RESEARCH TRENDS IN LEAF BLIGHT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Leaf blight is a fungal infection, caused by the fungus “Helminthosporium turcicum”. Humid, wet, and rainy conditions are favourable for this infection to spread. Crop rotation is an effective way to stop this infection. This bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Leaf blight”. All published articles related to “Leaf 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 Leaf blight and also to find out the trends related to the same. Plant disease is the most active journal in this research domain, with Plant Disease having the highest number of publications and citations. Phytopathology is the journal having the highest number of co-authorship links. Journal of Biochemistry and molecular biology is the journal with the highest average citation per publication. Department of Plant Pathology and plant-microbe Biology of the Cornell University of USA is the most active organisation with the highest number of publications, citations and co-authorship links. USDA is the most productive organization with the highest number of average citation per publications. The most active author is Kumar S and Li B, with the highest number of publications and co-authorship links respectively. The most productive author is Sonti R.V and Castilla N.P with the highest citation and the highest average citation per publication respectively.