Scientometric highlights on science and technology related review articles affiliated to India

Anil Sagar1*, V. L. Kalyane1, E. R. Prakasan1, R. G. Garg2, Vijai Kumar1
1Scientific Information Resource Division, Knowledge Management Group,
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Maharashtra, Mumbai 400 085, INDIA
2 School of Studies in Library and Information Science, Jiwaji University,
Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior 474 011, INDIA
e-mail: anilsagarbarc@yahoo.com

Gradual growth is observed in the number of Review Articles by Indian authors being
published in recent years. More than 85 per cent of the Review Articles are written in
collaboration with more than one author. There is a scope for further comparative study
of nature of collaboration of normal articles and Review Articles. It is logical that work
involved in writing a Review Article is more than writing a normal article. Collecting the
available literature in a field, even in a micro field, is a cumbersome work. The
collaborative works gain more importance in such situations. Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Mumbai; Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; and Delhi University, New
Delhi are the premier institutions which produced more number of Review Articles. The
study finds that collaboration of Indian reviewers with people from outside India is
significant. Current Science; Research on Chemical Intermediates; Indian Journal of
Medical Research; National Medical Journal of India; and Progress in Organic Coatings
are the top five journals publishing Review Articles of Indian origin. One third of the
Review Articles taken into consideration for the study are published in journals having
Impact Factors ranged from zero to one.
Multidisciplinary Sciences; Chemistry in General; General and Internal Medicine;
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Pharmacology and Pharmacy are the main
fields in which the majority of the Review Articles are written. Authors from Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore contributes Review Articles of various subject areas than
any other affiliations of authors. Escherichia Coli; In Vitro; Crystal Structure; GeneExpression; and Polymerase Chain Reaction are the five most occurred keywords found
in the Review Articles. The inter-quartile mean of the number of Synchronous