DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i08.021

Pages: 1895-1900

Introduction of Study: This study is a retrospective portrait of publications, published in the Journal of Pakistan Association of Dermatologists (JPAD) indexed in the Scopus-Elsevier database from 2019 – 1999. Methodology: MS Office Excel Sheet 2010 chose to tabulate the retrieved bibliometric data. Frequency of publications, the number of acquired citations, authors’ collaboration, and contribution of institutes functioning in an an-other country aimed to investigate. Results: Total 1368 manuscripts published in seven categories by the journal during the studied period. Original articles 1092; 80%, followed by 122; 9% review articles and 80; 6% editorials got the top slot in the production. The published material was generated by 4404; 3.2% authors, majority 1132; 82.7, research papers were written collaboratively, and single or solo authors coined 236; 17.2% of the articles. Twenty-eight countries contributed in 1368 documents, with 720; 55.3% documents researchers affiliated to Pakistan, trailed by India 377; 29%, and Iran 58; 4.4% on top three slots. Conclusion: The journal of Pakistan Association of Dermatologists (JPAD) consistently publish to promote the writings in the specialty and sub-senilities of clinical dermatology, with a provision of the full range of access and discoverability of ideas and their recognition, awareness with reusability, expert peer-review services through technology.