Research output on Hantavirus: A Scientometric Study

Abstract

This paper describes results of a scientometric study on Hantavirus. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the research performance on Hantavirus during the period of 1984-March 2020. The findings indicate that in the study period, Scientists produced 3678 publications shared by 10152 authors from 122 countries and recorded 86204 Global Citations Scores. EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES is the first journal with the highest number of publication with 161 (g index-77 and h-index-43, Citations-6906) and Impact Factor value is 7.42 and 13 journals published 50 and above publications. The highest impact factor journal is LANCET (59.10) among the top 20 titles. As expected, the United States (1310) is at the top of the list of countries and recorded 44522 Global Citation Scores, followed by Germany (395) with 7720 Citations, Finland (329) and received 10439 Citations, China (309) and 4528 Citations, Sweden (246) and 7081 Citations as the countries contributing the largest numbers of articles and Citations. There were 142 papers, which have recorded 100-855 Citations, besides this the citations count has been taken as the number of citations received by each paper since these were published till March 2020. The most cited paper “GENETIC IDENTIFICATION OF A HANTAVIRUS ASSOCIATED WITH AN OUTBREAK OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY ILLNESS” by NICHOL ST, SPIROPOULOU CF, MORZUNOV S, ROLLIN PE, KSIAZEK TG, et al., 1993, SCIENCE, recorded 855 citations. Virology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology have been identified as the three high priority research areas of Hantavirus with each contributing publication share 920(25.56%), 798 (22.17%) and 486(13.50%). 13 Subjects covered more than 100 publications and 115 subject areas focused on Hantavirus research