A Bibliometric Profile on Malaria Research

摘要

Purpose: This paper is to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of literature on "Malaria " research, a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by a kind of parasitic protozoa called Plasmodium as per Indian Citation Index (ICI) database. During the period 2010-2015, a total of 576 number of literature were published by the malaria researchers in India. Methodology: Indian Citation Index (ICI) database has been used for data collection for the period 2010-2015. Findings: The highest number of literature i.e., 112 was published in the year 2014. Viroj Wiwanitkit, is the most prolific author who contributed 8 articles during this period. The most preferred journals by the scientists were: Journal of Vector Borne Diseases with 91 articles, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health (30 articles), Indian Journal of Medical Research (26 articles). As far as the form of documents concerned research articles rank first with 361 (62.7%) within 576. Value: It is hoped that this research paper will be help the future researchers on malaria research, to draw their research strategies based on the stated scenario.