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Bibliometric Assessment of the Global Scientific Production on Feline

Leukemia Virus (FeLV): Implications for Further Research in Latin America

Bonilla-Aldana, D. Katterine ; Trejo, Adrián Esteban ; Pérez-Vargas, Soffia ; Rivera-
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Casa, Estefany ; Ramírez, Sebastian ; Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J.
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1 Semillero de Zoonosis (SIZOO), Grupo de Investigación BIOECOS, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de
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Introduction: Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) infection is a prevalent transmittable condition for domestic
cats. Recently, appears that FeLV is higher in areas of lower power parity per capita. Then, would be
expectable also that the research on it would be lacking globally and especially in Latin America.
Objective: To assess the global scientific production on FeLV. Methods: Bibliometric study at 6 databases:
Web of Sciences (WoS)®, Scopus®, Medline/PubMed, SciELO, LILACS and Google Scholar®, assessing
the global scientific production on FeLV, measuring the number of articles per countries, number of original
articles, citations and H index, among other indicators. Results: Those most productive countries in WoS
(N=1,449): USA(586[40.4%]), Germany(151[10.4%]), United Kingdom(117[8.1%]), Japan(111[7.7%]) and
Brazil(83[5.7%]). At Scopus (N=2,933): USA(1550[52.8%]), United Kingdom(289[9.9%]) and Germany
(166[5.7%]).At PubMed (N=2,362): USA(563[23.8%]),Japan(116[4.9%]) and Germany(89[3.8%]). At
SciELO there were 22(81.2% Brazil collection, 9.1% Colombia, 4.5% Argentina and 4.5% Peru). At LILACS
27 (81.5% Brazil, Colombia 11.1% and 3.7% USA). Google Scholar: 60,600 (Brazil 2.6%, USA 2.1% and
Canada 1.5%). Top productive countries H-index (WoS): USA (65, 15,981 citations), Germany (32, 2,711
citations), and United Kingdom (30, 2,635 citations).

Conclusions: As in other bibliometric studies, scientific production by USA and their groups is
predominant. In areas such as Latin America, there is a clear lack of investigation on FeLV and probably
also on Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), then, this should be increased, as besides Brazil the number
of articles from other countries is still very limited. Studies revealed that rates of FeLV infection would be
high as more than 20%, however, there is a lack of studies from Africa and Latin America. This member of
the family Retroviridae, should be more investigated in these regions, given their clinical significance and
even fatal outcomes, associated with leukemias, lymphomas, and non-regenerative anemias.

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