“…Dotson et al (2011) analyzed changes in the authorship and characteristics of articles in pharmacy journals during the 20 year period. In the field of bibliometrics of country output in pharmacology only a few studies have been carried out on India(Kaur and Gupta, 2009; Ahila et al, 2011; Gupta et al, 2011), China (Li et al, 2010) and Spain (Bordon and Barrigon, 2005) which deal with different facets of pharmacological research, its growth, global publication share and rank, international collaboration, institutional and authors productivity profile, etc.…”