Scientometric Analysis of Author Productivity and Collaborative Research Output in Biodiversity: An Indian Perspective (original) (raw)

Biodiversity: A Scientometric Analysis of Publications Output from India During 2003–2012

The study analyzes the biodiversity research output carried out during 2003–12 on different parameters including; share and citation impact, international collaborative papers, contribution of various subject fields, productivity and citation profile of top Indian institutions and authors. The Web of Science Database has been used to retrieve data for 10 years (2003–12). RCI and ACCP were applied to evaluate the scientific impact of publications. India holds 13th rank among the productive countries in biodiversity research consisting of 1,206 papers with a global publication share of 3.01%.

A Scientometric Study of Indian Scientists based on Web of Science Data for 2013-2022

ILIS Journal of Librarianship and Informatics, 2023

The aim of the study is to assess the scientific productivity of Indian Scientists over a period of ten years from 2013 to 2022 by examining their publications covered in the Web of Science (WoS) database. A total of 15,746 contributions were identified and their scientometric parameters were collected and analysed. The analysis include the annual number of contributions during the period, total number of citations received and the annual mean citations per contribution. The top ranking 25 scientists were identified and their contributions were further analysed based on the number of contributions in their names, the number of citations received, and the scientometric measures like h-index, g-index and m-index.

Authorship Patterns in Biodiversity Literature: A Scientometric Analysis

The study presents the authorship patterns in the field of Biodiversity Literature based on the publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the period from 1989 to 2016. Overall total 154654 records were retrieved. BibExcel toolbox and MS-Excel spreadsheet were used to analyze the data. Findings of the analysis revealed that the single author papers have declining trend and there by collective contributions have an increasing performance in scientific research activities. It is found that the degree of collaboration is an increasing and decreasing trend. The collaborative index for universal level value of 4.50 show popularity towards collaborative research pattern than single research in biodiversity literature. The Gaston KJ Published 257 papers with 83.863 fractional numbers an average of 0.33 got first position.

Scientific Publications of Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1989-2018): a Scientometric Study

International Multidisciplinary E- Research Journal, 2019

The study is relies upon the scientific publications published by the Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1989-2018). The data collected from the Web of Science. The analysis includes yearly output of research productivity. The study focuses on Author Productivity pattern, types of documents/records, individual author’s research productivity and their TLCS (Total Local Citation Score), TGCS (Total Global Citation Score) TLCR (Total Local Citation References) and TLCSb (Total Local Citation Score in the beginning), H-index and citation count of core contributors, Journal Publications, geographical collaboration of authors (countries of contributing authors) and distribution of research output by language.

Scientometric Assessment of Publication Productivity of JNTBGRI, Thiruvananthapuram

Desidoc Journal of Library Information Technology, 2014

The article explores the scientometric assessment of publication productivity of Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI). The data for the study was taken from the Annual report of the JNTBGRI from 2001-2010 which were then tabulated and analysed. The scientists of JNTBGRI prefer mostly Indian journals to publish their articles. Journal of Economic Taxonomic Botany tops the list with the highest number of articles 50 (9.11 %), followed by Zoos (Print Journal) with 39 articles. India is the leading country with 54.67 % of total journals. The collaboration coefficient of journal article during the year 2010 is found to be 0.7541. The articles published in the journal Current Science got 45 citations and Journal of Ethnopharmacology got only 5 citations. The article tries to analyse the country-wise distribution of journals, collaboration-coefficient in research and subject areas in which research has been done.

Publications Output of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science during 2008 2017 a Scientometric Assessment

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

The present scientometric study assesses the publication output of the scientists of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) during 2008 to 2017 as reflected in the Web of Science database to figure out the research performance, scholarly communication behaviour and its citation impact. The scientists of IACS contribute total 4,304 research articles including 22.58 percent international collaborated articles. Further, the publications have been evaluated in terms of year, types of collaboration, authorship pattern, source journals, impact factor, collaborating institutions, collaborating countries and citations. It is found that majority of the published articles are produced by three authored and the international collaborated articles which receive wider citation impact. The developed countries like USA, Japan, Germany and England are found as the most favoured countries by the scientists of IACS for research collaboration and the Journal of Physical Chemistry C s...

Scientometric Analysis of World Biodiversity Literature

The study presents the scientometric analysis of world biodiversity literature based on the publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the period from 1989 to 2016. Overall total 154654 records were retrieved. BibExcel toolbox and MS-Excel spreadsheet were used to analyze the data.Findings of the analysis revealed that relative growth rate of article contributions of biodiversity literature has shown a decreasing trend, whereas the doubling time for publications has shown increasing trend.The most prolific contributor in the field of biodiversity literature among the authors are Gastone, KJ gets the first rank with 257 (0.17%) publications.The multi authored papers rank first in order with a total of 139206 (90.01%) contributions and remaining 15448 (9.99%) contributions are from the single authors.The Chinese Academy of Sciences occupies the first rank among the top institutions contributing Biodiversity literature by contributing 2305 publications during the study period. It is also found that 24223 (15.66%) publications on world biodiversity literature did not receive any citations.

Scientometric Dimensions of Research Productivity of the Botany Department, During 1960-2000

Bibliometric analysis for 160 theses and 739 thesis articles collected from the Botany Department at The University of Burdwan in eight subdivisions of Botany during 1960-2000 has been carried out to determine year wise productivity, authorship pattern and collaboration. The study has identified that the highest number of thesis submission was 40 during 1981-1985 and the highest number of article submission was 189 during 1976-1980. The highest 22 number of theses were guided by Balen Nandi. Authorship trend is towards multiauthored papers. The Degree of Collaboration is 0.70. The most prolific author was M.A Choudhuri who topped the list with 54 papers during the period 1960-2000 followed by A Mukherjee with 48 publications, P.S Basu with 31 publications, K Gupta with 30 publications and B Nandi, with 27 publications. Among the top ranking journals publishing the papers are from India with 373 (50.47 %) publications followed by Germany with 61(8.29 %) publications, China with 53 (7.17 %) publications and Netherlands with 45(6.09 %) publications.

Scientometric Analysis of Scholarly Publications of University of Mumbai from 2001 to 2019

2021

The study deals with the analysis of research output by the University of Mumbai from 2001 to 2019. The University has published 3362 articles, out of which 3205 research articles, proceeding articles, and reviews are taken for study. The year-wise distribution shows the highest publications found in 2008 with 260 articles. The study used Domestic Collaboration Index (DCI) and International Collaboration Index (ICI). It shows the highest domestic collaboration in 2011 (112.36) and the highest international collaboration in 2006 (179.15). The study used the specialisation index (SI), and as per SI, the University of Mumbai has specialised in Engineering with a 1.194 score. The study used a Priority Index (PI) to denote the correspondence of research efforts taken by the University of Mumbai with the efforts given by India. It shows that the University of Mumbai corresponds in ‘Medical Chemistry’ in Chemistry, ‘Acoustics’ in Physics, ‘Microbiology’ in Biology, and ‘Food Science and Te...

Indian Research Output on Scientometric Literature as Indexed in Scopus: a Scientometric Exploration

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal), 2021

In recent decay, the scientometric study is one of the major research areas in scholarly communication. Researchers have conducted their research in the scientometric field from different core subject areas. Using bibliographic records on a scientometric field from the SCOPUS database, this paper tries to give a complete view of the evaluation of Indian research in the domain of scientometric. From 2010-2019 researchers have published 41462 publications out of the 334 number publications belongs to the scientometric domain of Indian research. Researchers have critically analyzed the collected data on various aspects like year-wise publication, author collaboration, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient (CC), leading authors, productive journal, state-wise production in India, and mostly used keyword. The finding of the study disclosed that the maximum number of articles (97) published in the year 2019 with 222 citations. In the year 2015 got the highest number of citations (355) from only 31 publications. The highest number of articles are two-authored (140) followed by three-authored (89) and single-authored (54) respectively, and the average number of authors per article is 2.13. In respect of state-wise production, New Delhi has stood the first position with 191 publications. The word "scientometric" is the most used keyword and the top productive journal is Library Philosophy and Practice (114).