Bibliometric Analysis of Worldwide Research Studies on Goat Ticks: A Seven Decade Outlook

Abstract

This study illustrates the results trends of academic literatures in line with goat ticks globally. An aggregate of 1204 documents was Web of Science (WOS) data archive for evaluation utilizing bibliometric analysis. From the study, the result presented comprised, relevant subject matters in the field of study, global citations, affiliated organizations, source of documents as well as vital keywords and keywords plus associated with the research niche area on the subject matter, among others. Articles involving ticks in small ruminants (goats) increased in research numbers with yearly rise of 8.53 %. Country like China leads the chat with peak number of research numbers (n = 141), with highest number of article citations (n = 2955). The single-authored documents gave, n = 49, while the co-authors per documents gave, n = 6.21, but the mean citations per article gave, n = 19.04, accordingly. The nation of South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya as well as Tunisia were also listed as the African nations in the best performing regions with high research outputs on goat and ticks. Nations with multiple country publications (MCPs) had China, Pakistan, USA and Germany lead the order, respectively. The findings indicated China (n = 2955), USA (n = 2052), Germany (n = 1637), Turkey (n = 1301) and South Africa (n = 1121) ranked highest with regards to the total citations on goat ticks research, globally. The increase (annual rise of 8.53%) in outputs on studies done with goat ticks over the study period of the bibliometric evaluation shows the economic role of ticks in goat husbandry.