Bibliometric Analysis: The Important Role of Cooperative Economy in Indonesia

This study aims to analyze the economic role of cooperatives in Indonesia using a bibliometric approach. With data from various scholarly sources, this study explores research trends, key themes, and methodologies related to cooperatives. The analysis showed that cooperatives play an important role in the agriculture, fisheries, and MSME sectors, despite facing challenges such as capital limitations, technology adoption, and digitalization. The bibliometric visualization identified five main clusters, namely sustainability, circular economy, agroindustry, policy strengthening, and digital management. In addition, trend analysis showed that local wisdom-based cooperatives and circular economy implementation are still under-discussed and require more attention for future research. The research also revealed that cooperatives contribution to sustainable development can be strengthened through government policy support, digitalization, and technology adoption. Highly cited articles in the Scopus database indicate that cooperative-related research in Indonesia continues to grow, especially in the areas of waste management and cooperative digitalization.