  The present study examined 4698 Indian Coronary Artery Disease research
publications, as indexed in Web of Science database during 1990-2019, with a
view to understand their growth rate, global share, citation impact,
international collaborative papers, distribution of publications by broad
subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors,
and preferred media of communication. The Indian publications registered an
annual average growth rate of 11.47%, global share of 1.14%, international
collaborative publications share of 38.89% and its citation impact averaged to
25.58 citations per paper. Among broad subjects, Cardiovascular System &
Cardiology contributed the largest publications share of 19.14% in Indian
coronary artery disease output, followed by Neurosciences & Neurology (14.94%),
Pharmacology & Pharmacy (8.51%), etc. during 1990-2019. Among various
organizations and authors contributing to Indian coronary artery disease
research, the top 20 organizations and top 30 authors together contributed
40.70% and 37.29% respectively as their share of Indian publication output and
38.36% and 33.13% respectively as their share of Indian citation output during
1990-2019. Among 1222 contributing journals in Indian coronary artery disease
research, the top 30 journals registered 30.80% share during 1990-2019. There
is an urgent need to increase the publication output, improve research quality
and improve international collaboration. Indian government also needs to come
up with a policy for identification, screening, diagnosis and treatment of
coronary artery disease patients, besides curriculum reform in teaching,
capacity building, patient education and political support are badly needed.
