Document Type : Research Article
Abstract
Alternaria rot disease is a fungal infection affecting plants and trees. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Alternaria rot”. All published articles related to “Alternaria rot” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding the “Alternaria rot” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain were identified as Plant Disease, Plant Journal, and Postharvest Biology and Technology. The most active countries were the United States of America and Portugal. The leading organizations engaged in the research regarding Alternaria rot were the Agricultural Research Organization of Israel and USDA Agricultural Research Service of the United States of America. The most active authors who had made valuable contributions related to Alternaria rot disease were Wang Y. and Akimitsu K.
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