Dengue Fever: A Bibliometric Analysis of India’s Contributions to the Research Literature of This Dangerous Tropical Disease

Abstract

Dengue is a mosquito-borne infectious tropical disease that has a particularly adverse impact on India. A bibliometric analysis disclosed that India has one of the most prominent records in the world in terms of output of dengue articles and citations to them. Indians are frequently research collaborators with scientists from other countries affected by the disease, with a significant number of the resulting articles being published in Indian journals and subsequently well cited. Internationally more prominent journals published in the United States, the United Kingdom, or Germany dominate as venues for the 10 most-cited dengue-related papers overall.

KEYWORDS:

• dengue
• dengue fever
• tropical diseases
• Indian scientific research
• Indian medical research
• bibliometrics