A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Aegle marmelos Global Publications during 2004-18

Abstract

The present study examined 962 global publications on Aegle marmelos, as covered in Scopus database during 2004-18, with a view to understand its growth rate, global share, citation impact, international collaborative pa- pers share, distribution of publications by broad subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors, preferred communication media and characteristics of high cited papers. Aegle marmelos global out- put registered 36.37% annual growth and averaged 16.0 citations per paper during the period. 43 countries participated in the global Aegle marmelos research output during 2004-18, of which the top 10 most productive coun- tries contributed 98.97% global publication share and more than 100.0% global citation share. India alone contributed 82.30% of the global publica- tion share, while all other 9 top countries contributed from 1.34% to 3.29% during 2004-18. Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics was the most followed subject with 47.71% global share, followed by medicine (29.0%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (22.35%), agricultural and biological sciences (21.41%), etc. during 2004-18. Top 15 productive orga- nizations and authors accounted for 19.65% and 12.79% global publica- tions share and 22.85% and 21.30% global citations share in global Aegle marmelos research output. Top 15 most productive journals accounted for 19.68% of global publication share in journals. Only 32 publications regis- tered high citations with 100-427 citations per paper and collectively aver- aging to 166.56 citations per paper. Suggest that the above analysis will help the policy-makers and scholars to explore the full potential of Aegle marmelos in preventing and treating diseases and also to identify future research areas in this field.

Keywords: Aegle marmelos; Medicinal plant; Global publications; Scien- tometrics; Bibliometrics