Indian Research Trends in Thalassemia: a bibliometric study

Abstract

This study represents the Thalassemia research output in India during 1987 to 2020.Pub Med database has been used and retrieved 979 data on thalassemia research. It been observed that 297 sources like journals, books etc has used in this study. Study showed that 9.42 average years from publication and average citation per documents is 8.428. Multi authors have done maximum research in comparison to single authors. The author collaboration index is 2.59. Maximum no. of publication (96) published in the year 2020 and 1989 had lowest no. of publications (2). Hemoglobin” and “Indian Journal of Hematology & Blood Transfusion” has contributed highest no. of publications (61) each respectively. Indian journal of paediatrics has highest h-index =13, g index =20 and 556 total citations. All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) has contributed the maximum no. of research on thalassemia followed by Christian Medical College. Authors keywords, title keywords and abstract keywords were analyzed.