A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE OUTPUT IN THE JOUNAL SURVEY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Survey of Opthalmology is an international peer reviewed journal which publishes clinically oriented surveys in the field of ophthalmology. This study is an attempt to investigate and analyse the literature corpus published in the journal during the period 2014-2018. The data was obtained from PubMed. It was found that a total of 377 literatures were published during the period 2014-2018 by 1,520 authors. Two authorship pattern was the popular authorship pattern and degree of collaboration was 0.93. Majority of the first authors were from USA. The first authors from India had contributed 3.4% in the literature corpus. Most of the first authors from India were from LV Prasad Eye Institute and Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences. Majority of the first authors from other countries were working in Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. The literature corpus was cited by 5,028 literatures. “Humans” was the most popular MeSH/keyword