productive countries were Switzerland (2.98), Croatia(2.07), Bulgaria (1.84) and Slovenia (1.46)[18]. In the present studyit was also found that Switzerland and Slovenia were the mostproductive countries in hirudotherapy literature although theyTable 2The 10 most cited manuscripts in the hirudotherapy literature.ArticleAuthorJournal NameTotal Citation Average Citationsper YearThe Genus Aeromonas: Taxonomy, Pathogenicity, and Infection Janda, JM and Abbott, SLClinical MicrobiologyReviews52758.56Central pattern generators and the control ofrhythmic movementsMarder, E and Bucher, DCurrent Biology35719.83Isolation and Characterization of Antistasin - An Inhibitorof Metastasis and CoagulationTuszynski, GP; Gasic, TB; Gasic, GJJournal of BiologicalChemistry1765.5Anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions associatedwith lepirudin in patients with heparin-inducedthrombocytopeniaGreinacher, A; Lubenow, N; Eichler, P Circulation1479.19Embryonic-Cell Lineages in The Nervous-Systemof The Glossiphoniid Leech Helobdella-TriserialisWeisblat, DA; Harper,G; Stent, GS; et al.Developmental Biology1423.64Embryonic Origins of Cells in The Leech Helobdella-Triserialis Weisblat, DA; Kim, SY; Stent, GSDevelopmental Biology1373.91Hirudin And Derivatives as Anticoagulant AgentsMarkwardt, FThrombosis and Hemostasis 1344.79Antistasin, A Leech-Derived Inhibitor ofFactor-Xa - Kinetic-Analysis of Enzyme-Inhibitionand Identification of The Reactive SiteDunwiddie, C; Thornberry,NA; Bull, HG; et al.Journal of BiologicalChemistry1264.2Pharmacology of Hirudin - 100 Years After The 1st Reportof The Anticoagulant Agent in Medicinal LeechesMarkwardt, FBiomedica Biochimica Acta 1243.65Aeromonas spp. clinical microbiology and diseaseParker, JL and Shaw, JGJournal of Infection10713.38Fig. 2.Number of hirudotherapy publications and citations by year.E. S ̧ were not it the list of top ten countries according the total numberof publications.One of the limitations of this study was that only WoS databasewas searched, which is one among the most reliable databases foracademic literature. Due to the fact that the majority of the publi-cations were written in English (93.28%), only English keywordswere used in the current study. The present search showed only alimited number of articles in a language other than English, e.g.,only one article including the keyword“Jalaukavacharana”wasfound[19], while the keyword“Jalauka”showed no records.5. ConclusionTo the best of our knowledge, our study is thefirst scientometricand bibliometric analysis in hirudotherapy literature. Network ana-lyses showed that multicenter studies were very seldom in thisfield.As revealed in this analysis leading countries with the highest numberof publications were developed countries and additional searchesshould be conducted from countries such as Russia, India and China.Source(s) of Fund An Interdisciplinary Critical Review of Leech Therapy; Evolution, Indications,Salivary Gland Secretions and Mode of Action– The Scientific Way 1Dr. SheetalAsutkar. M.D, Ph.D (sch), Professor, Dept. of Shalyatantra, Shri Ayurveda College, Hanuman Nagar, Nagpur(M.S) 2Dr.Subhashchandra Varshney M.d,PhD, Ex Professor and Head, Deaprtment of Shalyatantra,IMS BHU,Varanasi,(U.P) Corresponding Author: Dr. SheetalAsutkar. Email id- sheetal.gujjanwar@rediffmail.com Abstract: Leech therapy can be correlated to Jaloukavacharana in Ayurveda, which is the best tool of Raktamokshana curing many diseases like abscess, cysts, tumors,