Abstract
The present study examined 3428 global publications in Glycyrrhiza glabra, as covered in multidisciplinary Scopus bibliographical database during 1997-2016, with a view to understand their growth rate, global share, citation impact, international collaborative papers share, distribution of publications by broad subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors, preferred media of communication and bibliographic characteristics of high cited papers. The global publications registered an annual average growth rate of 10.87% and its citation impact averaged to 19.09 citations per paper. Among the top 12 most productive countries, the global share ranged from 1.87% to 19.81%, with China contributing the largest share of 19.81%, followed by India (13.71%), USA (11.84%), etc. More than 79.0% of the cumulative global publication share comes from top 12 countries during 1997-2016, showing decrease from 100.0% to 77.80% from 1997-2006 to 2007-16. Seven countries registered relative citation index above the world average of 1.10: U.K. (2.39), USA (1.87), Canada (1.71), Italy (1.51), Japan (1.49), Turkey (1.24) and Taiwan (1.18) during 1997-2016. Medicine, among seven broad subjects, contributed the largest publications share of 44.41%, followed by pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (35.04%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (26.84%), agricultural and biological sciences (16.89%), chemistry (14.59%), etc. during 1997-16. Among various organizations and authors contributing to global Glycyrrhiza glabra research, the 20 most productive global organizations and authors together contributed 15.08% and 9.16% global publication share respectively and 14.57% and 16.62% global citation share respectively during 1997-16. Amongst 3322 journal papers (in 1153 journals) in global Glycyrrhiza glabra research, the top 20 most productive journals contributed 16.80% share of total journal publication output during 1997-2016. One hundred thirteen (113) publications were found to be high cited, as they registered citations from 100 to 852 during 1997-2016 and they together received 22234 citations, which averaged to 196.76 citations per paper.
Highlights
Medicinal plants are of great importance to the health of individuals and communities
The main objectives of this study are to study the performance of Glycyrrhiza glabra research during 1997-16, based on publications output covered in Scopus database
Research publications data sourced from the Scopus database was analysed in this study to provide a quantitative and qualitative description of global Glycyrrhiza glabra research covering 20 years period, 1997-2016
Summary
Medicinal plants are of great importance to the health of individuals and communities. The most important of these bioactive constituents of plants are triterpenoid saponin, flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids and phenolic compounds. Many of these indigenous medicinal plants are used as a spices and food plant. Its scientific name is taken from the Greek for sweet root (glykys, meaning sweet, and rhiza, meaning root).[2,3] Glycyrrhiza glabra (known as Liquorice in English, Mulethi in Hindi and called Yashtimadhu in Ayurveda), is an important herb used in Indian medicines, home remedies, folk medicines and Ayurveda
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