Mapping the research output of Medicinal Mushroom: A Scientometric Study

This paper attempts to show up the growth trends on Medicinal Mushroom literature and make the quantitative and qualitative assessment by analyzing various features of research output and Citations impact based on the Scopus database. A total of 3513 publications were published on Medicinal Mushroom during 1990-2020. Year 2019 has highest publication of 363 whereas the year 2015 scores the highest citation impact of 5612. The People\u27s Republic of China has the highest share 1125 of publications and received 19435 Citations followed by Taiwan with 5311 Citation for 288 publications, India with 3087 Citations for 275 publications. It’s noteworthy that USA moves the Taiwan to third place through citations wise analysis with less number of publications compared to Taiwan and India. The highly productive Institutions were: Chinese Academy of Science with 152 publications having citation of 2921 followed by University Malaya with 1849 citations having 110 records and National Chung Hsing University with 83 publications. The highly productive journals are INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS with 1004 Publications and having citation of 7798, followed by JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY and MOLECULES with 65 publications having citation of 2035 and 912 respectively. There were 126 single Author publications by the scientists and remaining were multi-Author collaborative publications. The Collaboration Index is 3.30. The average citation per document is 17.7 and an average citation per year per document is 2.06

ICT Awareness and Skills for women empowerment and entrepreneurship among rural women: a Study on the state of Tamil Nadu

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP- 1965) define Information and Communication Technologies [ICTs] are basically information-handling tools – a varied set of goods, applications and services that are used to create, store up, practice, issue and exchange information. The set include the old ICTs such as radio, television and telephone, and then new ICTs of computers, satellite and wireless technology and the Internet. These different tools are now able to work together, and combine to form our networked world. An enormous infrastructure of inter-connected telephone services standardized computing hardware, the internet, radio and television, which reaches into every corner of the globe”. at the present time, both traditional and modern ICTs are accessed and used for Various information needs of the people. Self employability and employability through ICT for rural women can enable by developing skills in the ICT areas are Use of online Transactions, Use of consumer and professional websites and apps, Use of Office Management software and Desktop Publishing Tools, Use of Storage Devices Tools, Use of Website Creation Tools, Leadership and Motivational Skills and Entrepreneurial and Employability Skills were highlighted to the surveyed rural women, the level of awareness, skills used to employability and personality level have been assesses in this stud

Evaluation of analgesic activity of levofloxacin in adult albino rats

Background: Levofloxacin is a fluorinated quinolone antimicrobial used in the treatment of various bacterial infections and was active against both gram positive and gram negative bacteria. Levofloxacin is an optically active isomer of ofloxacin. Apart from its antibacterial action, it also exhibit antinociceptive properties. This study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the analgesic activity of Levofloxacin in albino rat in comparison with aspirin.Methods: Thirty adult albino rats weighing 150-250 gm were obtained from central animal house. The animals were divided into five groups of six animals each. Group I served as control received normal feed and water. Group II served as standard received tablet aspirin 100 mg/kg (oral) and Group III, IV, V served as test T1, T2, T3 and received tablet levofloxacin 10 mg/kg, 20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg (oral), respectively. The analgesic effect of levofloxacin was evaluated using Eddy’s hot plate and tail flick methods and compared with standard analgesic aspirin. The values obtained were expressed as mean±SD. Statistical analysis of difference between groups were carried out using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Probability p<0.05 was taken as the level of statistical significance.Results: Levofloxacin at 40 mg/kg showed statistically (p<0.05) elevation in pain threshold and a higher antinociceptive activity in comparison to control and standard groups.Conclusions: In the present study, levofloxacin has showed promising results as an analgesic when compared to the control and standard groups. It may be a lead compound for identifying newer adjuvant analgesic agents

Covid-19 and Emergency Medicine: A Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications

This study analyses Covid-19 and Emergency Medicine research output during 2020-2021 on different parameters including global publications share, citation impact, contribution of authors and patterns of research communication in most productive and preferred journals. Web of Science Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 2 years (2020-2021) with 991 publications using the combined search of Covid-19 with topic field and Emergency Medicine with using Web of Science Subject Categories. The USA tops the list, with a publications share of 38.6%(383) followed far by Italy and UK ranks second with 7.7%(76), Canada with 7.6% and India ranks 14th positions with global publications share of 1.7 %(17)). The most productive Institutions are: Harvard Medical University lead with 34 Publications and received 134 Citations followed by University Toronto with 29 (96 Citations), Massachusetts Gen Hospital with 26 (86 Citations), Monash University with 22 (92 Citations), Columbia University and University Ottawa with 18 publications. The top most 5 preferred Journals are: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IF: 1.70 with 141 publication followed far by ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IF: 5.35) with 97 publications, RESUSCITATION (IF: 4.57) with 77, WESTERN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IF: 1.80) with 71 and EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL (IF: 2.04) with 64. But its average annual publication growth rate and global publication share is high and Citation quality as reflected in Average Citations Per Paper is less. Concludes that the research needs to increase its output and bring about improvement in the quality of its research efforts. This can be done by investing much more international collaboration and by modernizing and strengthening its research infrastructure in the field of Medicines

First-Time Investigation of Bombax ceiba Stem Crude Extract’s Role for Autoclave-assisted Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis from Silver Sulphate and Silver Nitrate: Multifaceted Characterization, Catalytic and Antibacterial Investigations

The Bombax ceiba plant stem extract is selected for the first time in synthesis of silver nanoparticles from silver sulphate and silver nitrate. The pH 6.5 and autoclave conditions facilitated the synthesis of low sized stable SBAN-AgNP and SBAS-AgNP in presence of 3% and 2% v/v SB (Stem extract of Bombax) from silver nitrate (AN) and silver sulphate (AS) at 0.6 and 0.4mM concentrations respectively. The formation and characterization of nanoparticles are performed by employing UV-Vis spec, XRD, FTIR, DLS and FESEM-EDS. These studies revealed that the nanoparticles are crystalline in nature with capping of functional groups from plant crude extract. The FESEM results ensured that the nanoparticles formed are spherical in shape with average particle size of obtained using silver nitrate (SBAN-AgNP) and silver sulphate (SBAS-AgNP) salts are 20.6 nm and 19.4 nm respectively. Both the SBAN-AgNP and SBAS-AgNP showed 94.6% and 87.3% catalytic reduction efficiency of 4-nitrophenol within 11 and 12 mins and are completely eliminated the synthetic dye methylene blue from water in presence of NaBH4 as reducing agent within 10 and 12 mins respectively. The synthesized SBAS-AgNP showed significant MIC, MBC, anti-biofilm and TKK activities with 31.27 ± 2.04 µg/ml MIC value against Bacillus megaterium

Film-centric promotion of scientific temper: A study of screening grassroots technological innovation short science films at schools across India

Film-centric promotion of scientific temper has been attempted the world over to influence audience perception of themes allied to science and technology which often reflect shades of social as well a cultural concern. This paper attempts to see how students in 77 under-resourced schools in 15 states of India have comprehended the science content through screenings of short science films themed on grassroots technological innovators who have had no formal technical education and yet have been able to innovate products that answered a sorely and regularly felt local need. All the short science films screened offered an amazingly simple technical solution to a real-life challenge. In a large number of instances, the challenges faced by the grassroots innovators in their daily lives were also the problems encountered by the school children who formed the audience of these films. The fact of audience identification with the films emanating from a striking similarity with the socio-economic background of the grassroots technological innovators drove a large part of this study. The analysis establishes how gender distribution of audience among nine to eighteen years of age have received the short science films and what competing ratios did the responses indicate about the degree of engagement during post-screening interactions in both rural as well as urban locations

A Bibliometric Analysis of Quassinoids Research - A Class of Bioactive Compounds

1017-1023Quassinoids are a class of bioactive compounds that are obtained from the Simaroubaceae family. This family consists of more than 170 species of trees and bushes of pantropical distribution. Due to their potent bioactivity against chronic illness, the quassinoids are regularly explored for their biological activities. This has resulted in the buildup of scientific literature. Therefore, here we analyzed the global literature, indexed in SCI-E journals up to 2018 on quassinoids which is a triterpenoid natural group of compounds. There were a total of 793 publications with 16283 citations and 10724 citations without self-citation having an h-index of 56 and average citation per item of 20.53. We have also analyzed the year wise publication growth, most prolific authors, organizations and countries, most prolific journals, frequencies of keywords, and relevant terms of title and abstract. The authorship pattern and collaboration network between countries, authors, and languages of publication have also been analyzed. Overall, this compilation will help as an essential resource to refer to the detailed evidence regarding the quassinoids research

A Bibliometric Analysis of Quassinoids Research - A Class of Bioactive Compounds

Quassinoids are a class of bioactive compounds that are obtained from the Simaroubaceae family. This family consists of more than 170 species of trees and bushes of pantropical distribution. Due to their potent bioactivity against chronic illness, the quassinoids are regularly explored for their biological activities. This has resulted in the buildup of scientific literature. Therefore, here we analyzed the global literature, indexed in SCI-E journals up to 2018 on quassinoids which is a triterpenoid natural group of compounds. There were a total of 793 publications with 16283 citations and 10724 citations without self-citation having an h-index of 56 and average citation per item of 20.53. We have also analyzed the year wise publication growth, most prolific authors, organizations and countries, most prolific journals, frequencies of keywords, and relevant terms of title and abstract. The authorship pattern and collaboration network between countries, authors, and languages of publication have also been analyzed. Overall, this compilation will help as an essential resource to refer to the detailed evidence regarding the quassinoids research

DESIGN AND IN VIVO EVALUATION OF METOPROLOL TARTRATE BILAYER FLOATING TABLETS IN HEALTHY HUMAN VOLUNTEERS

The aim of the present investigation was to prepare bilayer floating tablets of metoprolol tartrate using the combination of superdisintigrants, HPMC K grade polymers and natural polymers like xanthan gum and guar gum by direct compression method. Bilayer floating tablets were prepared using optimized immediate release layer and floating layer as sustained release layer. The physico-chemical characteristics of the prepared tablets were evaluated and found to be satisfactory. All the prepared batches showed in vitro buoyancy. It was observed that the tablets remained buoyant for more than 12 h.  Formulation F7 was selected as best formulation based on the in vitro characteristics and used in vivo radiographic studies by adding barium sulphate. These studies revealed that the tablets remained in the stomach for 210±5.4 min (n=3) in fasting human volunteers. Based on the in vivo performance in healthy subjects, the developed bilayer floating tablets showed superior bioavailability than the marketed tablets, the drug release was up to 12 h in controlled manner. The systemic availability of the best formulation was high after administration to obtain immediate action due to the immediate release layer, from sustained release layer the drug was released in controlled manner. It can be concluded that the best formulation F7 by choosing biphasic drug release pattern in a single dosage form could improve patient compliance and ensure better disease management