Research Output and Visualization of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India: A Special Reference to Open Access
Keywords:
Data visualization, Citation analysis, Data analysis, Annual growth rate, Open access, Research Productivity, AIIMS.Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of bibliographic data from 12,157 research papers published by six prestigious All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) namely AIIMS Raipur, AIIMS Bhopal, AIIMS Jodhpur, AIIMS Rishikesh, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, and AIIMS Patna and indexed in the Scopus database between 2013 and 2023. The results indicate that these AIIMS institutions have generated 12,157 documents with an average of 8.266 citations per document. The yearly growth rate of publications stands at 35.73%. The study identifies that the most preferred format among researchers is the article (7,495). Out of the total documents, 7,133 were published in open access between 2013 and 2023. Of these, 5,302 were in green open access, 4,034 in gold open access, 1,561 in bronze open access, and 387 in hybrid gold open access. AIIMS Jodhpur has the highest total number of publications (3,056), while AIIMS Rishikesh leads with the most open access articles (1,758) across green, gold, and bronze categories. The highest average total citations per article (19.22) and average total citations per year (3.84) were recorded in 2020. BMJ Case Reports, with 335 articles, is the journal with the most publications. Notably, P.K. Panda and I.K. Sharawat have contributed 45 publications with 57 citations. The most frequently used keywords are "human," "article," and "male."
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