Scholarly Communication on Global Alzheimer’s disease with Special Reference to Web of Science: A Scientometric Study

Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to examine the authorship pattern and collaborative trend in the field of Alzheimer’s disease literature in global level in the study period 2014-2018. A total of 38936 articles were published. maximum number of (32.86%) contributions are from the USA and it has been placed the first rank and the lowest number of publications were published from Australia with 4.36% among top ten countries. Out of 36749 multi authored publications high number of articles are of 24744 contributed by more than five authors and interestingly anonymous articles are of 466, only 1721 papers are independently produced by single authorship category, An average collaboration of author index, degree of collaboration and average collaborative coefficient are of authors are 4.36, 0.67 and 0.72. 6.73 is the Average Author Per Paper during the study period and 0.51 is the Average Productivity Per Author for the study period 2014 to 2018.