Tropical Medicine in China: Bibliometric Analysis Based on Web of Science (2010–2019)

Li, Zhen; Xue, Jing-Bo; Zheng, Bin

doi:10.1155/2021/4267230

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“…The co-authorship of the 783 documents was assessed on the level of regions, organizations, and authors, from ‘macroscopic’ to ‘microscopic’. The VOSviewer software widely used in knowledge domain visualization was employed henceforth [36-38] . In the visualized networks, the diameter of an item represented the strength (publication number) and the boldness of a connecting line was proportional to the link strength (frequency of co-authorship of co-occurrence).…”

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Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Zhang¹,

Zhong²,

Luo³

et al. 2023

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has created enormous medical and economic burdens on human society. However, the co-existence of COVID-19 and diseases in tropical regions is not taken seriously. To improve the understanding of the current status and trends on crosstalk of COVID-19 and tropical diseases, this paper provided an analysis, from a bibliometric perspective, of the COVID-19-related publications in ″Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals. Methods: We used Clarivate Analytics and VOSviewer to analyze 783 publications in seven ″ Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals. Document overview, basic bibliometric characteristics, citation performance, co-authorship, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence of keywords and terms were summarized in this article. Results: Document overview revealed that 76.12% of the related publications were published in open access mode, and basic bibliometric characteristics indicated that the year 2021 was the peak of the number of publications, the documents in the seven journals were unevenly distributed, and ″ article″ was the main publication type. The citation performance analysis elucidated that the documents of interest were frequently cited. The co-authorship analysis showed cooperation networks on the level of region, organization and author. General knowledge of COVID-19 was the overlap of co-citation and bibliographic coupling behavior. Finally, the co-occurrence of keywords and terms revealed the current and emerging hotspots. Conclusions: The main current research focuses in ″Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals are the clinical features of COVID-19 patients, and the emerging trends are the hesitancy in making vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and the circumstance where COVID-19 coexisted with tropical diseases. In summary, this bibliometric analysis of COVID-19-related studies in seven ″Tropical Medicine″-entitled journals highlights the current research focuses of this field to inspire future studies.

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Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Zhang¹,

Zhong²,

Luo³

et al. 2023

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“…Banana leaf spot, including banana black leaf streak and banana Cordana leaf spot, is one of the most prevalent banana diseases. It has become a primary aggressive disease in all the regions in which bananas are grown, including Asia, South America, and Africa [13].…”

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“…To date, tropical and subtropical plant diseases and pests [5,[13][14][15][16][17][18] and invasive organisms [19] found all over the world had been systematically summarized by different researchers.…”

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“…The key harmful pests that must be closely monitored in Kiribati and Fiji include coconut lethal yellowing [13,20,21], Mariana coconut beetle (Brontispa mariana Spaeth) and blue coconut leaf beetle (Brontispa chalybepennis (Zacher)), citrus huanglongbing, areca palm yellow leaf, and red palm weevil, which have emerged as serious threats in neighboring countries or regions. Coconut lethal yellowing (CLY) is a devastating disease [13], which occurs in South America, Africa, and Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, and other places) [20,21]. Bogia coconut syndrome is also a devastating disease similar to CLY, which has been reported in Papua New Guinea [22].…”

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“…Banana Fusarium wilt disease (also known as Panama disease) is becoming the most devastating disease of banana plantations all over the world [23]. Citrus huanglongbing is a lethal disease that seriously threatens the citrus industry worldwide [24,25], and both it and citrus canker are listed as quarantine diseases in many countries [13,18]. Areca palm yellow disease has also caused serious losses to the betel nut (Areca catechu L.) industry in India [14] and in Hainan Province in China [26].…”

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Investigation of Agricultural Diseases and Pests in the Republic of Kiribati and the Republic of Fiji

Qinghua,

Lilan,

Qinglong

et al. 2024

IJAAS

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The Republic of Kiribati (Kiribati) and the Republic of Fiji (Fiji) are two island countries in the Middle and Eastern Pacific Ocean, respectively. Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.), banana (Musa spp.), sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.), and breadfruit (Artocarpus incisa (Thunb.) L.) are the primary economic crops. To date, there have been few reports on the status of agricultural diseases and pests in these countries. From June 6 to June 16, 2023, our team investigated agricultural diseases and pests in Kiribati and Fiji. Thirty-six diseases, five pests and one parasitic plant from twenty-eight species of plants were identified in Kiribati. Among the deleterious organisms, coconut gray spot (Pestalotiopsis palmarum (Cooke) Steyaert), banana Cordana leaf spot (Cordana musae (Zimm) Hhon), hala (pandanus) leaf blight (Unidentified pathogen), breadfruit anthracnose (Colletotrichum spp.), frangipani rust (Coleosporium plumierae Pat.) and noni anthracnose (Colletotrichum spp.) were predominant. A total of twenty-seven diseases and one parasitic plant were identified on twenty-one species of plants in Fiji. Mango bacterial black spot (Xanthomonas campestris pv. mangiferaeindicae), banana black leaf streak (Pseudocercospora musae (Zimm.) Deighton), pumpkin virus disease (Unidentified), and frangipani rust (Coleosporium plumierae Pat.) were prevalent. The results of our survey could provide the governments of Kiribati and Fiji with basic data to control the primary agricultural diseases and pests in their countries.

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Highly cited tropical medicine articles in the Web of Science from 1991 to 2020: A bibliometric analysis

Mónge-Nájera

2023

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Background An adequate response to health needs to include the identification of research patterns about the large number of people living in the tropics and subjected to tropical diseases. Studies have shown that research does not always match the real needs of those populations, and that citation reflects mostly the amount of money behind particular publications. Here we test the hypothesis that research from richer institutions is published in better-indexed journals, and thus has greater citation rates. Methods The data in this study were extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded database; the 2020 journal Impact Factor (IF2020) was updated to 30 June 2021. We considered places, subjects, institutions and journals. Results We identified 1041 highly cited articles with ≥100 citations in the category of tropical medicine. About a decade is needed for an article to reach peak citation. Only two COVID-19–related articles were highly cited in the last 3 y. The most cited articles were published by the journals Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil), Acta Tropica (Switzerland) and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (USA). The USA dominated five of the six publication indicators. International collaboration articles had more citations than single-country articles. The UK, South Africa and Switzerland had high citation rates, as did the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA and the WHO in Switzerland. Conclusions About 10 y of accumulated citations is needed to achieve ≥100 citations as highly cited articles in the Web of Science category of tropical medicine. Six publication and citation indicators, including authors’ publication potential and characteristics evaluated by Y-index, indicate that the currently available indexing system places tropical researchers at a disadvantage against their colleagues in temperate countries, and suggest that, to progress towards better control of tropical diseases, international collaboration should increase, and other tropical countries should follow the example of Brazil, which provides significant financing to its scientific community.

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Tropical Medicine in China: Bibliometric Analysis Based on Web of Science (2010–2019)

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Current Status and Emerging Trends of COVID-19-related Studies in Seven ‘Tropical Medicine’-entitled Journals

Investigation of Agricultural Diseases and Pests in the Republic of Kiribati and the Republic of Fiji

Highly cited tropical medicine articles in the Web of Science from 1991 to 2020: A bibliometric analysis

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