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Literature In The Field Of Spinal Cord Injury: An Analysis, Jagannathan Ramakrishnan Dr, M Meena Dr, Kotti Thavamani Dr Mar 2019

Literature In The Field Of Spinal Cord Injury: An Analysis, Jagannathan Ramakrishnan Dr, M Meena Dr, Kotti Thavamani Dr

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ABSTRACT: Presents an analysis of the literature in the field of Spinal Cord Injury as indexed the MEDLINE database in the Pubmed for the period 2008 to the 2017. It is noticed that the total of 28303 records on the literature of Spinal Cord Injury is covered. It is also noticed that the maximum number of records was published during year 2017. It was observed that the Journal Article consists of 41.73% and other publication types with different percentages. English language forming 95.07% of the total and other languages follows with minimum records. The United States has contributed the highest …


Researchgate Profiles Of Naval Architecture Scientists In India: An Altmetric Analysis, Sheeja Nk, Susan Mathew K. Feb 2019

Researchgate Profiles Of Naval Architecture Scientists In India: An Altmetric Analysis, Sheeja Nk, Susan Mathew K.

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This study aims to conduct an altmetrics analysis of researchers on Indian Naval Architecture. The study covered sixty-fourfacultymembersonNaval Architecture discipline from six higher education institutions in India. The profile page of ResearchGate (RG) was visited to collect altmetrics indicators. The study also tried to perform scientometric analysis of publication outputs, citations and H-index of the researchers using the Scopus database. The study further investigated the correlation of altmetrics and scientometric indicators with Pearson correlation test. The study found that the 65 percent of the researchers has an account in RG with their publications being uploaded in RG. Most of them …


An Assessment Of Subject Coverage Of Scientometrics From 2001 To 2010, Ashutosh Agrahari Mr. Jan 2019

An Assessment Of Subject Coverage Of Scientometrics From 2001 To 2010, Ashutosh Agrahari Mr.

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The study has categorised 1241 articles into research and non-research articles, for analysing subject coverage, publication trend and prolific author of the journal Scientrometrics from the period 2001 to 2010. All articles were classified under 22 subjects using non-parametric method. The study found a sharp positive growth in research articles over the period while a negative growth has been observed in non-research articles only. Most of the research articles were devoted to Bibliometric Study, Citation Studies, Research Output, Collaboration Analysis, while the major topic for non-research articles were Bibliometric study, patent analysis, statistics and research assessment over the period. The …


Mapping Of Nephrology Research Performance Of Global Scientists In Science Citation Index Expanded, Chandran Velmurugan Jan 2019

Mapping Of Nephrology Research Performance Of Global Scientists In Science Citation Index Expanded, Chandran Velmurugan

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This paper has made an attempt to highlight the Neurology research in global level as per the scientific publications appeared in the Web of Science citation database during the period 2006-2015. It found a total of 23, 335 publications were published by the global researchers in the field of Neurology. The average number of publications published was 2333.5 and the highest numbers of publications (3357) were published in the year 2015. This paper tried to analyze the broad features of literature on global warming focusing on year wise growth of publications, most prolific authors, highly productive institutes, highly productive countries, …


Research Trends In Global Output Of Cosmic Rays: A Scientometric Analysis, Dr. K. Kaliyaperumal, R. Santha Kumar, Dr. P. Balasubramanian Jan 2019

Research Trends In Global Output Of Cosmic Rays: A Scientometric Analysis, Dr. K. Kaliyaperumal, R. Santha Kumar, Dr. P. Balasubramanian

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This paper attempts to highlight the publication status and growth of global cosmic rays research output of Web of Science during 2004-2013. A total of 20395 publications were published on cosmic rays during this period. The average number of publications per year is 2039.5 and the highest number of publications 2565 was published in 2009. The scientometric parameters studied in this paper include forms of publications, annual growth rate, relative growth rate and doubling time of publications, authorship pattern, identification of most prolific authors, country wise distribution of publications, identification of highly productive institutions, language wise distribution of publications …


Climate Change Research Literature In India: A Scientometric Analysis During 1991 – 2018, Alex P, Kishore Kumar S Jan 2019

Climate Change Research Literature In India: A Scientometric Analysis During 1991 – 2018, Alex P, Kishore Kumar S

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Climate change research was assessed in India by Scientometric analysis between the period 1991to 2018. Data were downloaded from the Web of Science (Science Citation Index). The twenty-eight years of study from 1991 to 2018 were used to study the increase in research on climate change. The search string used to search the database was "Climate Change” Search string used in the "Subject" field and the period 1991-2018 were limited and the country of India was refined to download climate change records. A total of 5360 records were identified and downloaded. The records were analyzed to study the year-wise distribution, …


Mapping Of Research Output On Eosinophilia In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Jeyshankar -. Ramalingam -, Chithiraivel S Jan 2019

Mapping Of Research Output On Eosinophilia In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Jeyshankar -. Ramalingam -, Chithiraivel S

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This study analyses the Eosinophilia research output carried out during the year 1998 – 2017 the different parameters including authorship pattern, growth, Time Series Analysis Degree of Collaboration, Institutions’ contribution, most productivity journals were analysed. The overall growth rate of literature output is found to be positive with an increasing trend in Eosinophilia research throughout the study period. Two and more authored papers constitute majority of the contribution and degree of collaboration had a maximum value of 7.14. The result shows that research development activities are increasing in Eosinophilia research in India.


Research Output Of Icar-Indian Institute Of Horticultural Research: A Scientometric Study, Suresh N, Thanuskodi S Dr Jan 2019

Research Output Of Icar-Indian Institute Of Horticultural Research: A Scientometric Study, Suresh N, Thanuskodi S Dr

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This paper deals with the analysis of research output of ICAR- Indian Institute of Horticulture, Bangalore (ICAR-IIHR) during 1989 to 2018 appeared in web of science database. It attempts to analyze the growth and development of research activity of ICAR-IIHR as reflected in publications output in web of science database. Data for a study is total of 1095 have been downloaded and analyzed according to objectives. The study reveals that the growth of literature follows the exponential growth pattern, journal articles are the most published form of literature (90.13%), Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences followed by Current Science are top …


Green Technology Literature From India As Reflected In Web Of Science From 2000 To 2015, Aswathy S Dr, Saravanan G Dr. Jan 2019

Green Technology Literature From India As Reflected In Web Of Science From 2000 To 2015, Aswathy S Dr, Saravanan G Dr.

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Publication Trends Of Pakistan Heart Journal: A Bibliometric Study, Saeed Ullah Jan 2019

Publication Trends Of Pakistan Heart Journal: A Bibliometric Study, Saeed Ullah

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Objective:This paper aims to describe bibliometric study of scholarly literature published in Pakistan Heart Journalcoveringperiod from 2005 to 2015 and to explore publication trends.

Methodology:This quantitative study applied required bibliometric methods to analyze Originalarticles, authorship pattern, citations, contributions from different regions and other relevant parameters of Pakistan Heart Journal covering period from January 2005 to June 2015. The data is collected from Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Library.

Results:The study reveals that number of articles published in each issue of the journal ranges from 09 to 44. In regard to productivity, male authors hadhighest contribution (90.84%) and majority …


Visualization And Scientometric Mapping Of Global Agriculture Big Data Research, Guptnath Trivedi Jan 2019

Visualization And Scientometric Mapping Of Global Agriculture Big Data Research, Guptnath Trivedi

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The present paper is a scientometric and visualization study of global Agriculture Big Data (ABD) research. however as per the quantification is concern, very little research have performed in the area of Agriculture Big Data. The study aims to traverse the present status of Agriculture Big Data research through network analysis and visualizations study of the ABD publications. A total of 379 publication data were downloaded from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database within the time span of "all years". VOSviewer, MS-Excel and R statistical software is used for data analysis. Various results are drawn based on annual scientific production, …


Characteristics Of Classic Papers Of Library And Information Science: A Scientometric Study, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Faezeh Ekhtiyari Jan 2019

Characteristics Of Classic Papers Of Library And Information Science: A Scientometric Study, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Faezeh Ekhtiyari

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Classic papers are novel facilities of Google scholar. These papers were first developed by Google scholar in May 2017. Classic papers have been considered highly cited papers since last 10 years. Effective authors, institutions, universities, and countries on improving science can be identified by analyzing the papers. Therefore, this study aims to examine characteristics of classic papers of Library and Information Science (LIS). This study will use Scientometrics indicators. The study sample includes LIS classic papers. To gather the data, some databases such as Google scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus are applied. Excel and SPSS applications are used for …


Scientometric Analysis Of Graphene, Raashida Amin, Arshia Ayoub, Zahid Ashraf Wani Jan 2019

Scientometric Analysis Of Graphene, Raashida Amin, Arshia Ayoub, Zahid Ashraf Wani

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Purpose

The unique properties of graphene and its extensive applications has turned it an emerging area of research. Therefore, this study is an attempt to analyse the research output trends in graphene during the period 2010 – 2012 for the publications indexed by Web of Science.

Methodology

The study maps the parameters of output, journal productivity and the impact strength of publications. The Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science database core collection was used to retrieve the data. Quantitative analysis of quantity and quality of research out-put was undertaken to attain the objectives.

Findings

The analysis revealed a steep …