Global Scientific Productivity of Top Four Journals of Virology Over Three Decades: A Scientometrics Study

Trends in Virology research have been inclined after outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic. The main objective this study is to identifying and visualizing the scientometric indicators top four highly productive journals publishing papers on area related research. data collected 5 January 2022 from Web Science all relevant global publications Then, were restricted 4 field. An Exploratory descriptive analysis bibliographic (number publication/citations yearly output, growth rate, authorship collaborative pattern, countries) by using Bibexcel, MS Excel VOS viewer software packages used. ranked virology as Journal (N= 37205, 51.50%), 15052, 20.83%), General 10745, 14.87%) Archives 9238, 12.79%) respectively. Cross-country comparison reveals that USA currently taking leading role, followed UK, Germany & Japan China a newcomer with potential contributions make area. present offers important quantitative information Virology. In addition, researchers are increasingly investigating intellectual structures disciplines various bibliometric techniques.