Top Productive Countries Research Articles

A Bibliometric Survey of Metadiscourse (1979-2023): Looking behind to Look Ahead

This paper aims to present a systematic overview of metadiscourse discourse studies published in different sources, examine the structure of scientific collaboration, identify hot research areas, and trace the research trends. To meet this objective, the bibliometric records of metadiscourse-related publications are first retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection. Then, the bibliometric analysis and social network analysis are employed to analyze the retrieved bibliometric databased with bibliometrix and VOSviewer. Our bibliometric analysis shows that the overall trend of metadiscourse-related publications has been on the increase, with a relatively slow growth before 2011. It also identifies the most productive journal, the top prolific author, the top productive institution and country. On the other hand, the social network analysis yields collaboration networks, and keyword-based co-occurrence networks. The collaboration networks show the most fruitful co-author collaboration network, and the most productive co-institution network, and the most productive co-country network. The keyword-based co-occurrence network sketches major research areas and detects their changing trajectory. Hence, the findings are expected to help orient novice researchers to metadiscourse studies, and offer the insights for future researcher to address the emerging issues of metadiscourse.

Mapping research trends in private sector corruption: A Bibliometrics Analysis

Objective - This paper systematically analyzes publications in the field of private-sector corruption. Methodology/Technique—We used bibliometric indicators and the VOSviewer software to identify metrics like annual publication trends, top productive countries, top subject area for this field, collaboration network, and co-citation analysis trend. Through a structured keyword search from the Scopus database from 1988 to 2024, 392 documents were identified. Findings - Results show that the number of publications was insignificant for the first 15 years of study and only rose significantly from 2003 onwards. The findings also show that publications in this field are produced in 70 countries, with the majority published in Western countries. Novelty - This article extensively reviews the current state of private sector corruption literature. It is beneficial to assist emerging researchers in recognizing and comprehending the most recent developments in this field by examining various countries, authors, and fields of study. Type of Paper: Empirical JEL Classification: M14, K22 Keywords: Corporate corruption, Private sector, Bibliometrics, Scopus database Reference to this paper should be referred to as follows: Mahmud, N.M; Ghuslan, M.I; Alwi, F; Adam, A; Rosli, S.A. (2024). Mapping research trends in private sector corruption: A Bibliometrics Analysis, Acc. Fin. Review, 9(2), 54 – 64. https://doi.org/10.35609/afr.2024.9.2(1)

Research visualization on cloud computing services in the field of information science and library science

PurposeThis bibliometric study is steered to compute the impact of literature published on cloud computing within the fields of information science and library science. The research has been conducted on concentrating the term “Cloud Computing” to search the literature published in both fields, i.e. information science and library science from the time span 2007 to August 2023. This study aims to investigate the top productive country, organizations and highly cited publications.Design/methodology/approachThe period of the exploration was from 2007 to August 2023 for bibliometric analysis and data was collected from the ISI Web of Science. Total 401 documents were retrieved and analyzed to highlight the year-wise distribution of documents type, year-wise most cited articles, prominent journals of the subjects, productivity of organizations, impact of countries and cooccurrences of keywords. The results are grounded on the basis of documents types (articles, early access articles, proceeding papers, book review, editorial material, news items and reviews).FindingsThe findings reveal that the most productive year of publication on cloud computing services was 2013. The top productive source is “International Journal of Information Management.” The articles entitled “Assessing the determinants of cloud computing adoption: An analysis of the manufacturing and services sectors” found as the most cited article and the significant increase in citations is also noteworthy. The most productive organizations on the topic include “Islamic Azad University of Iran,” “University Cologne of Germany” and “University Nova Lisboa of Portugal.” The results confirmed that the USA dominates in the production of research on “Cloud Computing Services” and the most repeated keyword in the literature is cloud computing. The research articles are the most cited sources of research.Originality/valueThis bibliometric research is an original piece of work that has been conducted to measure the research production in the field of information science and library science during 2007−2023. This piece of work is valuable for those who want to study the literature on cloud computing in the area of information science and library science.

Mapping the literature of social network ties in business and management field: A bibliometric study

In recent years, academics have focused increasingly on social network connections across different organisations. Social networking for businesses is a topic that crosses many disciplines, including social sciences, computer science, engineering, management, education, sociology, and psychology, so it's no surprise that definitions, methods, and approaches to social networks are constantly debated. Based on a data set of 3466 publications from the Scopus database, the goal of this study is to map the previous literature on social network ties of organisations to the business and management area. The data set was taken from the Scopus database to investigate the main authors, the number of publications, the most influential journals, the most used keywords and the top productive institutions and countries. The goal of this study is to map the previous literature on the social network ties of organisations to the business and management area. The most influential publications, authors, journals, and keywords are thus identified using four methods of bibliographic analysis, as follows: bibliographic coupling, analysis of co-occurrence of authors' keywords, and analysis of co-authorship (a) countries and (b) authors. According to the study’s findings, the USA is the most prolific country, having over 900 publications in the past five years, followed by China and the UK. The publication trend has increased over the last 5 years in the business and management field and will keep increasing because of the growing interest of researchers and practitioners in the given field. Knowledge-based systems are found to be the top productive journal and Hong Kong Polytechnic University is the most influential institution with the highest number of publications.

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER (FAME) TRIBOLOGY (2010 TO 2019)

In the present study, a bibliometric analysis has been carried out with relation to the FAME research topic on its production, rheological and tribological studies for the last ten years (2010-2019). The scientific collaborations throughout this timespan were investigated according to different parameters in Web of Science (WoS). Based on the keyword search string, the top productive journals for the FAME research and their co-citation relationships were revealed in this study. Energy Fuels, Fuel and Wear are indicated to be the top three most influential journals of this research topic. Apart from that, the top productive countries, organizations, authors, funding agencies and their respective visualization networks were also investigated. A keyword co-occurrence analysis was conducted to reveal thematic areas in FAME research. A strong research interest in FAME oxidation stability and its tribological behaviour was one of the main findings of this analysis. FAME as biolubricant is recommended due to their ability to reduce wear and friction, also by adding a proper amount of additives, the poor oxidative stability characteristic of FAME could be resolved. These findings are expected to encourage more FAME-related research and communications in this field.

Forty-Seven Years of Environmental Management Accounting Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Environmental sustainability is considered as responsible engagement with the environment in order to prevent the depletion or degradation of natural resources and ensure long-term environmental quality. Environmental management accounting (EMA) is a tool that aids in enhancing environmental performance and environmental information management. EMA is a growing topic, but there hasn't been a complete analysis to pull everything together and make sense of it all. By adopting bibliometric review, through performance analysis, and science mapping, our research fills in this research gap. Biblioshiny in R and VOS viewer is used for conducting data analysis. Through an extensive study of 1,075 documents, this study discloses the publication and citation trend, top influential authors, journals, publications, and top productive institutions and countries. The study also identifies topic trends through temporal analysis. Different thematic clusters are identified through bibliographic coupling and Co-occurrence of the author’s keywords (i.e. Social and environmental accounting, Environmental management accounting, Environmental performance, Carbon accounting, Sustainability, and sustainable development, Eco-system services, Environmental disclosure, and corporate social responsibility). Centrality measures are presented to show the impact of the author and keywords. The study concludes with suggestions for future study, and ways forward focusing on Circular economy, green accounting, material flow cost accounting, carbon accounting, sustainability, etc. The study is wholly dependent on the Scopus database, further studies can explore other databases like Web of science, google scholar, and others.

Towards concise reporting through integrated reporting: a bibliometric review

PurposeThis paper aims to systematically analyse the publications in the field of integrated reporting (IR) and to present an overview of the current publication trends in IR based on the data obtained from the Scopus database.Design/methodology/approachSelected bibliometric indicators and bibliometrix R-packages are used in examining metrics like annual publication trends, authors with the most produced work, papers that are often cited, top productive countries, top productive affiliations, frequently mentioned journals, frequently mentioned keywords, analysis of co-citation, analysis of collaboration and analysis of co-word.FindingsThe findings from the bibliometric review indicated that the trend of IR literature had increased from 2017 to 2020, specifically from 2017 to 2019. The findings also indicated that several publications on IR entailed several authors’ collaboration and were published in various languages. Moreover, around 148 institution-affiliated researchers from 40 institutions in 20 countries contributed to the IR publication.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper offers a comprehensive overview of the current development in IR. It is useful to help emerging scholars identify and understand current trends in IR based on different countries, authors and languages.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature on IR by highlighting the trends of IR publications from the Scopus database using bibliometric analysis.

What have we Learned from Firm Efficiency Research for the Past 35 Years? A Bibliometric Analysis

The increasing publication and citation performances of Firm Efficiency research for the past 35 years have attracted scholars to further embark on this area. Hence, the main objective of this study is to explore what scholars have learned from Firm Efficiency research over the past 35 years. This study uses bibliometric analysis to analyze top productive countries, top 10 journals, top 10 prominent authors, top 20 cited articles, and emerging themes. Selected findings indicated that the United States, China and Taiwan are the top three most productive countries in Firm Efficiency research. In addition, five emerging themes were highlighted in Firm Efficiency research for the past 35 years. The five themes were: 1) Stochastic Frontier Analysis in measuring firm productivity and size, 2) Bootstrapping DEA and SFA in measuring firm efficiency, 3) Corporate Governance and Technical Efficiency, 4) DEA as benchmarking in Firm Efficiency, and 5) Capital Structure and Ownership Structure. This study provides three contributions – 1) encourage scholars to observe the trends in publication and citation performances. 2) Allow scholars and authors to collaborate with an expert in Firm Efficiency research in the future, and 3) inspire the authors to look at the potential research gap and future directions in Firm Efficiency research.

Global research performance on social media security: a bibliometric visualization analysis

PurposeThis study concentrates on assessing the research productivity in the domain of social media security in the past decades. The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric review on social media using various bibliometric indicators.Design/methodology/approachA total of 8,121 scientific publications were retrieved from Scopus database from period 1998 to 2021 using associated keyword search. This study also used VOSviewer© tool to evaluate the network visualisation.FindingsThe result of this study revealed that there is a steady growth of annual publications except for the years 2015 and 2016. A total of 8,121 scientific publications and 80,454 total citations were found with 11.2 average citations per publication. The USA, China and India were top productive countries in terms of publishing research in the field; Chinese Academy of Sciences secured top position with 126 publications in highly productive organisation in the domain. The lecture notes in computer science from Springer Nature received a highly produced title with 553 publications and 4,453 total citations. For co-occurrence of author’s keywords, network visualisation analysis revealed that “Social Media”, “Social Network”, “Security”, “Privacy” and “Trust” found maximum occurrence in the domain of social media security.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides comprehensive research status of social media security by performing a bibliometric analysis. The findings of this study will help relevant researchers to understand the research trend, pursue scientific collaborators and enhance research topic preferences.Originality/valueThe rareness of this study, detailed bibliometric analysis on the domain of social media security, is proven using numerous bibliometric indicators and application of VOSviewer in the domain.

Scientometric analysis of mammalian microbiome research

Over the past few decades, microbiota research has been gaining the attention of the researchers working on the concepts of health–enhancement and overall–wellbeing. The mammalian microbiome has been progressively acknowledged as a developing research area resulting in an increased number of publications. This study intends to use scientometric and bibliometric analysis to evaluate the research development and evolution of publication patterns in the field of mammalian microbiome between 2007 and 2020. 512 published articles were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection and were analyzed. We assessed the quantity and quality of research output through statistical methods of bibliometric indicators, comprising a number of publications, citations, productive authors, journals and countries, using a bibliometric analysis. Scientometric analysis was performed using main path analysis, bibliometric coupling, co-word co-occurrence and co-author analysis, systematically characterizing and visualizing the trend and delivering a pivotal review of the mammalian microbiome research status quo. The results identified an increase in the number of publications over time showing the rapid research growth, with top productive countries recording the highest number of research outcomes with influential research. The bibliographic coupling revealed the most shared papers that form landmark papers and the co-author analysis indicated the most influential authors in mammalian microbiome research. The evolutionary path of the mammalian microbiome research was traced using the main path analysis identifying the milestone papers. The frequently occurred words were enumerated from co-word, co-occurrence networks. The information from this study could be a transcript for a comprehensive understanding of current mammalian microbiome research and can also direct the future and emerging trends in this research realm.

Scientific Mapping of Industry 4.0 Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

<p class="0abstract">The fourth industrial revolution is progressing very rapidly. This research aims to investigate the research patterns and trends of industry 4.0 research with a focus on manufacturing. This bibliometric analysis is performed on data of the past five years (2016 to 2020) retrieved from the Scopus database. This research is conducted on 1426 articles in which the top productive countries, authors, institutions, and most cited articles were investigated. Findings demonstrated that Italy, the United States, and China are the most active countries in terms of research publications. South China University of Technology (China) has been identified as the most productive institution. Wan, J., Li, D., Rauch, E. were found to be the most productive authors. Industry 4.0 is primarily focused on the fields of engineering and computer science and sustainability is the most prolific journal. Co-occurrence analysis of keywords, co-authorship analysis of authors and countries were carried out along with bibliographic coupling of documents using VoS viewer which is the most common information visualisation software. This article summarises the growth of Industry 4.0 in the past five years and gives a short overview of the related works and applications of Industry 4.0.</p>

A retrospective overview of Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy from2007 to 2021 using abibliometric analysis

Purpose This paper aims to examine the pattern of publications, using a bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy (JEC) for the period between 2007 and 2021. Design/methodology/approach The study uses relevant bibliometric metrics and procedures. The analysis covers mainly the number of articles published in JEC, most influential years in terms of the number of publications and citations, top productive countries, most prolific authors, most influential institutions, funding institutions, co-authorship trends, keywords co-occurrence, and vital themes of JEC articles between 2007 and 2021. Findings The journal’s influential impact in terms of citations has increased over time, with 83.62% of the published works receiving at least one citation. Léo-Paul Dana has been recognised as the most prolific author by virtue of his contribution of articles in JEC, and the maximum contribution to JEC comes from the USA, followed by Canada and the UK. University of Canterbury, New Zealand and La Trobe University, Australia were the leading contributing institutions. The study identified “indigenous entrepreneurs”, “gender”, “social entrepreneurship”, “education” and “innovation” as contemporary keywords in the study of enterprising communities. These issues present a clear opportunity for research-related topics for the JEC. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first comprehensive piece in the journal’s history that provides a general overview of the journal's major trends and researchers.

A Global Overview of COVID-19 Research in the Pediatric Field: Bibliometric Review.

BackgroundSince the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a great number of papers have been published in the pediatric field.ObjectiveWe aimed to assess research around the globe on COVID-19 in the pediatric field by bibliometric analysis, identifying publication trends and topic dissemination and showing the relevance of publishing authors, institutions, and countries.MethodsThe Scopus database was comprehensively searched for all indexed documents published between January 1, 2020, and June 11, 2020, dealing with COVID-19 in the pediatric population (0-18 years). A machine learning bibliometric methodology was applied to evaluate the total number of papers and citations, journal and publication types, the top productive institutions and countries and their scientific collaboration, and core keywords.ResultsA total of 2301 papers were retrieved, with an average of 4.8 citations per article. Of this, 1078 (46.9%) were research articles, 436 (18.9%) were reviews, 363 (15.8%) were letters, 186 (8.1%) were editorials, 7 (0.3%) were conference papers, and 231 (10%) were categorized as others. The studies were published in 969 different journals, headed by The Lancet. The retrieved papers were published by a total of 12,657 authors from 114 countries. The most productive countries were the United States, China, and Italy. The four main clusters of keywords were pathogenesis and clinical characteristics (keyword occurrences: n=2240), public health issues (n=352), mental health (n=82), and therapeutic aspects (n=70).ConclusionsIn the pediatric field, a large number of articles were published within a limited period on COVID-19, testifying to the rush to spread new findings on the topic in a timely manner. The leading authors, countries, and institutions evidently belonged to the most impacted geographical areas. A focus on the pediatric population was often included in general articles, and pediatric research about COVID-19 mainly focused on the clinical features, public health issues, and psychological impact of the disease.

Research Productivity and Network Visualization on Digital Evidence: A Bibliometric Study

ABSTRACT The present study focuses on evaluating the research productivity in the domain of digital evidence using various bibliometric indicators. Total 4458 scientific publications were retrieved from Scopus database from period 1889 to 2020 applying related keyword search. The results were presented in tabular and graphical form. Study also used VOSviewer© tool to evaluate the network visualization and discovered the collaboration and relationship with authors, coauthors, countries, institutions, co-occurrence of keywords, and co-citation of cited references in the subject domain digital evidence. The result revealed that growing trends of total publications in last 10 years of research. Of total 4458 scientific publications, 40,936 total citations were found with 9.18 average citation per publication. UK and USA were top-productive country in terms of publishing research in the field, and Czech Republic and Switzerland have produced more prolific authors. University van Pretoria, Masaryk University and University of South Australia were reported top three productive organizations in the realm of digital evidence. Study also observed collaboration and cooperation between authors, country, and organizations in the visualization analysis. The results of co-occurrence of keywords were reported that digital evidence, digital forensics, computer forensics, and digital investigation were found frequently used keywords and have maximum link strength.

Global trends of COVID-19 research in cancer: A scientometric study.

e13549 Background: The scientific literature experienced an unprecedented growth in archived pre-prints and peer-reviewed COVID-19 related publications with regional variations making the task of synthesizing the information burdensome. This study aims to characterize global patterns and domains of COVID-19 research in cancer. Methods: We used the NIH COVID-19 portfolio and Web of Science (WOS) curated databases to extract abstracts using standard search terms for COVID-19 and cancer between Nov 1 2019 and Dec 31 2020. A total of 21,325 publications matched the study search criteria (NIH: 18,029 records; WOS: 3512 records; 204 records overlapped). We performed a descriptive analysis to calculate country citations and intercountry collaboration networks. The Jaccard similarity index was utilized to identify the most frequently co-occurring terms. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) was used for classifying publications into corresponding research topics. Results: The most productive period was May 2020 with 3,181 published articles, mean citation rate per paper was highest in Jan 2020 (1,620.5) followed by Feb 2020 (236.7), highest mean use rate in the last 12 months was March 2020. Top productive countries are classified as High and Upper Middle-income countries, 17% of research contributed by USA, 12% by China PR, and 11.4% by Italy. Linkage between top 30 productive countries show USA, Italy, and England with the highest inter-country co-ordination. Analysis of keywords co-occurring at least 5 times resulted in 12 major clusters including: 1) cancer treatment and mortality; 2) inflammation and immunology; 3) chronic diseases and co-morbidities; and 4) mental health and social psychology. Ranked topics with the highest volume of publications include 1) effect of COVID-19 on treatment outcomes; 2) individual risk factors of COVID-19 severity and mortality, and 3) novel treatment options relevant to cancer patients [Table]. Growth of articles peaked between Mar and Apr 2020 with a steady decline across all topics in Sept 2020. Conclusions: Global cancer –related research productivity peaked following the declaration of the pandemic and first wave in Mar- Apr 2020. Systematic synthesis of a large volume of COVID-19 literature revealed the global research landscape highlighting focus on the study of outcomes in cancer patients.[Table: see text]

Global Machine-learning Research: a scientometric assessment of global literature during 2009–18

The article provides a quantitative and qualitative analyses of global machine-learning research output (48,455 publications), using select bibliometric indicators, using Web of Science database for 2009–18 period. The various indicators used in this study are: average annual growth, citations per paper, international collaborative papers, relative citation index, activity index, top-productive countries, organizations, authors, journals, and highly cited papers. Machine learning (within the domain of artificial intelligence) as a subject of study has fast-emerged as a subject of intensive research. It registered average annual growth rate of 27.59% and averaged citation impact of 10.78 per paper. Among 138 participating countries, the USA and China were in top 10 most productive countries on the subject. Among top 10 countries, France and Canada were the leading countries in terms of average citation per paper and relative index. France and Australia were leading in terms of for their national-level share to international collaborative publications (64.95% and 63.95%, respectively). In terms of type of machine learning, supervised learning registered the largest publications’ share, followed by deep learning, semi-supervised learning and reinforced learning (0.89% share, 556 papers). Centre National De La Recherche Scientique, France (769 papers), Harvard University, USA (751 papers) and University of London, UK (729 papers) were the three most productive global research organizations. In contrast, University of Toronto, Canada, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and University of Oxford, UK were the three leading organizations in terms of citation per paper and relative citation index. Y. Zhang (246 papers), Y. Liu (204 papers) and J. Wang (203 papers) were leading in publication productivity in contrast to J. Li (12.52 and 1.03). L. Zhang (12.42 and 1.02) and J. Zhang (11.23 and 0.92) scored high in citation per paper and relative citation index on the subject. Neurocomputing (1310 papers), PLOS One (917 papers) and Expert Systems with Applications (861 papers) were the leading journals on this subject.

A Topic-Based Bibliometric Analysis of Two Decades of Research on the Application of Technology in Classroom Dialogue

With growing interest in technology and its application within education, an increasing volume of research literature concerning the utilisation of technology in classroom dialogue has become available. To provide a comprehensive overview of the research area, this paper reports the results of topic-based bibliometric analysis of relevant articles published from 1999 to 2018. Trends in articles and citations, productive institutions, countries/regions and journals are identified. Vital research interests in the research area and how have they evolved over time have been specified and visualised. Interest in the application of technology in classroom dialogue has grown significantly during the past 20 years and will continue to expand. The USA is the top productive country in the field, and countries/regions and institutions that display a large number of international collaborations are likely to be influential. Topic analysis highlights the existing prominence of research in the areas of Dialogue, Settings, Collaboration and Information communications technology, as well as increasing interest in Learning achievement and Teacher professional development. Findings obtained in this study could potentially help promote the use of technology in classroom dialogue, and provide suggestions for scholars and project investigators in (re)allocating research resources.

Theme Mapping and Bibliometrics Analysis of One Decade of Big Data Research in the Scopus Database

Recently, the popularity of big data as a research field has shown continuous and wide-scale growth. This study aims to capture the scientific structure and topic evolution of big data research using bibliometrics and text mining-based analysis methods. Bibliographic data of journal articles regarding big data published between 2009 to 2018 were collected from the Scopus database and analyzed. The results show a significant growth of publications since 2014. Furthermore, the findings of this study highlight the core journals, most cited articles, top productive authors, countries, and institutions. Secondly, a unique approach to identifying and analyzing major research themes in big data publications was proposed. Keywords were clustered, and each cluster was labeled as a theme. Moreover, the papers were divided into four sub-periods to observe the thematic evolution. The theme mapping reveals that research on big data is dominated by big data analytics, which covers methods, tools, supporting infrastructure, and applications. Other critical aspects of big data research are security and privacy. Social networks and the Internet of things are significant sources of big data, and the resources and services offered by cloud computing strongly support the management and processing of big data.

The Development of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Publications: A Holistic Evolution of Global Literature with Bibliometric Analysis.

Despite the fact that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is one of the reasons for morbidity and mortality in the newborn intensive care units, the literature indicates no bibliometric studies that made a holistic evaluation of the publications on this issue. This study aims to make a holistic evaluation of NEC publications to reveal the latest developments and trend topics. Bibliometric analyses were performed by retrieving all the publications in Web of Science (WoS: Web of Science Core Collection database maintained by Clarivate Analytics) database between 1980 and 2018 using the "necrotizing enterocolitis" keyword. The correlations between economic productivity, humanity index, and performances of the countries on the topic of NEC were investigated with Spearman's correlation coefficient. A review of the related literature indicated 2,968 publications on NEC between 1980 and 2018. Of these publications, 1,690 (56.9%) were indexed in the article document category in WoS. There was an important increasing trend in the number of publications after 2006. Results of the present study showed that the Journal of Pediatric Surgery and Journal of Pediatrics were the top effective journal that contributed to the literature in terms of publication productivity. The top productive country that produced most publications about NEC was the United States (863, 51.1%). Research on NEC is conducted in a limited number of countries. There seem to be more research opportunities in the developed countries because survival rates of premature babies having a disease like NEC are lower in the undeveloped countries, and survival rates are higher in developed countries due to appropriate intensive care conditions. Therefore, undeveloped countries should be supported in terms of NEC and provided with funds.

Rhodiola rosea: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Global Publications Output during 2003-18

A quantitative and qualitative assessment of global research output (2016) on the “Rhodiola rosea” plant based on select bibliometric indicators, using Scopus database covering period 1993-2018, is presented here. Analyzed data on a series of bibliometric measures, like average annual growth, citations per paper, international collaborative papers, relative citation index, activity index, top productive countries, organizations, authors, journals and highly cited papers. The global publications registered an annual average growth rate of 12.97% and its citation impact averaged to 17.59 citations per paper. China and USA together account for more than 36% share of global output on Rhodiola rosea, whereas other 8 top ranking countries accounted each for global share between 4.06% and 7.60% during 2003-18. 83.04% global publication share and 89.95% global citation share has been contributed by top 10 countries during 2003-18. Sweden (2.78), Canada (1.17) and USA (1.11) registered the highest relative citation index among top 10 countries during 2003-81. Swedish Herbal Institute, Askloster, Sweden (21 papers), Medical University of Warsaw, Poland (14 papers), Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary were the three the most productive organizations and Z. Gyorgy and A. Panossian (18 papers each) and G. Wikman (14 papers) were the three top most productive authors. Phytomedicine (25 papers), Phytotherapy Research (21 papers) and Evidence-based Complementary and Alternate Medicine (15 papers) were the three leading journals contributing research in this area.