Using bibliometric analysis and CNKI database, the literature about peony seed oil published in academic journals in China from 1999 to 2019 was analyzed, including the annual distribution of literature, the distribution of subject topics, supporting funds, main research institutes, core authors, and main published journals. The results showed that the extraction and health function of peony seed oil were the hot spots in recent years. It was pointed out that the research on peony seed oil in the future should be strengthened in five aspects: breeding of new varieties of peony seed with high oil content, development of intelligent special processing equipment for peony seed oil, research on oxidation stability of peony seed oil, development of high value series products of peony seed oil and comprehensive utilization technology of by-products of peony seed oil processing. |