Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract:

Aim: Scientometric profile of Indian journal of Pharmaceutical research has been carried out in this study to highlight and identify the year-wise growth of publication and citation, authorship pattern, prolific organizations, countries, citation profile, international outreach, two year and five year impact factor trend during year 2007-2018. Materials and Methods: Web of science core collection database of Clarivate Analytics was used to retrieve the data using advance search feature. Search field IS=0019-5464 was used to extract the data. Document type “Correction” was excluded from the study. Software Vosviewer visualizing scientific landscape version 1.6.11 were used for keyword and co-author network analysis. Results: During 2007-2018 there were 997 papers published in Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research with total citation 1714 and h-index 14. KLE University is the most contributing organization in Indian journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research. 30.2% of the articles published in journal are from foreign countries led by Turkey with 93 publications. Among top 10 highly cited papers, 9 articles published in the year 2011. Conclusion: Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research has world-wide coverage with 58 countries other than India and citation rate is showing increasing trend. Two year and Five year impact factor is all time high in year 2018 with 0.445 and 0.425 respectively. This paper highlights its significance in coverage of pharmaceutical sciences and allied areas hence useful for students, teachers, publisher and Librarian in formulating policies for journal selection.

Key words: IJPER, Citation profile, Scientometrics, Pharmaceutics, Journal evaluation.