Worldwide Research Trends on Medicinal PlantsView the picture above in this article. From the abstract: "The use of medicinal plants has been done since ancient times and may even be considered the origin of modern medicine. Compounds of plant origin have been and still are an important source of compounds for drugs. In this study a bibliometric study of all the works indexed in the Scopus database until 2019 has been carried out, analyzing more than 100,000 publications."
This article was published via open-access on MDPI, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. MDPI launched in 1996 in Switzerland as a non-profit institute for the promotion and preservation of the diversity of chemical compound samples.