Global Research Trends on Monkeypox Virus: A Bibliometric and Visualized Study

Abstract

Monkeypox is a zoonotic viral disease that has recently emerged as another global infection disease. A double-stranded enveloped deoxyribonucleic acid virus the cause of this disease. Since monkeypox is an evolving field of study with a growing interest in public health, it is crucial to study the scientific trend and research activities. This study provides an essential insight into the research response to scientific trends of monkeypox using the bibliometric analysis technique. A literature search for published articles on LSD from 2001 to 2021 was conducted in Scopus on 24 July 2022. Visualization analysis was performed using R statistical software. The growth and trend of documents, country-level distribution of publications and collaborations, and the relationship between authors and co-authors were analyzed. Findings revealed a significant increase in the research conducted, mainly from the United States (US). The top 12 institutions published papers on the monkeypox virus, accounting for 33.09 percent of the articles. The US was the most productive nation, producing 275 documents (54.34%), or one-third of all publications in this sector worldwide. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia in the United States were the organization that produced the most (365 publications). The Journal of Virology garnered the most citations, with an h-index of 18. In the last year, there has been an increase in the publication of monkeypox virus-related studies. The importance of the monkeypox virus highlights the necessity for continued research to help international health organizations identify areas that require prompt action to implement suitable solutions. This study also provides scaling-up analysis, evidence dissemination on the monkeypox virus, emerging hotspots, and perceptive remarks on the technological advances in this field.

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“…All the mentioned countries are economically developed. Similar to our findings, previous studies on scientific productivity have shown that economically developed countries are more productive regarding scientific studies (16)(17)(18)(19)(20).…”

“…It causes an increasing number of cases, especially in children and immunosuppressants, owing to respiratory tract infections (3,4). Although bibliometric studies, a popular method today, have been conducted for many popular or traditional infectious etiologic agents and viruses (14,(16)(17)(18)(19), our study is the first to evaluate hMPV in the literature.…”

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“…Our results showed that Mpox was the most neglected branch compared with the other three orthopoxvirus genus, such as variola virus, cowpox virus, and vaccinia virus. However, the latest studies demonstrated that the number of Mpox-related publications on epidemiology data, outbreak surveillance, treatment, prevention, vaccines, and so on is showing a blowout trend [ 4 ]. Nevertheless, the emergence of a large amount of information about Mpox may lead to information overload problems and make it difficult for public or scholars to find reliable sources of information and direction.…”

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“…Triple-burden diseases, particularly the concomitant incidence of Mpox, HIV, and STIs in the LGBTQIA2S + community, have not been extensively documented in the literature. Therefore, this study uniquely contributes to this eld [53][54][55]. This study used two tools, namely, PoP (Publish or Perish) for literature collection and Vosviewer to analyze keywords further.…”

“…The larger the occurrence of keywords, the larger the text and circles and the higher the correlation. Occurrences with shorter distances indicate greater power, whereas longer distances have less power (the distance between nodes represents the strength of the relationship between two nodes) [53,54,56].…”