African Swine Fever (ASF) is a fatal febrile hemorrhagic viral swine infectious disease that causes enormous economic losses (Costard et al, 2013; Penrith et al, 2013) . It is a reportable disease to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and is managed as a first-class livestock infectious disease in South Korea by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in 2018 (Kim et al, 2021). Since there are many dense pig farm complexes in South Korea, the spread of ASF can even lead to

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... e collapse of the South Korean pig industry. ASF, which was an endemic disease in the African re-gion, is spreading around the world in modern times due to the development of transportation and logistics, and the factory like livestock industry based on the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) (Brown et al, 2018). Therefore, each country is devoting all its might to rapid diagnosis, epidemiology, and effective quarantine toward ASF. Understanding the trend and structure of researches that have been accumulated, is a major element in creating competitive advantages (Smith et al, 2005). Bibliometric analysis of literature on a certain theme is a useful tool for deepening understanding of overall research flow, evolution and core themes by identifying knowl-KJVS