ABSTRACT Marine fish parasites threaten both aquaculture sustainability and food safety and have been studied for more than 200 years with more than 10,000 papers. However, there has been no systematic summary of this area in recent years. A total of 11,368 research papers on marine fish parasites were collected from Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. On the basis of bibliometrics, the output of research achievements, contributions from countries/regions, institutions and authors, as well as their collaborative relationships, core journals, highly cited papers and references, were analysed. The evolutionary trends in research themes within this field were also explored. Emerging countries, institutions and scholars continue to appear in the study of marine fish parasites, and new achievements have been made in such fields as parasitology, genetics and marine ecology. The immune mechanisms, disease monitoring and vaccine development for parasitic diseases in commonly farmed fish species are key areas of focus for researchers in the coming period. This article provides a comprehensive portrait of marine fish parasite research, which is helpful for researchers to determine the research theme and choose partners and publications. The research limitation is that inconsistencies in data from different sources result in slight deviations in the analysis results.
Zhang et al. (Wed,) studied this question.