Bemisia tabaci, a global invader: A 49-year bibliometric analysis

A literature search was conducted on the Web of Science database was conducted to identify all relevant articles from 1971 to 2020 on Bemisia tabaci. The search string yielded 4819 articles, of which all were eligible for quantitative analysis. The annual growth rate was -1.28%, and the majority of the papers were written by authors based in the USA, followed by China. Among the top 20 journals, the top three were entomology journals, namely the Journal of Economic Entomology, Pest Management Science, and Environmental Entomology. The author who wrote the most articles was Lui SS with 125 articles (24.19 fractionalized articles), whereas the most citated author was Brown JK with 646 citations (24.8462 total citations per year). Based on the results, continued collaboration among different countries at varying economic developmental stages is encouraged in order to better understand how to stem the tide of invasive species and their associated impacts

本研究以Web of Science数据库（Web of Science）为检索平台，针对1971年至2020年间所有与烟粉虱（Bemisia tabaci）相关的文献开展系统检索。本次检索共获取4819篇文献，全部符合定量分析的纳入标准。该领域文献的年均增长率为-1.28%，且绝大多数论文的作者单位位于美国，其次为中国。在刊载相关文献的前20种期刊中，排名前三的均为昆虫学类期刊，依次为《经济昆虫学杂志（Journal of Economic Entomology）》、《害虫管理科学（Pest Management Science）》及《环境昆虫学（Environmental Entomology）》。发文量最高的作者为Lui SS，累计发表125篇论文（折合分数化论文24.19篇）；而总被引次数最高的作者为Brown JK，总被引频次达646次（年均总被引24.8462次）。基于上述研究结果，本研究倡议不同经济发展水平的国家间开展持续合作，以更好地探究如何遏制入侵物种及其关联危害的蔓延趋势。