Estudio cienciométrico de la producción científica publicada durante los años 2012 a 2022 de especies vegetales que presenten actividad antibacteriana con presencia de cumarinas y flavonoides

Abstract

This document shows the most significant results from the scientometric analysis of the scientific production reported during the years 2012 to 2022 of plant species that have antibacterial activity with the presence of coumarins and flavonoids. This study was carried out through the collection of articles published in scientific journals which are cataloged internationally within the impact factors Q1 -Q4 and nationally within categories B and C. The primary source for the collection of articles was journals published in the Scopus, PubMed, ACS publications, Science Direct, Taylor & Francis and ProQuest databases. The relevant data for this study were classified in a matrix in order to establish the corresponding scientometric indicators, such as: study methodology used, publications by family, studies by plant organ, chemical composition of the species, most studied bacterial strain, reported antibacterial activity, number of articles per year and country. When establishing the scientometric indicators, it was possible to establish that the studies collected have been carried out mainly in the countries of India, Indonesia and China during the years 2012-2022; in which most of the analyses were performed under the implementation of the extracts obtained from the chosen plant species being, for the most part, belonging to the Rutaceae family. It was also identified that the plant organ mostly used to carry out these studies are the leaves of these species, since in the 48 articles used for this study, 18 of them used this part of the plant to analyze it of interest. On the other hand, the bacterium in which the greatest number of studies were carried out to determine its sensitivity to the capacity of these species as antibacterial agents was Escherichia coli, representing 64% of the research carried out, where the methodology developed in most of the publications collected was diffusion in agar discs because they promote bacterial growth and greater diffusion of the samples.