Japanese Encephalitis: A Scientometric Analysis of Publications, 2003-12

Authors

  • Gupta Ritu
  • Gupat B M

Abstract

The paper  presents a analysis of 2496 papers on Japanese encephalitis as indexed in Scopus database during 2003-12, witnessing an annual average growth rate of 7.41% and  citation impact per paper of 5.26. The Japanese encephalitis publication output came from 79 countries, of which the top 10 (United States, India, China, Japan, etc) accounted for 88.90% global publication share during 2003-12. Japanese Encephalitis output came from 419 organizations and several authors, of which the top 20 contributed 28.61% and 21.67% share respectively during 2003-12. The largest publication share (65.06%) of output on Japanese Encephalitis came from medicine, followed by immunology & microbiology (40.71%), biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (18.55%), pharmacology, toxicology & pharmaceutics (9.33%), veterinary science (9.13%), neurosciences (6.69%), agricultural & biological sciences (5.05%) and environment science (1.40%) during 2003-12. Six countries, namely UK (2.01), USA (1.91), France (1.27), Thailand (1.19), Australia (1.15) and South Korea (1.04) have achieved relative citation rate above 1. 

Author Biographies

  • Gupta Ritu
    Ritu Gupta: has Masters in Library and Information science from Annamalai University, Chidambram and is presently working for her PhD at Sri Venkateshwara University, Meerut, India. She has numerous published research papers and seminar presentations to her credit. She is a school librarian and her areas of interest are information support to health care systems, library management, bibliometrics and scientometrics.
  • Gupat B M
    Gupta, B M: was Emeritus Scientist in the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi. Has Associateship in Documentation from INSDOC and PhD from Karnataka University.  Is a recipient of the Full bright Fellowship and is an elected the Fellow of the Society for Information Science. Has more than 100 research papers, national and international conference presentations, technical reports and books. Edited ‘Handbook of Libraries, Archives & Information Centers in India’ (16 Volumes) and ‘South Asia Bibliography and Documentation’ (8 Volumes). Has been Guest Editor of special issues of ‘Scientometrics’ and ‘DESIDOC Journal of LIT’.

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2018-01-19

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