@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 {599, title = {Yoga Research a Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications Output during 2007-16}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {10}, year = {2018}, month = {March 2018}, pages = {394-402}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {394}, abstract = {

The paper examines 3966 global publications on yoga research, as covered in Scopus database during 2007-16. The global output on yoga research output registered 7.79\% growth, and citation impact averaging to 10.44 citations per paper. The top 10 most productive countries in yoga research individually contributed global share from 1.31\% to 38.35\%, with largest global publication share coming from USA (38.35\%), followed by India (19.29\%), U.K. (6.61\%), Canada (5.09\%), etc. Together, the 10 most productive countries accounted for 83.74\% and 96.67\% global publication and global citation share during 2007-16. Five of top 10 countries scored relative citation index above the world average i.e. more than 1: Canada (1.81), USA (1.37), Germany (1.34), U.K. (1.31) and Italy (1.12) during 2007-16. The international collaborative publications share of top 10 most productive countries in yoga research varied from 12.68\% to 42.59\% during 2007-16. Medicine, among subjects, contributed the largest publication share (78.67\%), followed by 9 other subjects with global share between 5.09\% and 9.56\%. The top 25 most productive organizations and authors together contributed 21.63\% and 16.84\% respectively as their global publication share and 35.37\% and 25.10\% respectively as their global citation share during 2007-16. Among the total journal output of 3719 papers, the top 15 journals contributed 21.22\% share to the global journal output during 2007-16. Of the global yoga research output, the top 44 publications registered high citations from 101 to 1092 and they together cumulated 8304 citations, averaging to 188.72 citations per paper. These 44 highly cited papers were published in 35 journals, 5 papers were published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online), 2 papers each in Annals of Internal Medicine, Integrative Cancer Therapies, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Pain and 1 paper each in other journals.

}, keywords = {Bibliometrics, Global publications, Medical diseases, Scientometrics, Yoga research}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2018.3.65}, url = {http://fulltxt.org/article/497}, author = {BM Gupta and KK Mueen Ahmed and SM Dhawan and Ritu Gupta} }