Abstract

Author(s): Mahendra Kumar Patel*, Maya Verma

Over the past few years, monkeypox has gained attention and concern. This rare viral disease, similar to smallpox, is caused by the monkeypox virus and primarily affects animals such as rodents, monkeys, and other mammals in Central and West Africa. The aim of the study is to analyze the growth and trend of monkeypox research at global level from 1989 to 2023 and data has been retrieved from Web of Science database. The analysis includes source-wise, country-wise, author-wise distribution, Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (DT). The study found that 484 articles were scattered in 155 journals. The most productive journal is found to be Journal of Virology with 126 articles followed by Virology with 41 articles. Ruml T was the most productive author during the study period and published 75 articles and received 1208 Global citation score. USA, Czech Republic were the most contributing countries in the world. Bradford’s law of scattering is tested and found the data set is not fitted in this law. The Bradford’s multiplier is 8.81 and found error percentage is high i.e., 10.6.