CITED PAPERS ON ALZHEIMER DISEASE: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS USING SCOPUS DATABASE

The impact of Alzheimer's disease on the population is signicant. Alzheimer's disease rose from the 25th most burdensome disease in the world. In order to identify depth and importance of the disease a scientometric study has been carried out. The study was carried out with the objective to examine the cited publications in Alzheimer's disease research and to examine the chronological growth of cited publications. The literature on Alzheimer's disease research data has been downloaded from 'Scopus', multidisciplinary online database, which is an international indexing and abstracting database, using the search term “Alzheimer's”. A total of 1,79,722 records have been identied during the period of 1970-2017 (48 years). The study was carried out with the objective to examine the cited publications in Alzheimer's disease research and to examine the chronological growth of cited publications. Further study identies the authorship pattern of cited publications. The data were analysed based on trend of Cited publications; Citation and type of access; Yearwise growth; Block yearwise; Authorship pattern and Document type of cited publications. Nearly 85.3% of publications were cited and only 14.7% of publications were uncited. The study reveals that the citation of articles gets study increase every year during the study period and seems to be in linear trend. Nine papers out of 10 papers get cited irrespective of document type except short survey.