A scientometric mapping of research on Aeromonas infection in fish across the world (1998–2020).

Abstract

Aeromonas spp are the most common devastating fsh bacterial pathogens associated with a wide range of cultured freshwater fsh resulting in mass mortality. The present study plots the Aeromonas research output in fsh during 1998–2020 by means of the Web of Science (WoS) database. A total of 1944 publications were used for this investigation to evaluate the scientifc productivity in this selected subject area. Global publication share, rank, and its development in terms of research and bibliometric indices such as overall citations, h-index, and average citation per paper were also analysed. China ranked frst in terms of total publications among the most productive countries and accounted for 26.18% of the total publications. The network visualisation map revealed that the lead collaborating country was China; however, the collaboration between countries was found to be very less. Lokta’s law was noticed not to be valid for Aeromonas research. The study showed that the funding granted to the research investigations and their research productivity in terms of total publications were correlated positively. The results of the current study displayed the trend of “Aeromonas infection in fsh” related research investigations published during 1998–2020. This study also highlighted the focused research areas on this topic on which the future areas of research can be determined by fellow researchers in this specifc feld. This study also suggests enhancing the research eforts on this bacterial pathogen which has the potential to implicate huge economic loss to the fsh farming population in the world.