Mapping the Research output on Hantavirus: The Global Perspective

Abstract

Bibliometric and scientometric techniques have been applied to present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the publication output on Hantavirus. Data for the study have been collected from the Web of Science database for the period 1984 to March 2020. Among the 3678 papers published in the span of 37 years by 10152 authors from 122 Countries. 13 Countries contributed more than 100 publication each and 19 Countries recorded more than 1000 Citations each. The highest number of Citations (8388), h index(54), g-index is 91 received by “Peters CJ”(54). It was interesting to know some authors published less number of publications and received highest number of Citations. Centers Disease Control & Prevent (USA) has highest Citation value (11551) closely followed by University of New Mexico (USA) (10279). EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES in 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.