Table 2.

Top 10 countries in biopolymer research based on the number of publications.

Country	Papers	Citations	Most cited paper
Brazil	29	1265	Espitia et al. [51]
China	28	833	Guo et al. [52]
Italy	27	985	Mascheroni et al. [53]
India	27	579	Naqash et al. [54]
Spain	23	139	Benito-Gonzáles et al. [55]
France	13	335	Fotie et al. [56]
United States	12	292	Abdalla et al. [57]
Germany	10	241	Habel et al. [58]
Thailand	9	330	Adhikari et al. [59]
Iran	8	251	Hosseini et al. [60]