A Bibliometric Study towards the Application of Herbs in an Academic Environment

Nurulwahidah Fauzi

ABSTRACT

Herbs are plants are very valuable as a food, flavonoid, medical, nutrition food and perfume. In traditional folklore, especially within a Malay people, herbs are very important in treating the disease and resolve problems faced by people who are unhealthy. The application of bibliometric study applied to analyze the progress of the article based on a specific discipline, which can be the benchmark of a productivity research. This article seeks to achieve some of important objectives, namely 1) to review the concept of bibliometric towards the application of herbs contained in academic/scientific papers, 2) to examine the types of publishing scientific papers which studying about herbs, 3) to analyze the growth of the disciplines of knowledge involved in the study of herbs. This study will use quantitative methods and analysis of inductive and deductive method to measure the phase of productivity by looking at the contribution and role of the scientific papers in this field. The results of a study undertaken by the authors find that there are only a few researches undertaken related about herbs mentioned in scholarly works that have not been studied extensively by researchers.