Abstract:

To comprehensively understand the current status and development trend of quinoa research at home and abroad in the past decade, this paper used bibliometric methods to comprehensively study the relevant literature on quinoa research, which were retrieved from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Chinese Journal Full-text Database and Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection Database from 2012 to 2022. The year of publication, research institutions, journal distribution, and subject field distribution of the literature were statistically analyzed, and the main research frontiers and hotspots of quinoa at home and abroad were summarized by keyword co-occurrence network analysis. The results show that quinoa research has been growing rapidly since 2013, “The International Year of Quinoa”, and has been in a period of rapid growth in the past three years. Although the research on quinoa started late in China, the number of published papers has surpassed that of the European and American countries, ranking first in the world. However, the paper quality needs to be further improved, and the average citation frequency is ranked after Germany, Italy, Chile, the United States and Spain. Foreign research institutions are mainly distributed in the origin area of quinoa in South America and developed countries in Europe and North America, while domestic research institutions are mainly concentrated in the quinoa planting areas such as Northwest China and North China. The distribution of journals is mainly in the field of food science, and the research hotspots are mainly focused on breeding and cultivation, nutritional quality, and processing characteristics. As a kind of healthy grain, quinoa is emerging in China, and promoting its industrialization has broad development prospects and application space.

Key words: Quinoa, bibliometrics, research hotspots, development tendency