Biodiversity: A Scientometric Analysis of Publications Output from India During 2003–2012 (original) (raw)

The study analyzes the biodiversity research output carried out during 2003–12 on different parameters including; share and citation impact, international collaborative papers, contribution of various subject fields, productivity and citation profile of top Indian institutions and authors. The Web of Science Database has been used to retrieve data for 10 years (2003–12). RCI and ACCP were applied to evaluate the scientific impact of publications. India holds 13th rank among the productive countries in biodiversity research consisting of 1,206 papers with a global publication share of 3.01%.