17 Gururaj Makarabbi ANA RAJ Suresh Ramanan Anubha Pathak Shanthya M S Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences JAPS 20232023/12/13 33 6 1258-1268 1018-7081 https://doi.org/10.36899/JAPS.2023.6.0667 <p>Zoonotic infectious diseases like Zika, Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory<br>Syndrome (MERS) and the very recent Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) can leap from one species to another and<br>within the same species by constantly mutating to defy therapeutics and vaccines. The SARS-CoV-2 is emerging to be<br>closely related to bat coronaviruses, highlighting the need of One Health approach to combat new disease threats that<br>affects both animals and human beings. One Health is a collaborative, multi-sectoral and trans-disciplinary approach -<br>working at the local, regional, national, and global levels, with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes<br>recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants and their shared environment. Therefore, One Health<br>can be considered as a global approach to maintain health of human beings, animals and ecosystem. The present study<br>plots the One Health publications available in Web of Science (WoS) database from 1997 to 2021. WoS provides access<br>to databases that supplies reference and citation data from research publications. Globally, a total of 4397 publications<br>were published. In Indian context, about 230 scientific literatures were published and only 94 publications were found<br>relevant to policy makers. Relevance to policy-makers was judged by the presence of policy implications in the research<br>publication. Further, data were analysed using bibliometrix R-package to evaluate research publications of authors, the<br>annual growth of research publications and citation analysis to understand the status of One Health research in India. The<br>annual growth rate of publications in India was 47.48 per cent with collaboration index 6.58, which is greater than global<br>collaboration index. Three-fields plot exhibited that in Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University<br>(GADVASU), Ludhiana, dedicated research on One Health is being carried out with 13 publications on One Health. The<br>collaboration network analysis found that Indian authors are highly collaborative with researchers from Australia, USA<br>and Germany. In addition to these formal collaborations, there is opportunity to strengthen informal collaboration<br>through digital platforms like Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. With judicious<br>use, they could be used to sprout fruitful collaborations. Thus, the trend of policy oriented One Health research in India<br>was analysed to illuminate on the possible researchable themes and future line of works.&nbsp;</p> One Health, multidisciplinary, zoonosis, collaboration, health policy, India Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2022-JAPS-233