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Bibliometric Analysis of Herbal Literature and Research Output

P. Vinayagamoorthy* , P. Vinayagamoorthy* P. Chellappandi** J. Shanthi***

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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science 4(3):p 229-240, . | DOI:
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This paper presents a Bibliometric study of the literature output in the field of herbal literature covered in Biological Abstracts CD-ROM from 1990-2004. Biological Abstracts CD-ROM covered the maximum of 3401 records on herbal literature during the study period 1990 to 2004.  India ranks first in the herbal research literature output.  Herbal research literature output is found to be in 22 different languages of which English ranks first forming 86.15 per cent of the total output.  Journal articles rank first forming 92.15 per cent of the total output with 3134 items.  “Journal-of-Medicinal-and-Aromatic-Plant-Sciences” scores the first rank having produced 13.91 per cent of the total Herbal research literature output.  The result of research invalidated   Bradford’s Law of distribution.   The majority of the Herbal research is carried out by Research Institutions.  Herbal literature published in different languages from various countries ranged   from less than 10 pages up to 200 pages.
Key words: Abstracts Database, bibliographic records, Bradford’s Law of scattering, Indian literature

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