Bibliometric analysis of research aspects of simple sequence repeats in cultivars

Abstract

Simple sequence repeats are ubiquitous patterns found in prokaryotes and eukaryote genome sequences. Identification and analysis of simple sequence repeat in chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences of several crop cultivars and environmentally significant plants have been performed to study genetic diversity, genetic variations, molecular breeding, gene discovery, disease identification, and hypervariability. Considering the versatile nature of microsatellites, a bibliometric analysis of the published global literature related to the study of microsatellites in cultivars from the web of science core collection database was analyzed by VOSviewer to gain insight into the frontier research topics, key researchers, institutes, current trends, technology, full citations and, lead publisher etc. A total of 1700 publications were retrieved, with an average article citation of 22.91 and an H index of 77. In addition, the frontier topics of research and technologies involved were explored from the abstract and title field. This study gives insight into the current and future scientific trends in the identification and analysis of microsatellites in cultivar's genome sequences. Also, it may help professionals and other stakeholders to fill the gap in microsatellites-related research in crops.