ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH IN INDIA- A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a prominent model organism in biological research in recent times.To know the current trend of research topics, scientists, Universities/institutions, funding organizations in the Zebrafish research has become our priority to take up this study.The study included the collection of articles on Zebrafish research published between 2000 to 2024 (July) particularly from Indian Authors through online databases-PubMed, Scispace, Web of Science, further transformed the collected bibliometric data into quantitative data and analysed it by using software tool RStudio-Biblioshiny-Bibliomatrix.From the study it has revealed that a total of 1,807 documents published from 2000 to 2024 in 672 journals, books etc., at 24.81% of annual growth rate with 18.57 average citations per document involving 8,109 authors from various institutions/University across the nation.In India UGC, and DBT are the leading funding agencies for zebra fish research.Our study provides a comprehensive and current trend on Zebra fish research in India and is baseline information to young researchers to conduct their experiments in new trend areas of zebrafish science and further Universities/institutions and funding agencies make informed decisions.