Analysis of Technology Dissemination in Crop Production: Mapping Research Trends using Scopus

Abstract— The existing global framework of research on agricultural technology dissemination in crop production is still multidisciplinary and has not been integrated. This study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis on 346 documents indexed in Scopus from 1986 to 2025 in order to map the evolution, structure, and emerging frontiers of scholarly work on agricultural technology diffusion. Moreover, this work utilized statistical methods and network mapping in R software to analyze growth trajectories as well as identify key authors, institutions, countries, and their collaboration patterns. Although India documented the most output (13.3% of documents), it had very few international partnerships. Conversely, Kenya achieved the highest average citation impact through extensive cross-border collaboration despite having fewer articles. Also, ICRISAT, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, and ICAR-IARI, which are all in the region and serve as centers of agri-innovation, stood out as leading institutions. From the co-occurrence of keywords, some broad agronomic topics have been shifted toward more advanced concepts such as sustainability, climate resilience, and precision agriculture, which helps to reflect the global food security agenda. Longitudinal analyses point out an inflection point (turning point) around the year 2008, after which the terms “food security”, “climate change”, and “precision farming” started to emerge more frequently. Although there is rapid growth at a rate of 7.4% per year, it is evident that there is stagnant growth due to a lack of critical infrastructure, limited access to credit, poor extension services, and largely unexplored mechanisms for marketing, financing, and adoption on a large scale. This study creates an evidence-based roadmap by mapping the gaps in the field’s intellectual structure and highlighting under-researched areas. This roadmap can be utilised by researchers, policymakers, and extension agents to streamline future investigations, collaborations, and devise strategic interventions that expedite the global dissemination of transformative technologies to farmers.