SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY: A GLOBAL LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This study presents the global level perspective of Occupational Therapy research output during the period of 1989 to 2015 and these analyses included year wise research growth, global publication share and patterns of research communication channels and the most productive journals. Data was extracted from the Web of Science citation database using the search string of “Occupational Therapy” during 1989 to 2015, a total of 8095 publications were retrieved. The highest number of records has found to be at 2013. The whole study period sample mean relative growth rate of 0.35. Thus this article can be concluded by collaborative author’s productivity dominates compared to the single author’s contribution. So there is a need of promoting single author productivity in the field of Occupational Therapy research in global level. In the country wise distribution of publications the United States of America stood in first rank position and India holds the 25th position in the global level; India has to improve in the field of Occupational Therapy in future.