SCIENTOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN INDIA DURING 2002-2021

Abstract

The current study focused to identify the Indian research contribution on Rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease, in which human immune system has attacks on their own healthy cells, characterized as compulsive and progressive with severe inflammatory attacks. The current study exclusively examines 2007 published articles only which have been indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database published and indexed in between 2002 to April 2021. Scientometric analysis use as the research tool and method to fulfil the objective of study. Furthermore, statistical correlations using RStudio and Python have been used where its required to understand, demonstrate and visualization. The analysis figured out a total of 2007 articles published during the period, of which 10993 authors appeared with rate of 3.43% authors per document. Chronological Analysis indicates the steady growth with 6.61 publications per year where 2018 accounted as the most productive year with 197 (9.82%) publication. Mean RGR (P) for first 10 years is 0.34 downfalls in last 10 years to 0.15. The rate of Doubling time for first decade of study accounted 2.00 increased to 7.50. As a result, there is an enormous growth of scholarly literature on the subject. It will be very useful for the Indian researchers and scientist for understanding the growth of publications output in the Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or Gatiya and identifying research collaborator.