Scientometric Analysis of Pharmacognosy Magazine: A Decade of Quality Publishing

Objective: This study attempt to quantitative assessment of journal productivity by the number of articles published in Pharmacognosy Magazine publications between 2011 and 2020. The present study provides a detailed scientometric analysis of publications by year‑wise and citation count, document type, highly productive institutions, highly productive authors, most cited papers, country collaborations, and most used keywords of the journal. Methodology: The publication data on Pharmacognosy Magazine publications have been retrieved by using Web of Science database and the journal web page. The collected data were tabulated using MS Excel, later, we used the VOSviewer and biblioshiny for network graphs. Results: Results found that the 1494 publications and average citations per author 5.807. Average publication per year is 4.51, average citations per documents is 5.807, and majority of publications are published as articles, i.e. 1477, total 1574 institutes contributed 1494 papers, 29 (1.941%) papers published by single author, and the rest 1465 papers were published in collaborations. Conclusion: These results indicate that Pharmacogn Mag is one of the leading journals in where the journal is indexed, with publications from a wide range of authors, institutions, and countries around the world. The study summarizes using various scientometric techniques and analyzing the journal impact, prominent topics, most prolific authors and their affiliations, collaborative countries output, and most used keywords.