LITERATURE SEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF TOP 100 CITED ARTICLES IN ALOE VERA: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TOP 100 CITED ARTICLES IN ALOE VERA

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is a tremendous increase in the growth of researchers in the field of aloe vera over the years. Although they are numerous articles which are published every year, few of them provides an important and relevant conceptual advances in that particular field and are found to be influential in the evolution of the field. The number of Citations can always be a reflector as a proxy marker in that particular field.

AIM: The aim of the current bibliometric analysis is to assess the top cited articles (n=100) on herbal medicine as of august 2019.

Materials and method: Google scholar database was searched using freely available software, Publish or Perish. Information related to number of citations, publication title, publication year, and name of the journal was assessed in the current analysis.

Result: Top 100 cited articles were analysed. Nearly 1000 articles were screened in which top 100 were selected according to the citation research. These citation classics provide an important insight into the historical developments.

Conclusion: Herbal medicine has gone its long way from 1900 to the trending topic of today’s scenario. Hence this citation analysis will help the further research who works in the field of herbal medicine to get the best obtained result so far.