Table 1.

Categorization of skeletal dysplasia publications, with at least one contributing author from an Indian Institute

Category of publications as on July 6, 2017	Total no.
1) PubMed Search Term	614#
(a) {(“Osteochondrodysplasias”[MeSH]) AND “India”[MeSH]}	61
(b) {(“Osteochondrodysplasias”[MeSH]) AND “India”[ad]}	406
(c) {“Osteochondrodysplasias” AND “India”[ad]}	411
(d) {“Osteochondrodysplasias” AND “India”}	484
(e) {“Skeletal dysplasias” AND “India”}	25
(f) {“Skeletal dysplasia” AND “India”}	608
2) Other publications added manually	28
3) Total publications of PubMed and Manual search (1+2)	642
4) Not true SD publications	16
5) Publications where abstract or full text is not available	59
6) Publications which did not fit the categorization	27
7) Total publications excluded from the study (4+5+6)	102
8) Total SD publications considered in the study	540
(I) Reports on phenotypes [a) Case reports and series, and b) Novel syndromes]	437 [431 and 6]
(II) Reports on mutations	51
(III) Reports on novel genes	9
(IV) Reports on therapeutic interventions	31
(V) Reviews	12

^#The common publications obtained from individual PubMed search strategies were excluded