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Article · Journal of Smart and Sustainable Farming · November 30, 2025

Mapping Research Trends in Satellite Imagery Applications for Agriculture: A Bibliometric Analysis

Albin Hodza, Arulmurugan Ramu

Arulmurugan Ramu
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Abstract

This research involves wide-ranging bibliometric research pertaining to the application of satellite images in agriculture from the late 1970s to the middle of 2025. Data from the Web of Science database were analyzed to understand the trends in publications, the patterns of citations, and the research in different parts of the world. Publications of different years were analyzed in order to understand the impact of major countries and to rank the journals based on productivity and impact. After 2017, there was a significant increase in research, and the USA, China and India were all major contributors in terms of the number of researchers and publications. Some study impact was not as good as expected based on the number of publications, while in others it was. The remote sensing field is largely dominated by IEEE journals which have a very high average citation rate per paper published.

scientometrics and bibliometrics researchRemote Sensing in AgricultureRemote Sensing and Land Usesatellite imageryagricultural remote sensingresearch trends

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