Bibliometric Study on Hair-related Products Containing Natural Extracts

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine emerging trends in hair-related natural materials. For the methode of studying, text mining was carried out utilizing the statistical processing software R studio to examine the relationship between terms. With the use of this, we were able to extract the document's essential phrases and identify those that appeared frequently. As a result, the phi coefficient analysis was used to determine the terms with relatively high relevance as well as the groupings linked with "natural," "extract," "hair loss," "damage," "dyeing," and "growth." Six categories were constructed in the correlation network graph, and it was determined that the categories with the greatest concentration among them were hair growth, hair damage, and hair dyeing. The publishing type, year of publication, study method, and research subject of theses and journal theses were examined using the findings of this study. Trends were also discovered, and variations in research themes by year were compared and studied. According to the research, the quantity of papers in the topic of beauty has steadily increased since 2007, and this rise in quantity demonstrates the field's development on the academic front. Among these, it was discovered that a number of dyeing-related study results were linked to a number of dyeing-related negative effects. With regard to the study methods frequently employed in the beauty industry, the majority of papers on effect studies, characteristic studies, and impact studies—all of which were readily available—were relatively few in comparison to the number of clinical studies and actual condition studies, both of which had limited research progress. This demonstrates that although research topics are fairly equally dispersed throughout articles on different subjects, the development of study method inside the academic system is biased rather than uniform. In conclusion, investigations on natural substances that are effective on hair are increasing steadily between 2001 and 2021. This demonstrates how the view of natural materials is improving across a variety of areas and how actively research is being done to determine their usefulness.