Global Research on Tinospora cordifolia (Medicinal Plant) with Special Reference to India: A Scientometric Assessment Publications Output during 2001-2016

The paper examines 865 global and 747 Indian publications on Tinospora cordifolia research, as indexed in international Scopus database during 2001-2016. Indian research output experienced an annual average growth rate of 11.85%, global publication share of 86.36%, international collaborative publication share of 7.50% and qualitative citation impact averaged to 15.15 citations per paper. Pharmacology, toxicology & pharmaceutics, among subjects, accounted for the highest publications share (57.30%) in Indian output, followed by medicine (33.60%), biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (23.83%), agricultural & biological sciences (16.06%), chemistry (5.62%), immunology & microbiology (4.55%), environmental science (4.28%) and veterinary science (2.95%) during 2001-2016.The top 15 most productive Indian research organizations and the authors collectively contributed 24.23% and 14.73% respectively as their Indian publication share and 42.70% and 16.59% respectively as their Indian citation share during 2001-2016. Among the total Indian journal output with 98.39% Indian share, the top 20 journals contributed 31.32% share to the Indian journal output during 2001-2016. Of the total Tinospora cordifolia Indian research output, the top 18 highly cited publications registered citations from 104 to 1014 and they together received 4110 citations, with 228.33 citations per paper. These 18highly cited papers involved the participation of 72 authors and 33 organizations and were published in 9 journals.