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

Abstract

<b>Background and Objective:</b> Ticks are well-known parasites that cause significant adverse effects on goat husbandry. They negatively affect the health of the goat and impair the economic sustainability and productivity of the animal. The present study illustrated the findings on the global research trends of scholarly literature with respect to goat ticks. <b>Materials and Methods:</b> A search keyword was done as related to the subject matter of goat ticks. All articles from the year 2024 were removed from the initial sum of 2018 documents in order to allow for the reproducibility of the method. A sum of 2013 documents was retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science Databank for evaluation using bibliometric permutations in RStudio software. After data were obtained from WoS and Scopus, they were then cleaned up and filtered before they were validated for analysis. <b>Results:</b> Research articles on goat ticks had rising research outputs of an annual increase of 7.36%. China led in the rankings with the highest amount of research outputs (n = 183) and citations (n = 3751) globally. The result also revealed the co-authors per document (n = 6.35), single-authored documents (n = 133), average citations per document (n = 18.65) and percentage of international co-authorships (18.43 %), accordingly. South Africa, Ethiopia, Tunisia and Kenya were the only African countries that were ranked among the top-rated 20 nations on goat ticks. <b>Conclusion:</b> The annual increase in research investigations on goat ticks over the seven decades of bibliometric assessments indicates the economic significance of tick-borne disease in goat farming.