BLOSSOM BLIGHT: RECENT STUDIES ON ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION OF RESEARCH TRENDS

Blossom blight is a fungal infection affecting plants, resulting in the death of flower and fruit. Blossom blight is common among mangoes, plums, almonds and apricots. Blossom blight makes a colour change to brown and affects stem also. Blossom blight is caused by a fungus “Monilinia fructicola”. This bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “blossom blight”. All published articles related to “blossom blight” 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 blossom blight and also to find out the trends related to the same. Plant disease is the most active journal in this research domain. Annual Review of Phytopathology is the most productive journal. The most active and productive country is the USA. Morden Research and Development Centre, of Canada is the most active organisation with the highest number of publications. Total Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, of Oregon State University is the organisation with the highest number of citation. The most productive organisation in this research domain is MAF Technology, Plant Protection Group, of New Zealand with the highest average citation per documents. The Federal University of Pelotas is the organisation with the highest co-authorship links. The most active author is Stockwell V.O. with the highest number of publications and total citations. Fox S.L is the author with the highest co-authorship links.