The Application of Bibliometric Analysis in Examining the Research Results on Vulnerability and Resilience of the Local Community on environmental change: A VOSviewer and Rstudio-Based Literature Review

¹ Doctoral Program of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
² Department of Socio Economics of Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
³ The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam
⁴ Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Khairun University, Ternate, Indonesia

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Abstract

The vulnerability and resilience of local communities in the context of environmental change are spread across multiple fields of study, presenting challenges in knowledge synthesis and the identification of research gaps. This study aimed to show and analyze the global research landscape regarding the vulnerability and resilience of local communities in relation to environmental changes caused by the extractive mining industry. The finding of this study was expected to provide a comprehensive picture of the condition and description of research results on the vulnerability and resilience topic. Furthermore, to achieve the objective of this study, we used bibliometric analysis with the VOSviewer and RStudio approaches. The results showed a total of 408 publications published between 2005 and 2025 were identified in the Scopus database in 20 years. The predominant sources of scientific article publication statistics are three countries—the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. The majority of publications explore the correlation between vulnerability and resilience concerning environmental change associated with disasters or natural hazards. No distinctive correlation exists between local community vulnerability and resilience concerning the extractive mega-mining industry.