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Dengue is currently regarded globally as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease. The true impact of dengue globally is difficult to ascertain due to factors such as inadequate disease surveillance, misdiagnosis, and low levels of reporting. Currently available data likely grossly underestimates the social, economic, and disease burden. Estimates of the global incidence of dengue infections per year have ranged between 50 million and 200 million; however, recent estimates using cartographic approaches suggest this number is closer to almost 400 million. There are about 6,031 research papers collectively contributed by 22,234 scientists published in 6007 scientific periodicals in recent 8 years as the focus on this fever attracts attention of Scientists at the considerable rate. The present paper attempts to check the applicability of Price’s Law on the citations of 6031 global publications on Dengue. The study lights on the trend of scientific productivity, h-index and productivity of authors, the total citation sum of top cited journals are scientifically analysed.

The study examines the analysis of research output by the Universities of West Bengal from 2002 to 2021. Journal articles are the most preferred form of publication type of documents by the Universities of West Bengal. It shows the highest RGR value among seven universities is obtained by Vidyasagar University in the year 2021 and the lowest value is obtained by the University of Calcutta in the year 2021. The study used Domestic Collaboration and International Collaboration and it shows the highest paper 11529 (38.38%) was published at the domestic level and international level 3140 (43.87%) by Jadavpur University. It found that 16.82 % of the total publications are open access research articles with 6255. It is quite interesting to know that Jadavpur University has a significant lead towards encouraging the researcher to publish in open access journals with 33.78%. The most productive author is Subhadeep Das, Department of Life Sci. & Biotechnology, Jadavpur University with 908 articles ranked in first place among the universities studied.