Biodiversity Research in India: A Bibliometric Analysis.

The study examines India's performance based on its publication output in Biodiversity during 1992-2009, based on several parameters, including the country annual average growth rate, global publication share, rank among ten countries of the world, national publication output, authorship pattern, high productive Indian Institutes etc. The study uses 18 years (1992-2009) publications data in Biodiversity of India and other countries drawn from Scopus International Multidisciplinary Bibliographical Database. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]