In this comprehensive review we analyze the intellectual structure of the halal food research based on 290 Web of Science (WoS) core collection documents written by 633 authors from 41 countries over three decades (1990–2019). The review adopts a knowledge domain visualization technique to explore the basic bibliometric/scientometric profile of the field, its influential authors, its core journals, its representative references, its collaborative patterns, its research hotspots/emerging trends, its changing paradigms and its knowledge/intellectual structure. We also borrow concepts from social network analysis to uncover and map out structural attributes of communication networks in the field as well as to illuminate how different actors exchange information. Social network analysis shows that halal food research networks reflect what is sometimes called the Matthew Effect in sociology-a mechanism akin to the preferential attachment in which a small number of hubs have larger number of connections compared to the rest of actors. We further use burst detection techniques to visually explore halal food research fronts and its distinct schools of thought (the so-called ‘invisible colleges’). By so doing, we provide a window through which the knowledge domain of halal food landscape can be examined.

在这份全面的综述中，我们基于290个Web of Science（WoS）核心馆藏文件（由来自41个国家的633位作者在过去的三十年间（1990-2019年）撰写的290份Web of Science（WoS）核心文献）中分析了清真食品研究的知识结构。该评论采用知识领域可视化技术来探索该领域的基本文献计量/科学计量概况，其影响力的作者，其核心期刊，其代表性参考文献，其合作模式，其研究热点/新兴趋势，其变化的范式及其知识/智力结构。我们还借鉴了社交网络分析的概念，以发现和绘制现场通信网络的结构属性，并阐明不同参与者之间如何交换信息。社交网络分析表明，清真食品研究网络反映了社会学中有时被称为马修效应的一种机制，类似于偏好依恋的机制，在这种依恋中，少数枢纽与其他参与者相比具有更多的联系。我们进一步使用爆发检测技术从视觉上探索清真食品研究前沿及其独特的思想流派（所谓的“隐形学院”）。通过这样做，我们提供了一个窗口，通过该窗口可以检查清真食品景观的知识领域。我们进一步使用爆发检测技术从视觉上探索清真食品研究前沿及其独特的思想流派（所谓的“隐形学院”）。通过这样做，我们提供了一个窗口，通过该窗口可以检查清真食品景观的知识领域。我们进一步使用爆发检测技术从视觉上探索清真食品研究前沿及其独特的思想流派（所谓的“隐形学院”）。通过这样做，我们提供了一个窗口，通过该窗口可以检查清真食品景观的知识领域。