Scientometric Analysis on Rice Research under Drought, Waterlogging or Abrupt Drought-Flood Alternation Stress

Many studies have shown that abiotic stresses could severely impact crop growth and yield, but a comprehensive review from bibliometric perspective is lacking. This study explores how the research direction of rice under drought, waterlogging or both has evolved over past three decades, based on analysis using Vosviewer 1.6.15 HistCite Pro. Data were collected academic database Web Science. The results showed 12 journals had high number publications highly local citations. Meanwhile, Field Crops Research, Journal Experimental Botany Plant Physiology be most influential leaders in this field. author Arvind Kumar highest contribution to output articles, Lizhong Xiong greater China, Chinese institutions, dominant terms Japan, Germany, UK institutions USA Japan higher quality average. Scholars are concerned with transgenic methods for improving productivity increasing stress tolerance; topics cultivars, irrigation, water-use efficiency soil fertility may gradually shifting single theme intertwining themes genomics abiotic/biotic resistance climate change future.