Surveillance of Morbidity of Head Injury in Indian Scenario: A Bibliometrics Study

Kunal Mishra; Manoj Mishra; Pusparaj Samantasinghar; Mahesh C Sahu

Volume : VII, Issue : X, October - 2017

Surveillance of Morbidity of Head Injury in Indian Scenario: A Bibliometrics Study

Kunal Mishra, Manoj Mishra, Pusparaj Samantasinghar, Mahesh C Sahu

Abstract :

Background: Head injury is a morbid state, resulting from gross or subtle structural changes in the scalp, skull and / or the contents of the skull produced by mechanical forces. Here, we have analyzed the published articles with respect to author’s contribution using some bibliometrics parameters.

Materials and Methods: The published articles on head injury were retrieved from SCOPUS database from the year 2012 to 2016 for this study and analysis of documents were done in respect to year of publications, source title, types of documents, subject of documents and degree of collaboration etc. All the statistical analysis was carried out with the help of SPSS 20.

Results: On analysis of all articles with Head injury, it was revealed that the highest number of open access articles was published in the year 2013 and least in the year 2016. Among all articles 678 documents are under Medicine, 108 documents are under Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics and 76 documents are listed under Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Discussion and Conclusion: Indian publications on Head injury during the year 2012 to 2016 showed interesting finding. The degree of collaboration “C” is 0.92 which means there is less work of single authors in comparison to multiple authors.