Anemia Research in India: A bibliometric analysis of publications output during 1993–2013.

Authors

Jeyshankar -. Ramalingam -, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Alagappa UNiversity, Tamil Nadu, IndiaFollow
vellai chamy A, Alagappa UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

Winter 8-20-2014

Document Type

Article

Citation

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Abstract

This study is made an attempt to make the quantitative study of research output on anemia disease. Data of the present study is obtained from Scopus (http:// www.scopus.com) online multidisciplinary database for the period 1993–2013.The study reveals that 5085 papers were published during the period under study. The highest number of papers (739) is published in the year 2013 but it received 178 citations only. The minimum number (47) of papers is published in the year of 1996, but they have received 3245 citations. The study reveals that lowest number (0.56%) of citations received in the year 2013. The study also focuses on authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, most productive authors, subject pattern, major collaborative partners in India, most productive journals, active institutions and highly cited papers.