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The paper examines 1422 global publications on health tourism research, as covered in Scopus database during 2007-16, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 7.26% and qualitative impact averaged to 8.78 citations per paper. The top 10 most productive countries individually contributed global share from 2.91% to 22.41%, with largest global publication share coming from USA (24.12%), followed by U.K. (12.59%), Canada and Australia (7.45% and 7.10%), India and Germany (3.45% and 3.38%) etc. Together, the 10 most productive countries accounted for 70.61% share of global publication output during 2007-16. Six of top 10 countries scored relative citation index above the average (1.46): Italy (2.97), Netherlands (1.99), Germany (1.92), Canada (1.66) and France (1.59) during 2007-16. Medicine, among subjects, contributed the largest publication share (66.67%),%), followed by social sciences (20.32%), business, accounting & management (12.38%), environment science (8.65%), biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (5.70%), nursing (5.49%), arts & humanities (4.57%) and economics, econometrics & finance (3.66%) during 2007-16. The top 15 most productive organizations and authors together contributed 17.02% and 14.77% respectively as their share of global publication output and 27.66% and 32.41% respectively as their share of global citation output during 2007-16. Among the total journal output of 1317 papers, the top 10 journals contributed 17.16% share to the global journal output during 2007-16. Of the total global health tourism research output, the top 19 highly cited publications registered citations from 82 to 178 and they together received 2224 citations, with 117.05 citations per paper. These 19 highly cited papers involved the participation of 26 authors and 27 organizations. Among leading countries contributing to high cited research, the largest number of papers (7) came from USA, followed by U.K (5 papers), Italy (4 papers), Belgium, Netherlands and Canada (3 papers each), Denmark, Australia and Germany (2 papers each), Switzerland, France, New Zealand, Spain, Iran, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Israel and Chile (1 paper each). The 19 highly cited papers involved the participation of 95 authors and 78 organizations. These 19 highly cited papers were published in 16 journals; of which of which 2 papers were published in Emerging Infectious Diseases and Human Reproduction and 1 paper each in other journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines 492 Indian publications on gallbladder cancer research, as covered in Scopus database during 2006-15, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 2.46% and citation impact of 7.10. The world gallbladder cancer output (6289 publications during 2005- 14) came from several countries, of which the largest global publication share (21.07%) came from USA, followed by Japan (15.58% share), China, (11.32%), India (7.82% share), South Korea (5.76% share), U.K., Germany and Italy (from 4.09% to 4.82%), France and Canada (from 2.02 to 2.67%) during 2006-15. India's global publication share was 7.82% and hold 4th rank in global output during 2006-15. India's international collaborative publications share in gallbladder cancer was 9.96% during 2006-15, which increased from 9.80% to 10.07% from 2006-10 to 2011-15. Medicine, among subjects, contributed the largest publication share (92.68%), followed by biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (3.789%), pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (3.46%), immunology and microbiology (1.42% share) and agricultural and biological sciences (1.22% share) and during 2006-15. Diagnosis, surgery, pathology and prognosis, among treatment methods, together accounted for 89.84% share of the total publication output on gallbladder cancer in India during 2006-15. The four cities, namely, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Varanasi together accounted for 56.90% of the country output during 2006-15. The most productive 15 Indian organizations, authors and journals in gallbladder cancer research together contributed 67.89%, 53.66% and 37.80% share respectively in the cumulative publications output of India in gallbladder cancer research during 2006-15. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]