Analytical Chemistry in Malaysia: A Semi-Centennial Research Perspective (1973-2022)

To date, there is no quantitative data on published research in analytical chemistry by Malaysian scholars.This study briefly assessed scientific productivity in the domain of analytical chemistry in Malaysia using bibliometric approaches.A total of 3,259 documents, spanning five decades from 1973 to 2022, were retrieved from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database within the Web of Science (WoS), by employing keyword searches.Five Malaysian research universities dominated the field, with the highest number of publications led by Universiti Malaya.The journal Sensors recorded the highest number of publications ( 817) and the highest h-index of 60, making it the most published journal by Malaysian scholars in this area.Visualization analysis using VOSviewer revealed seven main research clusters in Malaysia at the time: characterisation of biomolecules had gained academic attention, while nanotechnology and computational modelling related to analytical chemistry had shown much progress and become major research areas.This study should be helpful for scholars deciding on research prospects in analytical chemistry.