Author(s) |
Sagar, A.; Kalyane, V. L.; Prakasan, E. R.; Garg, R. G.; Kumar, V.
|
Review Articles are of primary importance as a scholarly output and have become a secondary
source in order to access older primary literature. The present study is a quantitative
documentation of ‘Review Articles’ published during 2000-2005 in the Science Citation Index (SCI)
and having India in the affiliation of authors. SCI considers article having 100 or more
synchronous references as ‘review’. Records with ‘Review’ in Document type field are extracted
out from the results of the search ‘India’ in the ‘Address word’ field for the indicated publication
period, which resulted in a total of 2042 records by 5135 individual authors in over 640
individual journals. Authors from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India are in the forefront
among the most productive review writers. Findings indicated that the average yearly growth
rate is 11.04, and that 85.16 per cent of the total Review Articles are written in collaboration. Of
these collaborative works, 22.9 percent are written with authors from 78 different countries. The
study clearly shows that collaboration of Indian reviewers with people from outside India is
significant. Multidisciplinary Sciences; Chemistry in General; General and Internal Medicine;
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Pharmacology and Pharmacy are the main fields in
which majority of the Review Articles are written. The inter-quartile mean of the number of
Synchronous References of the 2042 Review Articles is found as 94.84.
|