Visual Analysis of Apple Disease And Pest Research Based on Data Mining

To help researchers and decision makers understand the current research direction, hot spots and trends in the field of apple pests and diseases in China by analyzing the domestic literature on apple pests and diseases. Based on CNKI database, citation analysis was carried out on the number of publications, core authors, institutions and hot keywords in the field of apple pests and diseases from 1979 to 2022 using bibliometrics method. In CNKI database, 2054 literatures related to apple diseases and insect pests were retrieved, including 1466 valid literatures, including 1252 institutions, 248 journals and 1287 authors. Northwest A&F University and Hebei Agricultural University were the two institutions with the most publications, Keqiang Cao, Guiben Wu, Meiying Liu and other authors have published a lot of articles, and formed a number of cooperative teams, which have great influence. At present, domestic scholars pay more and more attention to apple diseases and insect pests. The number of institutions and researchers is large. The research institutions are mainly concentrated in universities and research institutes, and the cooperation and exchange between institutions need to be improved.