Assessing the Research Impact of Scholarly Communications of Pharmaceutical Sciences in India A Scientometric Study

Abstract

This study throws a light on assessing the research impact of scholarly communications of newlineresearchers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in India. Measuring impact is important newlinefor promotion and tenure, determining research quality, visibility of institution and newlineproductivity of Indian scholars and assessing the potential for grant funding newlineetc. Pharmaceutical sciences deal with the study of drugs which evolves the depth of newlineinformation of biological, chemical, and medical sciences. The basic goal of the newlinepharmaceutical sciences is to confirm the efficacy, safety, and potency of drugs or medicine. newlineIn pharmaceutical research high investment is done to get high returns when a drug is newlinesuccessfully introduced. Tremendous growth in pharmaceutical research is found in the last newlinetwo decades. India with 1,19,323 pharmaceutical research publications indexed in Scopus newlineholds 3rd position in the global context. The growth trend of scholarly communications of newlineIndian pharmaceutical research is exponential during the research period. Indian newlinepharmaceutical researchers prefer to publish their research findings in journal articles 87.77% newlineof papers followed by review articles 8.07% of papers were published from the total output. newlineEnglish continues to be the primary language of communication for pharmaceutical research, newlineas seen by the 99.97% of scholarly communication in English that was found throughout the newlineresearch period in India. The Annual Growth Rate (AGR) of Indian pharmaceutical research newlineis highly inconsistent and registered with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of newline8.89% during the research period. The average Relative Growth Rate (RGR) of Indian newlinepharmaceutical sciences research registered at 0.217 and the Doubling time (Dt) at 3.65. The newlineRGR and Dt are inversely proportional in pharmaceutical research in India. Based on newlinedifferent scientometric indicators i.e. Activity Index (AI), Attractivity Index (AAI), and newlineTransformative Activity Index (TAI), it is noticed that the impact of Indian pharmaceutical newlineresearch improved sign