Advancing Sustainable Food Consumption: A Bibliometric Analysis of Practice Theory in Food Studies

The application of practice theory to food studies has gained remarkable momentum over the past two decades, offering a powerful framework to move beyond individualist accounts of behavior toward systemic understandings of consumption. Despite this growing relevance, research in this area remains dispersed across disciplines and lacks a consolidated overview of its intellectual evolution. This article addresses this gap through a bibliometric analysis of 189 documents indexed in Scopus between 2008 and 2025. Using the Bibliometrix R-package, the study maps publication trends, identifies leading authors and journals, and examines the thematic structure and conceptual evolution of the field.