ABSTRACT

Imperata cylindirica (I. cylindrica) is a plant that is popular in Asia. There has been an increase in papers on I. cylindrica from various research fields in recent years. The contribution of research on I. cylindrica from different institutions and authors is compared in this study, which observed at the trend in Imperata cylindrica research from 2012 to 2021. The aim of to identify and describe the scientific literature of I. cylindrica in the scopus database from 2012 to 2021. The top ten institutions/universities, list of significant authors, top ten journals that published research, top twenty cited articles, and global distribution of publications on I. cylindrica were all identified using keywords from the Scopus database. The University of Florida and IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science published the highest number of articles on I. cylindrica. Over the past 10 years, the literature on I. cylindrica has continuously grown, with the rate increasing after 2015. Countries in Asia are the ones that published the most papers on I. cylindrica, and the most widely written subject area is about agriculture.