The current trends and research progress globally in the plant tissue culture: 90 years of investigation
- Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. 157(3), 73, 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s11240-024-02788-4 .
Plant tissue culture (PTC) stands as a powerful and sustainable tool that can contribute significantly to addressing the challenges arising from the heavy extraction of plants, habitat destruction, excessive grazing, etc. It offers an alternative and sustainable approach to the traditional methods of plant propagation and conservation. Advancements in PTC have been rapidly evolving, emphasizing the critical need to assess the current state of research in this field. The present article aims to examine the current trends and research progress globally in the field of PTC according to the information found in the Scopus database from 1933 to 2023. This paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of existing literature on PTC to find the main topics, authors, most cited articles, and countries related to it. A global representation of the concepts was developed by an in-depth analysis of 2498 papers from the Scopus database, using a relational directory network visualization technique based on the VOSviewer software. The finding shows that year 2022 was the most productive year and India emerged as the most productive nation in terms of publications related to PTC. A steady rise of 5.44% was seen in the publishing number. Moreover, the United States has the most connections to other countries. An effort to comprehend the origins and progression of PTC throughout the previous ninety years has been made with this research. The outcome of the study will contribute to identifying future research areas of interest and highlight trending topics that will be useful for further investigation. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2024.
Subjects--Topical Terms: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS CURRENT TRENDS PLANT TISSUE CULTURE SCOPUS VOSVIEWER