Bibliometric Analysis on Identifying Plant, Crop Diseases Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Abstract

This paper is intended to explore the research done on identifying the diseased plants and crops using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) techniques during last 10 years using bibliometric methods. In this study, we used Scopus database to analyze on 'Plant disease' or 'Crop disease' using 'Machine Learning' or 'Deep Learning' or 'Neural Networks'. This paper focuses on the importance of ML and DL techniques in identifying plant or crop diseases. The database collected from the Scopus is analyzed using VOSviewer software of version 1.6.16. The study is limited to publications from conferences, journals with subject areas are limited to Computer Science, Engineering and languages limited to English and Chinese. Scopus search outputs 824 articles on Plant or Crop diseases with ML, DL and Neural Networks covering conference papers and journal articles. Statistics showed that more articles were published during the last five years and major contributions were from India. By analyzing database on Authors, Subject area, Keywords, Affiliation, Source type it is evident that there is plenty of research scope in this area. Network analysis on diverse parameters specifies that there is a good scope to do research in this topic using advanced deep learning techniques.