A bibliometric study of Embelia ribes

Abstract

Purpose -The study aims to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific output of the plant Embelia ribes, the aim being to offer an overview of research activity in this field and characterize its most important aspects. Design/methodology/approach -A total of 332 articles were collected from following databases: Pub Med, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstract, Indian Science Abstract and Biological Abstract. The searches were restricted to published articles and contain the terms Embelia ribes and Vidanga.

Research output on Lavender, 2008–2012

“…Predominance of multiple authorship has also been observed in the fields of AIDS [24], Fiber Optics [25], Psychology [32], Agriculture [44] and Service innovation [45] while in the fields of Homeopathy [26] and Embelia ribes [29] authors have preferred to work at individual levels. From Table 5, it is clear that authors have worked in the largest group of 14.…”

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Scientific Databases

“…Selected species or genera have been thoroughly investigated with regard to information aspects in databases, for example Origanum and Lippia (Bartol and Baricevic 2002), Nigella sativa (Anwar 2005), Embelia ribes (Singh et al 2008), Punica granatum (Al Qallaf 2009), and Artemisia (Ram 2011).…”