**2. Materials and Methods**

The data analyzed in this work have been obtained through a query in the Scopus database, which has been successfully used in a large number of bibliometric studies [41]. Due to the large amount of results, it was necessary to use the Scopus API to download the data, whose methodology has been developed in previous works [42,43]. In this study, the query used was: (TITLE-ABS-KEY("medic\* plant\*")). An outline of the methodology used is shown in Figure 1. The analysis of the scientific communities, both in terms of keywords and the relationship between authors or between countries was done with the SW VosViewer [44].

**Figure 1.** Methodology.
