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A Scientometric Analysis University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Summer 5-3-2021 RESEARCH OUTPUT ON LEPROSY DURING THE YEAR OF 2010-2020: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS Victoria P [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons P, Victoria, "RESEARCH OUTPUT ON LEPROSY DURING THE YEAR OF 2010-2020: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS" (2021). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 5604. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/5604 RESEARCH OUTPUT ON LEPROSY DURING THE YEAR OF 2010-2020: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS VICTORIA. P1 Ph.D. Research Scholar, DLIS, Periyar University, Salem-11. E-mail: [email protected] Dr.P.GOMATHI2 Assistant Professor, DLIS Periyar University, Salem-11 E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to measure the number of contributions and highlight the contributions made by the researchers in the field of leprosy and published on the Web of Science database during 2010-2020 using scientometric analysis. Data were interpreted by using software such as Bibexcel, Vosviewer, and tabulated using MS Excel. The results indicated that 4544 papers were published during 2010 - 2020 and the highest number of publications 456 (10.03%) was produced in 2020. The trends in multi-authored papers have tremendously increased (89.28%) compared to (10.72%) single-authored papers. The relative growth rate (3.13) and degree of collaboration (0.89) is noted significantly and the highest no of papers (12.50%) was contributed by the collaboration of four authors and source wise most of the records were published an article 3063. It also noted that the value of the highest degree of collaboration was (0.92) in 2020. The Sarno EN author (114) contributed more numbers of papers in the domain of leprosy with Brazil (1173) being the country producing more research papers followed by India, the USA, and the UK. More than 500 papers had been published in Leprosy, Mycobacterium-Leprae, and Diagnosis. The study inferred that the rate of growth is relation by the year wise publications of leprosy research. Keywords: leprosy, Mycobacterium-Leprae, Diagnosis, Scientometrics, Activity Index. 1.INTRODUCTION Scientometrics is the field of study which concerns itself with measuring and analysing scholarly literature. Scientometrics is a sub-field of bibliometrics. Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academic journals, the understanding of scientific citations, and the use of such measurements in policy and management contexts. In practice there is a significant overlap between scientometrics and other scientific fields such as information systems, information science, science of science policy, sociology of science, and metascience. Leprosy is a chronic, progressive bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. It primarily affects the nerves of the extremities, the skin, the lining of the nose, and the upper respiratory tract. Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease. Leprosy produces skin ulcers, nerve damage, and muscle weakness. If it isn’t treated, it can cause severe disfigurement and significant disability. Leprosy is one of the oldest diseases in recorded history. The first known written reference to leprosy is from around 600 B.C. Leprosy is common in many countries, especially those with tropical or subtropical climates. It’s not very common in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Trusted Source reports that only 150 to 250 new cases are diagnosed in the United States each year. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium Leprae (M. Leprae). It usually affects the skin and peripheral nerves. It can also affect muscles, eyes, bones, testes and other internal organs. Leprosy has a wide range of clinical manifestations. Occurrence of the disease depends upon the immunological status of the individual which in turn is influenced by genetic factors. The present historical overview of the above facts does not claim to be exhaustive, since its focus is chiefly on the nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. Among the communicable diseases, leprosy is one of the leading causes of permanent physical disability. Due to the involvement of peripheral nerves, there is a weakness of muscles and loss of sensations in hands, feet, and eyes leading to ulceration and deformity. However, timely detection and treatment of cases before nerve injure has occurred is the most effective way of preventing disability due to leprosy and its complications. Leprosy is eliminated from India in terms of statistical prevalence but from the disease problem point of view, it still poses many challenges, especially in view of integration approach. 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Sivasamy, K., &Vivekanandhan, S. (2020) examines the leprosy research publications are contributed from the Scopus database during the study period of 2009-2018 with a total numbers of 6266 publications. This study aims to analyze scientometric tools such as frequency distribution, percentage analysis, relative growth rate and doubling time, degree of collaboration. During the study period maximum of 675(10.77%) research publications are contributed in the year 2015. The relative growth rate is identified decreasing trend and doubling time is increasing trend from 2009 to 2018. Maximum of 99(1.58%) research publications are contributed by Sarno, E.N. with top-ranking authors, the average degree of collaboration is 0.83 and 4218(67.32%) of research publications are articles. India is the most contributing top-ranking countries with 1522(24.29%) leprosy research publications. Even though India is top most productive country in the leprosy research, hardly any Indian institution is not listed among the most productive institutions. Gajbe, S. S., &Sonawane, S. S. (2015) examine the authorship pattern and Degree of collaboration in Leprosy Research literature. For this purpose, the required data has been collected from the PUB Med Data Base published from 2003 to 2012. Scientometric tools such as, Authorship pattern, Degree of collaboration, collaboration co-efficient and dominance factor have been used. Applicability of Lotka's law has been tested. The study reveals that the coauthored papers are dominated and the author productivity follows the Lotka's law. Nishy, P., & Rahul, L. R. (2016) have analyzed the research carried on mycobacterial tuberculosis and leprosy in India (1987-2012). Data were collected from web of Science database. It is seen that India contributes eight percent to the global research output occupying the third position in terms of quantity of research output and ranks 12th when considering the quality and quantity together. Apart from collaboration pattern, the paper also identifies the major institutions, prolific authors and preferred journals. Three-dimensional performance indicator combining quantity, quality and consistency have been used to rank the productivity of Indian institutions and authors in the field of mycobacterial tuberculosis and leprosy research. From the study it can be concluded that India needs to concentrate more on Mycobacterium research because the cases of tuberculosis and leprosy including multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) strains are emerging each year, and there is a necessity to develop effective controlling programmes for eradicating leprosy. Chang, L., Su, Y., Zhu, R., &Duan, Z. (2019) highlighted characterize the developmental trends and collaboration features in the field of tuberculosis (TB) at the national level and identify high-impact countries. Scientometrics and social network analysis methods were used to analyze the research situation and collaboration behaviors based on TB research indexed in Web of Science from 1998 to 2017.The publication output, national collaborative rate, and collaborative level have steadily increased from 1998 to 2017. The United States of America has the largest number of highly cited publications, while Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden have higher values of average relative citation than do other countries. Notably, the United Kingdom and South Africa have established the strongest and most stable collaboration. There was increasing research activity and collaboration in the field of TB during the period 1998 to 2017, but growth shows wide variability between countries. Further comprehensive and full collaboration should be promoted. Sumathi, M., & Ranganathan, C. (2020) analyzed the Indian Scientists contributions of research papers related to the topic in Data Mining was undertaken from Web of Science Databases has been used to retrieve the data for 22 years (1999-2020) by the searching the keyword “Data Mining”. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 88.59% of articles were published in journals. More numbers of articles were published in the year 2019. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 1096 literature published, 95.53 % of the publication published under the joint author. It is observed that author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka's law, but productivity distribution data partially fits the law when the value of Chi-square to 25212.62. Further this study also identified to analyses source wise. Degree of collaboration,
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