A bibliometric analysis of malaria research in India during 1998–2009

oleh: B.M. Gupta & Adarsh Bala

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2011-09-01

Deskripsi

Objective: This study analyses the research output of India in malaria research in national and global context, asreflected in its publications output during 1998–2009.Methods: SCOPUS Citation database has been used to retrieve the publication data, which has been furtheranalysed on several parameters including its growth, rank and global publications share, citation impact, overallshare of international collaborative papers and share of major collaborative partners and patterns of researchcommunication in most productive journals. The publications output, impact and collaborative publication shareof India is also compared with South Africa, Brazil and China.Results: Indian scientists together have published 2786 papers in malaria research during 1998–2009 and registeredan average citation per paper of 3.49. The country ranks 4th among the top 20 most productive countries inmalaria research with its global publications share of 6.47% during 1998–2009.Conclusion: Quantum of Indian research output in malaria research is high but its citations per paper is lowcompared to select developing countries, which can be improved by investing more funds in international andnational collaborative research projects, as well as increasing the participation of researchers in such projects.