@article {456, title = {Aloe Vera (Medicinal Plant) Research: A Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications Output during 2007-16}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {10}, year = {2018}, month = {December 2017}, pages = {1-8}, type = {Invited Article}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

The paper examines 1988 global publications on Aloe Vera research, as covered in Scopus database during 2007-16. The Aloe Vera research registered 3.91\% growth and averaged its citation impact to 9.57 citations per paper. The top 12 most productive countries individually contributed global share 5.36\% to 52.17\%. India accounted for the largest global publication share (32.55\%), followed by USA (11.52\%), Iran (8.15\%), China (4.63\%) etc. Together, the top 12 countries accounted for 79.18\% global publications share and 84.94\% global citation share during 2007-16. Seven of top 12 countries scored relative citation index above the world average i.e. 1.04: U.K. (1.82), Thailand and USA (1.63 each), Spain (1.23), Pakistan and China (1.15 each) and Italy (1.12) during 2007-16. The country share of international collaborative publications across top 12 most productive countries varied from 5.36\% to 52.17\%, in Aloe Vera research during 2007-16. Medicine, among other subjects, accounted for the highest publications share (40.90\%), followed by pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (35.16\%), agricultural and biological sciences (23.09\%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (20.27\%), chemistry (7.90\%), immunology and microbiology (6.24\%) and engineering (5.38) during 2007-16. The top 20 most productive research organizations and the authors collectively contributed 11.47\% and 8.55\% respectively global publication share and 12.87\% and13.82\% respectively global citation share during 2007-16. The journals medium accounted for the largest 79.08\% global share with top 15 journals accounting for just 16.01\% of total output that was reported in journals during 2007-16. Only 18 papers in Aloe Vera research registered 100 plus citations between 104 to 242 citations per paper, and together these papers cumulated 2656 citations, averaging to 147.55 citations per paper. These 18 highly cited papers involved the participation of 66 authors and 41 organizations and were published in 15 journals.

}, keywords = {Aloe vera, Bibliometrics, Global research output, Medicinal plant, Scientometrics}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2018.1.1}, url = {http://fulltxt.org/article/356}, author = {BM Gupta and KK Mueen Ahmed and SM Dhawan and Ritu Gupta} } @article {712, title = {Curcuma longa (Medicinal Plant) Research: A Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications Output during 1997-2016}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {10}, year = {2018}, month = {August 2018}, pages = {998-1006}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {998}, abstract = {

The present study examined 5351 global publications in Curcuma longa as covered in international Scopus database during 1997-2016, with a view to understand their growth rate, global publication share, citation impact, international collaborative papers share, distribution of publications by broad subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors, preferred media of communication and bibliographic characteristics of high cited papers. The global publications registered an annual average growth rate of 13.40\% and its citation impact averaged to 29.04 citations per paper. Among the top 15 countries, the global share ranged from 1.91\% to 31.04\%, with India contributing the largest share of 31.04\%, followed by USA (13.96\%), China (11.55\%), etc. 92.66\% and 96.84\% of the cumulative global publication and citation share comes from top 15 countries during 1997-2016, showing increase in publication share from 89.25\% to 93.62\% from 1997-2006 to 2007-17. Five countries registered relative citation index above the world average of 1.05: USA (2.29), U.K. (2.08), Taiwan (1.81), Italy (1.23) and South Korea (1.10) during 1997-2016. Medicine, among seven broad subjects, contributed the largest publications share of 37.38\%, followed by pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (32.07\%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (31.68\%), agricultural and biological sciences (25.53\%), chemistry (12.78\%), etc. during 1997-16 Among various organizations and authors contributing to global Curcuma longa research, the 20 most productive global organizations and authors together contributed 13.89\% and 5.59\% global publication share and 20.75\% and 14.25\% global citation share respectively during 1997-2016. Amongst 5157 journal papers (in 2216 journals) in global Curcuma longa research, the top 20 most productive journals contributed 15.92\% share of total journal publication output during 1997-2016. Three hundred forty (340) publications were found to be high cited, as they registered citations from 100 to 3869 during 1997-2016 and they together received 81274 citations, which averaged to 239.04 citations per paper. It is suggested that developing countries need to increase their efforts in investment in R \& D to increase their output and also to perform better in terms of quality of research.

}, keywords = {Bibliometrics, Curcuma longa, Global research output, Medicinal plant, Scientometrics}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2018.5.170}, author = {K K Mueen Ahmed and B. M. Gupta and Ritu Gupta} } @article {742, title = {Glycyrrhiza glabra (Medicinal Plant) Research: A Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications Output during 1997-2016}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {10}, year = {2018}, month = {August 2018}, pages = {1067-1075}, type = {Invited Article}, chapter = {1067}, abstract = {

The present study examined 3428 global publications in Glycyrrhiza glabra, as covered in multidisciplinary Scopus bibliographical database during 1997-2016, with a view to understand their growth rate, global share, citation impact, international collaborative papers share, distribution of publications by broad subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors, preferred media of communication and bibliographic characteristics of high cited papers. The global publications registered an annual average growth rate of 10.87\% and its citation impact averaged to 19.09 citations per paper. Among the top 12 most productive countries, the global share ranged from 1.87\% to 19.81\%, with China contributing the largest share of 19.81\%, followed by India (13.71\%), USA (11.84\%), etc. More than 79.0\% of the cumulative global publication share comes from top 12 countries during 1997-2016, showing decrease from 100.0\% to 77.80\% from 1997-2006 to 2007-16. Seven countries registered relative citation index above the world average of 1.10: U.K. (2.39), USA (1.87), Canada (1.71), Italy (1.51), Japan (1.49), Turkey (1.24) and Taiwan (1.18) during 1997-2016. Medicine, among seven broad subjects, contributed the largest publications share of 44.41\%, followed by pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (35.04\%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (26.84\%), agricultural and biological sciences (16.89\%), chemistry (14.59\%), etc. during 1997-16. Among various organizations and authors contributing to global Glycyrrhiza glabra research, the 20 most productive global organizations and authors together contributed 15.08\% and 9.16\% global publication share respectively and 14.57\% and 16.62\% global citation share respectively during 1997-16. Amongst 3322 journal papers (in 1153 journals) in global Glycyrrhiza glabra research, the top 20 most productive journals contributed 16.80\% share of total journal publication output during 1997-2016. One hundred thirteen (113) publications were found to be high cited, as they registered citations from 100 to 852 during 1997-2016 and they together received 22234 citations, which averaged to 196.76 citations per paper.

}, keywords = {Bibliometrics, Global research output, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Medicinal plant, Scientometrics}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2018.6.180}, author = {B. M. Gupta and K K Mueen Ahmed and Ritu Gupta} }