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Moringa oleifera: A Bibliometric Analysis of India’s Publications During 1980-2019

BM Gupta1★, KK Mueen Ahmed2★ Corresponding author

  1. 1Formerly with CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi, INDIA.
  2. 2Phcog.Net, Bengaluru, Karnataka, INDIA, INDIA.

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BM Gupta

Formerly with CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi, INDIA.

bmgupta1@gmail.com

Received: 29-05-2020; Revised: 02-07-2020; Accepted: 22-08-2020.

Volume 12, Issue 3 · pp. 207–214 · PUBLISHED · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2020.12.62

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ABSTRACT

The study examines India’s research publications on Moringa oleifera plant during 1980-2019, as indexed in Scopus database, focusing on aspects, such as growth characteristics, research quality and impact, extent of international collaborative papers, distribution by broad subjects and significant keywords, leading organizations, authors and journals and features of its high-cited papers. The study found that CFTRI - Mysore (21 papers), University of Calcutta (18 papers) and Banasthali Vidyapeeth (15 papers) were the most productive organizations and National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow (79.27 and 4.12), Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (55.82 and 2.90) and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (40.7 and 2.12) were the most impactful organizations in terms of citation per paper and relative citation index. A. Mehta (10 papers), V. Sharma (10 papers) and D. Guha (9 papers) were the most productive authors and S.J.S. Flora (103.33 and 5.38), A. Urooj (36.50 and 1.90) and A.A. Mehta (20.5 and 1.59) were the most impactful authors in terms of citation per paper and relative citation index. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (21 papers), Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research and Journal of Ethnopharmacology (19 papers each) were the leading journals contributing to the field. Journal of Ethnopharmacology (75.0), Phytotherapy Research (52.75) and Indian Journal of Experimental Biology (33.33) were found to be most impactful journals in terms of citation per paper.

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    Gupta, B., & Ahmed, K. M. (). Moringa oleifera: A Bibliometric Analysis of India’s Publications During 1980-2019. Journal of Young Pharmacists, 12(3), 207–214. https://doi.org/10.5530/jyp.2020.12.62