Article · Volume 48, Issue 2 · pp. 16–34
Pharmocology Research in India: A Scientometric Analysis of Publications Output, 2003–12
Mueen Ammed K.K1, Ritu Gupta1, B.M. Gupta1
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Abstract
The study analyses the performance of Indian pharmacological research during the last ten years (2003–12) using publications data covered in Scopus database, based on several parameters including global publication share and rank of 15 most productive countries, India’s publication growth rate and citations impact, its pattern of citations output,international collaboration profile, institutional profile, geographical distribution of output, contribution and impact of top institutions and authors, pattern of communications and characterstics of high cited papers.
Keywords: Pharmacology; Scientometrics; Research output; India
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