Bibliometric Analysis of Research on the Megacopta cribraria

Megacopta cribraria is an important plant-feeding pest of soybeans, which seriously affects the yield and quality of soybeans. Using the method of bibliometrics, we sorted out the journal documents related to the Megacopta cribraria that were published at home and abroad from 1958 to 2023, with China National Knowledge Infrastructure（CNKI） and Web of Science as data sources, and analysed research status and development trends of the Megacopta cribraria. The results showed that, there are 146 journal documents at home and abroad that study the Megacopta cribraria, including 31 Chinese documents and 115 foreign documents, distributed in 134 publications. In 1958, Chinese scholars published the first research report on the Megacopta cribraria. Most of the publications at home and abroad were concentrated from 2013 to 2019. The United States and China are the top two countries in terms of the number of published papers. Researchers come from 8 countries and 139 research institutions. Domestic hot keywords include occurrence and control, occurrence patterns, soybean, environmental adaptability, etc., while foreign hot keywords include Plataspidae, identification, diversity, etc. At present, domestic and foreign research on the Megacopta cribraria includes the fields of entomology, insect physiology and biochemistry, biology, ecology and other fields.