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Review
. 2024 May 23;14(11):1546.
doi: 10.3390/ani14111546.

Viral Diagnosis in Psittacine Birds: A Scientometric and Systematic Review of 47 Years

Edma Santos Antonio  1 , Ricardo Evangelista Fraga  2 , Janisete Gomes Silva  1
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Review

Viral Diagnosis in Psittacine Birds: A Scientometric and Systematic Review of 47 Years

Edma Santos Antonio et al. Animals (Basel). .

Abstract

The first reports of viruses in psittacine birds date back to the early 1970s. Here, we elucidate the differences among these previous studies and the advances achieved. The objective of this study was to carry out a comprehensive review using both scientometric and systematic methods to analyze the evolution of published studies on viruses in psittacine birds up to 2022. The search descriptors "virus", "diagnosis", and "Psittaciformes" were used to find the articles of interest for this study. A total of 118 articles were manually selected, and the scientometric data were organized using the software VOSviewer® version 1.6.18. The present review revealed that: (i) on average, 2.5 articles/year on the diagnosis of viral infection in psittacine birds were published since 1975; (ii) the most productive research groups are concentrated in three countries: Australia, the United States, and Germany; (iii) the most important virus in psittacine birds is the Circovirus, which causes psittacine beak and feather disease; (iv) the diagnostic method of choice is polymerase chain reaction (PCR); and (v) the most studied psittacine birds were those in the Psittacidae family that were kept in captivity.

Keywords: Psittaciformes; infectious diseases; scientometry; virus.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Temporal distribution of research articles on viral diagnosis in psittacid birds published from 1975 to 2022 and indexed in the databases Dimensions®, PubMed®, Scopus®, and Web of Science®.
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Figure 2
Scientometric network of the (a) authors and (b) organizations that published the most articles on viral diagnosis in parrots between 1975 and 2022 and had the articles indexed in the Dimensions® database. The different colors of the clusters, formed by authors and institutions, indicate research conducted in partnership among its members. Images generated by VOSViewer® version 1.6.18 software.
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Figure 3
(a) Scientometric network of countries of origin of studies on the diagnosis of viruses in parrots between 1975 and 2022 that had their articles indexed in the Dimensions® database, image generated by VOSViewer® version 1.6.18. The different colors of the clusters indicate the countries most closely related in terms of conducting research on the topic addressed here. (b) Origin of parrots submitted to virus diagnosis according to the number of articles published between 1975 and 2022 and indexed in the Dimensions®, PubMed®, Scopus®, and Web of Science® databases.
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Figure 4
Biological material used for the diagnosis of viruses in parrots according to the number of articles published between 1975 and 2022 and indexed in the Dimensions®, PubMed®, Scopus®, and Web of Science® databases.
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Figure 5
Studies published using PCR as a diagnostic method for viruses in parrots between 1993 and 2022. The red square indicates the work published by Ypelaar et al. [59], in which they described the PCR most used to diagnose Circovirus in parrots.
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