REVIEW AND RESEARCH TRENDS IN SOOTY MOLD CAUSING PLANT DISEASES

Sooty mold is the collective name for a different fungus causing plant diseases. This fungus lives on the sugary deposit of plants. The best way to control the sooty mold is to control the insects sucking plant sap from plants. Sooty mold results in the blockage of sunlight by a black powdery layer in plants. This bibliometric analysis has been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Sooty mold”. All published articles related to “Sooty mold” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article has set the objective to consolidate the literature regarding the sooty mold and also to find out the trends related to the same. Fungal diversity is the most active journal and Ecology Letters is the most productive journal with the highest number of average citations. New Zealand Journal of Botany is the Journal with the highest publications. The most active and productive country is the USA and Malaysia is the country with the highest average citations per publication. School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury of New Zealand is the organization with the highest number of publications. School Of Science, Mae Fah Luang University of Thailand is the organization with the highest number of co-authorship links. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University of Australia are the highly productive organizations in this research domain. The most active authors are Hughes S.J and Hyde K.D and Green P.T is the productive author with the highest citation rate.