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Livestock Systems, Management and Environment

Buffalo welfare: a literature review from 1992 to 2023 with a text mining and topic analysis approach

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Pages 570-584 | Received 07 Feb 2024, Accepted 18 Mar 2024, Published online: 15 Apr 2024

Figures & data

Figure 1. Preprocessing of scientific literature on raw data to obtain the final dataset. Information about exclusion is showed in the picture. Examples of not-relevant papers were infectious diseases and papers about the welfare of buffalo city (NY) population.

Figure 1. Preprocessing of scientific literature on raw data to obtain the final dataset. Information about exclusion is showed in the picture. Examples of not-relevant papers were infectious diseases and papers about the welfare of buffalo city (NY) population.

Figure 2. Peer-reviewed articles on the welfare of buffaloes published within the period 1992–2023.

Figure 2. Peer-reviewed articles on the welfare of buffaloes published within the period 1992–2023.

Figure 3. Distribution of published papers by journal name (with at least 2 papers published on the topic in the period considered).

Figure 3. Distribution of published papers by journal name (with at least 2 papers published on the topic in the period considered).

Figure 4. Graph bar depicting the distribution of the 148 scientific literature records selected for inclusion per continent (a) and country (b).

Figure 4. Graph bar depicting the distribution of the 148 scientific literature records selected for inclusion per continent (a) and country (b).

Figure 5. Histogram of the most relevant words based on their weight (TF-IDF >1) of 148 documents selected for inclusion in the study.

Figure 5. Histogram of the most relevant words based on their weight (TF-IDF >1) of 148 documents selected for inclusion in the study.

Figure 6. Word cloud with the most frequent words.

Figure 6. Word cloud with the most frequent words.

Table 1. Correlation about the most frequent words (TF-IDF ≥ 1) and the other words present in the documents analysed.

Figure 7. Result of topic analysis. For each topic the 10 most frequent words were shown. Some topics had more than 10 words because of the same beta value. Beta denoted the relative probability of each term belonging to that topic.

Figure 7. Result of topic analysis. For each topic the 10 most frequent words were shown. Some topics had more than 10 words because of the same beta value. Beta denoted the relative probability of each term belonging to that topic.

Table 2. Name of each topic, number of publications per topic, R2, p-value, country of prevalence and year of the first publications. The signs (+ or -) near the R2 denoted a positive or negative trend.

Data availability statement

Data will be shared on request.