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| Title: | Research practices in herbal medicinal plant: a case study of podophyllotoxin |
| Authors: | Ram, Shri |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: |
Medicinal Plants are the major source for the treatment
of various diseases worldwide. The present interests of the people towards the
use of herbal products are increasing. Podophyllotoxin has been
used by many countries specially Indian and American natives since long back.
Podophyllotoxin has been used as the precursor for the synthesis of anticancer
and other therapeutic drugs, pertaining to scientific research in several
dimensions. The present study is undertaken to study the use of Podophyllotoxin
as Anti-Cancer Research. There are 948 documents retrieved from Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), Web of Science Expanded Portal from the period of
1975-2007. Out of these, 86.6% documents are indexed as journals, remaining are
other kinds of documents and more than 96.20% documents are published in
English Language. Majority of the research on Podophyllum has been carried out
in three major countries of the world, i.e., USA,
China and India
comprising of about 50% of research. The authorship patterns show that there
are 92% and more documents written by two or more than two authors, and Langzhou
University of Peoples Republic of China is the highest productive
centre on Podophyllotoxin research, and the most
frequently cited document got an average citation of
12.06% since its publication.
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| Page(s): | 65-71 |
| ISSN: | 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print) |
| Source: | ALIS Vol.57(1) [March 2010]
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