VISUALISATION OF RESEARCH TRENDS IN ASTER YELLOW DISEASE IN PLANT: AN OVERVIEW

Aster Yellow is a plant disease affected by Phytoplasmas among flowers and vegetables. It’s a serious plant disease to control and over three hundred plant species are susceptible to the attack of aster yellow disease. No concrete treatment is available for this plant. This bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of aster yellow, a plant disease. All published articles related to “aster yellow” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the literature regarding aster yellow disease and also to find out the trends related to the same. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is the journal with the highest productivity. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology is the journal with the highest number of citations. The most active country is the USA with the highest number of publications, citations, Percentage of citation to total citations, and co-authorship linkages. However, New Zealand is the country with the highest average citation. Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture is the organization with the highest number of publications. The most active author is Bertaccini Awith the highest number of publications, total citations, and co-authorship links. The productive author with the highest average citation is Rehner S.A.