in the network of words from article titles and network of the KeyWords+. Analysis of controlled terms (descriptors, classification codes) from CAB Abstracts in connection with pesticides shows two important directions of research: pollution and environmental topics, and topics related to human health, experimental animals and related.   https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/12667bibliometricsscientometricsco-word analysisnanotechnologyagriculturepesticides
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Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach
Acta Agriculturae Slovenica
bibliometrics
scientometrics
co-word analysis
nanotechnology
agriculture
pesticides
title Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach
title_full Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach
title_fullStr Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach
title_full_unstemmed Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach
title_short Presence of nanotechnology in agriculture: bibliometric approach
title_sort presence of nanotechnology in agriculture bibliometric approach
topic bibliometrics
scientometrics
co-word analysis
nanotechnology
agriculture
pesticides
url https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/12667
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