ISSN: 2642-1143
Global Asthma Research with Special Reference to India: A Scientometric Assessment of Publication Output during 2007-16
The paper examines 2094 Indian publications on asthma research, as covered in Scopus database during 2007-16, registering an annual average growth rate of 12.14%, global share of 2.72%, qualitative citation impact averaged to 10.857citations per paper and international collaborative publication share of 13.51%. The top 12 most productive countries individually contributed global share from 2.72% to31.27%, with largest global publication share coming from USA (31.27%), followed by U.K. (10.45%), Germany (5.60%), Canada (5.44%), etc. Together, the 12 most productive countries accounted for 83.80% share of global publication output during 2007-16.Medicine, among subjects, accounted for the highest publications share (61.32%), followed by pharmacology, toxicology & pharmaceutics (35.05%) biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (20.25%), immunology & microbiology (7.78%), agricultural & biological sciences (3.44%) and chemistry (2.88%) and during 2007-16. Among different type of asthma, allergic asthma contributed the highest number of publications, followed by bronchial asthma, atopic asthma, occupational asthma and seasonal asthma, etc. during 2007-16.The top 15most productive organizations and authors together contributed 33.48% and 19.96% respectively as their share of global publication output and 43.88% and 36.93% respectively as their share of global citation output during 2007-16. Among 2059 journal papers, the top 15 journals contributed 25.89% share to the Indian journal output during 2007-16. Only 29 publications registered citations from 100 to 868 and received 6792 citations, with citations per paper of 234.21.
Keywords:
Asthma research; India; Publications; Citations; International Collaborative Papers; Scientometrics; Bibliometrics
