Congenital Rubella Syndrome: A Scientometric Study

Abstract

The main goal of the present study is to analyses and evaluate Congenital Rubella Syndrome research publications using Dimension AI Database during the years 2013 to 2022 through scientometric measurements. For that, a total of 479 articles were downloaded from Dimension AI with bibliographic details. It is observed that the majority of publications published in the form of Journal Articles 461 (96.24%), the highest number of contributions is 61 (12.73%) was published in 2020. Maximum AGR (28.21) recorded in the Year 2016, in the year 2021 (1.22) maximum ARoG recorded and minimum in the year 2016 (0.78). The highest number of articles have been published by the collaboration of six and more than six authors 220 (45.93%). It shows multi – author prominence rather than a single author. CC 0.78 was recorded in the Year 2021, MCC result similar to CC. The highest Collaborative Index was recorded in the Year 2017. The mean of relative growth for the first five years 2013 to 2017 is (0.35) and the mean relative growth rate for the last five years 2018 to 2022 is reduced to (0.16). It has been found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ contribute the highest number of publications, contributing to 15 (3.13%). Ingelo, Joseph P stood in the first position with the highest number of 17 (3.55%) articles as top author. The United States has the top rank with 136 (28.4%) publications.