Open AccessDescribing and visualizing the progress of ethnozoology in Indonesia by using VOSviewer
Author(s) -
Ani Mardiastuti,
Burhanuddin Masy’ud,
Lin Nuriah Ginoga,
Hafiyyan Sastranegara,
Sutopo Sutopo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/771/1/012004
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , citation , data science , bibliometrics , library science , computer science , programming language
As a science, ethnozoology is relatively less popular compared to ethnobotany, although local people in Indonesia have been practicing ethnozoology for thousands of years. This paper aimed to describe the progress of ethnozoology in Indonesia, specifically about research topic within ethnozoology, taxa mostly harvested by the local people, as well as institutions that mostly conduct ethnozoological research. An intensive literature study of the published papers in the last 20 years was performed. Data were analyzed by using VOSviewer. Of the 53 published literatures, VOSviewer showed that the research topic of ethnozoology based on keywords has 16 clusters with 464 links and mostly related to traditional medicine (15 occurrences; 62 total link strength) and reptiles (13 occurrences; 54 total link strength). Among vertebrates, the most widely-utilized taxon was herpetofauna (reptiles and amphibians) which were included in 44 references. The institutions that have been conducting research on this topic mostly were IPB University (15 refs), Tanjungpura University (7 refs), and Bangka Belitung University (4 refs). Although VOSviewer was meant to construct and visualize bibliometric networks based on authors/co-authors and their affiliations, citation/co-citation, and bibliographic coupling, this software can also be used to describe and visualize specific themes or topics as well.