Analysis Of Productivity Pattern Of Publications And Research Growth Of Icmr Institutes Of Pune, Maharashtra, India: A Scientometric Study From 2012-2021

Abstract

This paper presents a scientometric study of papers published by ICMR institutes of the Pune region of Maharashtra from 2012 to 2021. There are two institutes situated in Pune e.g. ICMR-National Institute of Virology and ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute. ICMR-NIV is engaged to work in viral diseases in humans and ICMR-NARI is working for research in HIV/AIDS. This analysis covers mainly the year-wise distribution of articles, year-wise papers published in the highest Impact Factor journals, total Impact Factor and Average Impact Factors of articles, papers published in Indian and Foreign journals, papers published in Indexed and Non-indexed journals, the highest number of papers published in journals and year wise authorship pattern etc. We also studied year-wise citations received by articles and the top ten articles received the highest number of citations during the period. We found that a total of 690 papers were published by ICMR-NIV and 489 papers were published by ICMR-NARI, Pune during the period 2012-2021. The publishing of number of the papers increased with the year by ICMR-NIV. Both institutes published the papers in the highest Impact Factor journals. NIV and NARI have sequentially a total of 3105 and 2545 Total impact factors in ten years. NIV has an average ten years impact factor of 5.24 whereas NARI has a 5.29 IF average of ten years. In this study, we observed that more than 70% of papers were published in foreign and indexed journals by both institutes. NIV and NARI scientists preferred to publish their papers in the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) in which approximately 15 and 7.7 percent of papers were published in IJMR and many more study is done in this research paper. Approximately NIV 631 papers out of 690 and NARI 405 papers out of 489 papers are indexed in Web of Science. NIV received 9648 citations and NARI received 9387 citations during the period. The article received the highest number of citations in the ten years studied and observed that the paper published by NIV author Chadha M in the Lancet in 2017 has the highest 882 citations and NARI author Godbole SV’s paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2016 had highest 5351citations during the period.