The study examines the Indian research output consisting of 717 publications on “iron deficiency
anemia” as covered in Scopus database during 2006-15. Different parameters including
publication growth, citation impact, share of international collaborative papers and identification
of major international collaborative partners, global rank and share of India amongst the top 20
most productive countries, productivity and citation impact of leading Indian institutes and
authors, medium of communication in most productive journals. The Indian publications output
in the iron deficiency anemia research consisted of 717 articles during 2006-15 and witnessed an
annual average growth rate of 18.77%. The average citation impact per article registered by the
Indian publications for iron deficiency anemia research was 6.45 during 2006-15 which
decreased from 10.63 during 2006-10 to 4.46 during 2011-15. The international collaborative
share of India in the iron deficiency anemia research was 12.27% during 2006-15 which
decreased from 12.99% during 2006-10 to 11.93% during 2011-15
