Citation rates of pediatric oncology publications from India.

摘要

I would like to commend Bala et al., for their effort on analyzing the research output from India from 1999 to 2008 in the field of neurosciences. The use of the Scopus database as a source of citations, and of h-index as a measure of productivity is preferable. The geographic and language bias of citation tracking in Web of Science makes it less suitable for analysis of research from India. More detail in the methods section as to how the individual articles were identified by country, by the field of neurosciences, and as to whether they were collaborative papers would have been desirable.