A Decade of Agribusiness Research: Bibliometric Insights into Rural Development Trends (2015–2025)
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Rural development plays a crucial role in ensuring food security, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic stability. Agribusiness provides integrated solutions to rural challenges, yet global research trends in this area remain fragmented and underexplored.This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of 144 documents indexed in the Web of Science (2015–2025). Using R and VOS viewer, we mapped publication trends, co-authorship networks, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic clusters to track research dynamics and emerging themes.The analysis shows an annual growth rate of 11.61%, moderate international collaboration (21.53%), and the dominance of motor themes such as rural development, agroindustry, and smallholder farming. Basic themes including regional planning and agriculture remain central but underdeveloped, while emerging concepts like entrepreneurship, investment, and regression analysis reflect a shift toward market driven and data-informed approaches.This study consolidates a decade of fragmented scholarship, identifies gaps in conceptual integration, and highlights opportunities for strengthening cross sectoral collaboration, sustainability, and digital transformation in rural agribusiness research. It provides a roadmap for future studies and policy design aimed at inclusive rural transformation
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