Exploring the intellectual and social dynamics of food sector research in the context of climate change: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract This paper explores the cross-fertilisation of literature between the food sector and climate change fields by performing a bibliometric analysis. In total, 3714 papers were retrieved from the Scopus database. Bibliographic coupling identified sixteen literature streams and their compositions. Co-authorship network analysis explored scholarly social communities. Comparing clustering results from both analyses assessed whether the intellectual closeness of communities was also social. Findings reveal that authors who mostly contributed to the two fields often participated cross-sectionally, touching upon various literature streams. Even when authors mainly dealt with one topic, they did so within heterogeneous research groups. Implications include directions for future research agenda.