Modeling the Growth of Bacterial Blight Research Literature

Abstract: Present study demonstrates the growth of bacterial blight research publications indexed in the Web of Science for the period 1997 to 2021 (25 years). Found that total 4418 research publications with a steady growth of publications for entire study period from 1.36% (60) to 9.10% (402) publications. Relative Growth Rate (RGR) decreased from 0.74 in the year 1997 to 0.09 in the year 2020 with average Relative Growth Rate of 0.18. The Doubling Time (Dt.) of publications increased over period from 0.80 in the year 1989 to 8.31. The distribution for global literature is positively skewed for all the block periods except 2002-2006. Growth of bacterial blight literature best fits in polynomial or order 2 curves with R2 value is 0.977.

Keywords: Scientometric, Bacterial Blight; plant diseases; bibliometric; growth model.