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Coronavirus on Veterinary Research: a Scientometric Profile Based on CAB Direct Online International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research Vol.5; Issue: 1; Jan.-March 2020 Website: ijshr.com Review Article ISSN: 2455-7587 Coronavirus on Veterinary Research: A Scientometric Profile Based on CAB Direct Online Rajendran. L Assistant Librarian, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai – 600 051 ABSTRACT To analyse the research activities on corona virus based on the total publication output, The advantage expertise of tries to examine the its growth rate, types of publications, top performance of researchers working inside the journals publishing papers on corona virus situation of Corona virus affected in animals at research, most productive authors and international level and national distribution ranking of countries based on publication throughout the expert interval of twenty three years from 1996-2019. A whole of 691 guides output on corona virus diseases research. has been acquired from CAB Direct databases 3. Review of Literature were taken for this study. A observe of the Scientometric researches have Coronavirus studies output of calculate Mean carried out earlier via certainly one of a kind Absolute Deviation (M.A.D) of overall studying writer at the exclusive character journal the research and development within the field. publications and literature on particular trouble areas. The following researches Keywords: Coronavirus, Scientometric, CAB related to the targets of this take a look at Direct, Diseases, Calculate Mean Absolute have been reviewed. Deviation, M.A.D. Suryaman G.K. et al. (2019) an examination on Avian coronavirus has a 1. INTRODUCTION wide range of hosts, from chickens and The name "coronavirus" is derived turkeys to wild birds. This virus causes an from the Latin corona, meaning crown or economically and, possibly, halo, which refers to the characteristic environmentally, important loss in the appearance of the virus particles (virions): poultry industry. Therefore, research into they have a fringe reminiscent of a royal the avian coronavirus in various species of crown or of the solar corona. birds is required. The Eclectus parrot Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that (Eclectus roratus) is an endemic bird to cause diseases in mammals and birds. In Indonesia and Northern Australia and often cows and pigs coronaviruses cause diarrhea. kept as pets. At present, there has been In chickens they cause an upper respiratory limited information about avian coronavirus disease. Coronaviruses are viruses in the infection among birds. This study aimed to subfamily Orthocoronavirinae in the family determine the presence of and to Coronaviridae, in the order Nidovirales. characterize avian coronavirus isolated from Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses with a Eclectus parrots in Indonesia. positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome Cristina Horhogea et al., (2018) analyzed and with a nucleocapsid of helical based on Feline coronaviruses can be symmetry. The genomic size of detected in feces, diseased tissues and fluids coronaviruses ranges from approximately 26 using various methods. The difficulties for to 32 kilobases, the largest for an RNA diagnostic arise sometimes from the lack of virus. specific clinical signs and pathognomonic 2. Objective of the Study International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research (www.ijshr.com) 159 Vol.5; Issue: 1; January-March 2020 Rajendran. L. Coronavirus on veterinary research: a scientometric profile based on CAB direct online abnormalities. In this study we compared Yeong-Jun Song (2018) analyzed the results of various tests the rates of asymptomatic infection with (immunofluorescence, ELISA, RT-PCR and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) immunohistochemistry) used to identify the coronavirus vary. A serologic study was feline coronavirus in clinical samples conducted to determine the asymptomatic (feces, ascitic fluid, blood, kidney, intestine) MERS infection rate in healthcare workers harvested from 20 domestic and wild cats and non-healthcare workers by exposure (10 healthy felines and 10 felines presenting status. Study participants were selected from clinical signs of a wet form of feline contacts of MERS patients based on a infectious peritonitis). Feline coronavirus priority system in 4 regions strongly was detected in all 10 samples of feces from affected by the 2015 MERS outbreak. A the healthy cats and all ascitic fluid, 4 sero-epidemiological survey was performed intestine and 2 kidney samples from the in 1,610 contacts (average duration from felines with clinical signs. Positive exposure to test, 4.8 months), and the coronavirus antibodies titers are misleading collected sera were tested using an enzyme- because only show evidence of exposure to linked immunespecific assay (ELISA), FCoV and are not specific for FIP or EFCV immunofluorescence assay (IFA), and In conclusion, direct immunofluorescence plaque reduction neutralization antibody test assay is an alternative method to detect (PRNT). Among the 1,610 contacts, there feline coronavirus in clinical samples, were 7 ELISA-positive cases, of which 1 much faster and less expensive. Molecular exhibited positive IFA and PRNT results biology offers instead the possibility to Rajendran Lakshmanan (2018) an analyse the coronavirus strains circulating examination of The Study investigation the in Romania. exploration exercises on Leptospirosis Alfano F et al., (2018) seen that the diseases, in light of the aggregate report a case of pantropic canine distribution yield. The information is coronavirus (pCCoV) infection in an italian recovered from the CAB Direct Online wolf (Canis lupus italicus), which has been Database for a long time (1955– 2017). previously detected only in dogs. Types of documents, language, rank lists of Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the journals, most productive authors, a ranking strain detected in this wolf is closely related of countries based on their publication to strains originating from Vietnam and output are presented. China, which could be due to virus Rajendran Lakshmanan (2018) introduction through illegal importation of have demonstrated this paper, attempts to animals from these countries to Italy. The analyze quantitatively the growth and wolf also had a co-infection with canine development of Potato (Solanum parvovirus type 2b and canine adenovirus tuberosum) vegetable crop research in India type 2. In this study, we reported for the in publication output as reflected in CAB first time: the presence of pCCoV in a wolf, Direct Online Database. During the period the presence of CPV-2b in the wolf 1939-2017 a total of 1,27,234 papers were population of Campania region and the published by the scientists of global detection of CAdV-2 in wolves in Italy. respectively on Potato Crop analysis. India These findings represent an important is the top country in Agricultural research contribution to the monitoring and with its contribution of 7,258 papers which management of the European wolf is nearly (7.66%) of the global research population. In addition, the detection of output of Agricultural research followed by multiple pathogens, including the emerging the specific country are in USA with 7,056 pCCoV, in the same animal highlights the papers (7.45%). The most preferred journals crucial role of epidemiological surveys in where the American Potato Journal with European wild carnivores. 1,784 papers (1.88%) followed by the International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research (www.ijshr.com) 160 Vol.5; Issue: 1; January-March 2020 Rajendran. L. Coronavirus on veterinary research: a scientometric profile based on CAB direct online Potato Research with 1,764 papers (1.86%). slowly increasing trend value of that The study revealed that out of the world, particular length on 2000-2009. Where ∑ is India has the highest range the production of a complete quantity of publications: facts Potato. It covers India is a top level in the value obtained from mean divided by way field of agricultural research as a part of the of quantity of values. The M.A.D cost for Indian country are ranked higher position of the period 1996-2019 is worked out to Uttar Pradesh in a northern region. 21.26446673. 4. MATERIALS AND METHODS Table1. Mean Absolute Deviation of Overall Research Output Year No. Of Articles (∑) |Data Value – Mean| The look at is based at the 1996 1 30.4091 publication information on Corona Virus 1997 1 30.4091 2000 2 29.4091 research, retrieved from the CAB Direct 2001 6 25.4091 Online database for 23 years (1996-2019). 2002 5 26.4091 Coverage consists of main bibliographic 2003 6 25.4091 2004 10 21.4091 database CAB abstracts consists of 2005 14 17.4091 databases from net assets and summary 2006 18 13.4091 2007 30 1.40909 journals. CAB Direct offers get right of 2008 22 9.40909 entry to: 2009 45 13.59091 2010 44 12.59091 Over 11.5 million bibliographic records 2011 41 9.590909 Over 350,000 full text articles hosted by 2012 43 11.59091 2013 56 24.59091 CABI and 2014 41 9.590909 Many other authoritative reviews, news 2015 95 63.59091 2016 78 46.59091 articles and reports 2017 54 22.59091 CAB Direct has a clean, simple design and a 2018 51 19.59091 Google like search capability to enable the 2019 28 3.40909 691 467.818268 users to locate what is wanted quick and easily. The Advanced Search facility of The Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) of a CAB Direct Online database changed into set of data is the average distance between used for this study. The keyword each data value and the mean. While we ‘Coronavirus’ has been used in article tile could work through each of these steps on area and the search turned into performed. the calculator’s home screen, let’s instead, try to utilize the calculator’s features to 5. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS minimize our work. We will look at two 5.1 Calculate Mean Absolute Deviation different approaches to find the population (M.A.D) of Research Output MAD. It is discovered from the take a look at that the quantity of papers has been multiplied step by step i.e.
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