Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends on “Smong” Using VOSviewer

Abstract The research aims to determine the performance of the publication of research topic articles that raise smong as well as knowledge mapping to find out areas of study that raise smong as a research topic. The study used 18 articles and proceedings indexed by Scopus as the research population. The bibliometric analysis carried out utilized keywords derived from the abstracts and titles of the articles collected. The results show that from 18 articles, that the main keywords used in the study of smong are the words smong and disaster risk reduction. Then other keywords that are quite widely used are indigenous knowledge and mitigation. Some keywords that have not been commonly used in the study of smong and are not directly related to the word smong include coastal landscape ecosystem, Indonesian vocabulary, disaster education. Research highlighting smong as a research topic began to develop and was published on Scopus from 2006 to 2024. This shows that the smong topic still attracts the interest of researchers from various fields of study. Bibliometric analysis on smong topics shows the popularity of a field of study so that it can be used by researchers to determine research topic both from trends and opportunities in other fields that are still rarely carried out.