RESEARCH TRENDS IN CROWN ROT: A GENERAL OVERVIEW

Crown rot is a fungal infection affecting plants in the regions suffering from heavy rain, flood. This plant disease is caused by the fungus, Fusarium, commonly found in the soil. The fungus affects water movement in plants by affecting the stem permanently. There are no specific solutions to recover from crown rot, and the only alternative is to take precautions against crown rot. This bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “crown rot”. All published articles related to “crown 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 literature regarding crown rot and also to find out the trends related to the same. Plant Disease journal having the highest number of publications, co-authorship links, and citations. Letters in Applied Microbiology is the journal with the highest average citation per publication. The most active and productive country is the USA with the highest number of publications and citations and Australia with the highest co-authorship linkages. Luxembourg is the country with the highest average citations per publication. The most active research organization is CSIRO Plant Industry and Department of Plant Science, of McGill University and Département De Phytologie, Université Laval are the most productive organization in this research domain. The most active authors are Chakrobothy s, with the highest number of publications and citations, and Liu C, with the highest number of publications and co-authorship links. The most productive authors are Benhamou N, Belanger R.R, and Chen C with the highest average citation per publication.