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Abstract

The growing availability of large bibliographic databases and analytical tools has accelerated the adoption of bibliometric methods across research fields worldwide. In Indonesia, bibliometric approaches have been widely applied across diverse domains; however, existing studies remain largely discipline-specific and lack a comprehensive national-level overview of how bibliometric research itself has developed. This study addresses this gap by conducting a systematic bibliometric analysis of bibliometric publications produced by Indonesian researchers. A total of 532 publications published between 2017 and 2025 were retrieved from the Scopus database and analyzed using bibliometric techniques, including descriptive analysis of study characteristics, co-authorship analysis, co-citation analysis, and keyword co-occurrence analysis with VOSviewer. The findings reveal that the development of bibliometric research in Indonesia has progressed through two phases: an initiation phase (2017–2020), characterized by relatively few but highly cited publications, and an expansion phase (2021–2026), marked by rapid growth and broader adoption across disciplines. These findings indicate that bibliometrics has evolved into a cross-disciplinary methodological bridge within the Indonesian research landscape, although its future development may depend on stronger integration between quantitative mapping techniques and theoretically grounded domain analysis.

Bahasa Abstract

Perkembangan database bibliografi berskala besar serta berbagai alat analisis telah mempercepat penggunaan metode bibliometrik di berbagai bidang penelitian di seluruh dunia. Di Indonesia, pendekatan bibliometrik telah digunakan di berbagai bidang. Namun, sebagian besar penelitian masih bersifat disiplin-spesifik dan belum memetakan secara komprehensif perkembangan penelitian bibliometrik pada tingkat nasional. Studi ini mengatasi kesenjangan tersebut dengan melakukan analisis bibliometrik terhadap publikasi bibliometrik yang dihasilkan oleh peneliti Indonesia. Sebanyak 532 publikasi yang diterbitkan antara tahun 2017 dan 2025 diambil dari database Scopus dan dianalisis menggunakan teknik bibliometrik, termasuk analisis deskriptif mengenai karakteristik publikasi, analisis co-authorship, analisis co-citation, dan analisis keyword co-occurrence dengan VOSviewer. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa perkembangan penelitian bibliometrik di Indonesia telah melalui dua fase: fase inisiasi (2017–2020), yang ditandai dengan jumlah publikasi yang relatif sedikit tetapi banyak dikutip, dan fase ekspansi (2021–2026), yang ditandai dengan pertumbuhan pesat dan adopsi yang lebih luas di berbagai disiplin ilmu. Temuan ini menunjukkan bahwa bibliometrik telah berkembang menjadi jembatan metodologis lintas disiplin dalam lanskap penelitian Indonesia, meskipun perkembangannya di masa depan mungkin bergantung pada integrasi yang lebih kuat antara teknik pemetaan kuantitatif dan analisis domain yang berlandaskan teori.

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