Sixteen Years of ‘Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice’: A bibliometric Analysis

Background and Objectives

The ‘Journal of Neurology in Rural Practice’ is one of the popular journal in the field of neurology being published by Asociación Ayuda Enfermo Neuroquirufgico (AAEN) since 2010. To assess the nature of research published in this journal, the objective is carrying out a bibliometric assessment of publication over a period of sixteen years.

Methodology

The bibliographic data for the bibliometric assessment has been obtained from SCOPUS database. The bibliometric assessment carried out for annual productivity, key authors, institutions and country collaboration, thematic analysis based on author keywords and topical modelling using network analysis.

Results

The study is based on 2294 documents indexed in SCOPUS database. Though India is major affiliating countries, the collaboration from United States, Nigeria, Italy, Thailand, Columbia are prominent. Among the institutions, National Institute of Mental Health and Sciences is most productive institutions. Most of the author among top ranking are from India wherein, Author from Columbia is found to be among with prominence in citation impact.

Conclusion

The journal publishing papers in the field of neurology and allied fields consistently with an annual growth rate of 6.38% per year. Though the popularity and scope of the journal is international in nature however, regional centrality is common. The research impact in terms of citation is 6.133 citations per paper as compared to other neurological journals. This necessitated the foreword looking approach to increase the research impact and visibility to international community. The publications covering the modern technology such as Artificial Intelligence is lacking which may be made a part in the future publications.