Purpose - Academic research on online food delivery has mainly addressed its economic and social implications. Due to technological advancement, online food delivery services have grown in popularity in Malaysia. The Internet and mobile technology make it easy to use mobile devices to access online food delivery services.

Methodology - This study aimed to analyse the bibliometric characteristics of worldwide research trends, publication growth, publishing outputs by nations, themes of interest, and author keyword co-occurrences. This article presents a bibliometric analysis of online food delivery services, which was conducted using the VOS viewer software and data retrieved from the Scopus database. The Scopus database yielded around 893 papers published between 1995 and 2022.

Findings - The findings highlighted that medicine accounted for most of the papers, followed by business, management, accounting, computer science, and social sciences. The "COVID-19 epidemic" appears the most frequently in the publications, followed by "e-commerce." The results highlighted the co-occurrences of author keywords, "covid-19 pandemic," has 103 linkages.

Novelty - This supports the claims made in the earlier studies that the COVID-19 pandemic had affected consumer choices for online food delivery services. It can be inferred that future studies may use the findings to explore problems with online meal delivery services.

Type of Paper - Empirical

Keywords: Bibliometric Analysis; Scopus Database; VOS Viewer; Online Food Delivery; E-Commerce

JEL Classification: M31, M39.

URI: http://gatrenterprise.com/GATRJournals/JMMR/vol7.3_8.html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2022.7.3(8)

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