World Research Output in Conjunctivitis Research: A Quantitative Analysis during 2002-11

This study analyses the global publications output in conjunctivitis research during 2002-11 on several parameters including contribution & citation impact of top 15 most productive countries, different types of conjunctivitis research, research output by different population age groups, subject-wise break-up of research output, relatedness of various diseases to conjunctivitis research, international collaborative share, research contribution and impact of top institutions and authors and productivity of the top journals. The Scopus Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-11) by searching the keywords "conjunctivitis" in the combined Title, Abstract and Keywords fields. The study revealed that the world publications output in conjunctivitis research consisted of 8550 papers during 2002-11, which increased from 604 papers in 2002 to 945 papers in 2011, witnessing an annual average growth rate of 5.44%. The world publications registered the average citation impact per paper of 5.72 during 2002-11, decreasing from 6.87 during 2002-06 to 4.74 during 2007-11.