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Bibliometric Review Of Energy Storage System For Grid Connected Wind Power Plant, Jayshree Ashok Pande, Paresh Nasikkar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The integration of RESs like wind energy pose several problems for aggregators and grid operators majorly because of their intermittent and unstable behavior. The instability and intermittency can be reduced through accuracy in forecasting and reliable and effective storage and utilization. The main objective of this bibliometric review is to understand the extent of the available literature for the area of Energy Storage Systems for renewable energy resource specifically grid connected wind power plants. The bibliometric analysis is primarily based on Scopus, Research Gate, Mendeley and tools like GPS visualizer. It is revealed from the bibliometric analysis that major publications …

Use Of Social Media Space For Library Service Delivery: Evidence From Southern Nigeria Universities, Titilayo Comfort Ilesanmi Mrs., Iyabo Mabawonku Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The incorporation of social media into service delivery by librarians is essential to render tandem library services to the users in the universities. Literature has established the awareness and perception of emerging technology for personal use while there is a paucity of literature on the use of social media for library service delivery. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the use of social media for service delivery by librarians in Southern Nigeria universities. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised the librarians in the university in Southern Nigeria. Total enumeration technique was …

Rural Development Information Sources Of Digital Illiterates: A Study Of Kangpokpi, Manipur, India, Florence Guite, Paokholun Hangsing

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Abstract

Rural development focuses on improving the living condition of people living in relatively isolated, sparsely populated areas by proving minimum basic needs to the rural people through the implementation of various developmental programs. For successful implementation of development programs, active participation of the people is needed at every stage of the development process. However, these areas have very less chances of connection from the rest of the country and have no or poor means of getting information of the outside world. Therefore, there is a need to find out the preferred and effective information communication sources and channels of …

Application Of Bibliometric Laws And Literature Mapping On “Stress”, Asifa Ali, Afreen Niyaz Miss, Naheed Vaida Prof., Farhat Hassan Wani Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Today we are living in global ICT market, where technology, user perception, competition, International rivals, culture and social environment are increasingly changing day by day than our expectations. We have to prepare ourselves according to the rapid changes of ICT in fast changing environment. If we fail to face these challenges and demands, we would easily fall into the trap of stress. Stress is a negative consequence of modern living. People are stressed due to overwork, job insecurity, health related issues, multiple responsibilities and increase in pace of life. Pascal (1992) defined stress in terms of perceived environmental situation which …

Parent’S Role In Promoting Reading Habits Among Children: An Empirical Examination, Zaheer Ahmad

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Parents play an effective role in inculcating reading habits among their children because they are the first and main strength to boost and stimulate learning potential by developing the constant habit of reading. The major objective of this study was to know the parent’s perception about the effect of leisure reading on the overall educational performance of their child and determine the parental comparative reading role in behavioral, communication and academic development of the children. The population comprised of parents of those students who were studying from 6^th to 8^th grades in private schools based at Lahore, Pakistan. …

Use Of Information And Communication Technologies By School Teachers In Sri Lanka For Information Seeking, Chamani Gunasekera, R. Balasubramani Dr.

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The study examines the use of ICT by school teachers in Sri Lanka for information seeking and using the internet for communication. The survey method was adapted and the questionnaire was used as the main data collection tool for the study. The results revealed that the level of school ICT capacity in Sri Lanka is not satisfied because only the half of schools survey had ICT labs. The teachers are more confident in using word processor such as word programs and the basic ICT skills than other applications. It was found that even though a substantial amount of ICT resources …

Enhancing Literacy Learning Among Primary School Pupils In Nsukka Local Government Area Of Enugu State: The Role Of The Children’S Centre Library, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka., Ezi O. Njoku Mrs, Alice O. Okore Dr., Ngozi Eunice Osadebe Dr.

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This study examines the role of the Children’s Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in enhancing literacy learning among primary school age pupils of Nsukka Local Government Area. The study is a case study that employed qualitative method. Four specific objectives guided the study. Five members of the Children’s Centre were purposively selected to participate in the study. An unstructured questionnaire and oral face to face interview were used for data collation. The data collated were coded, sorted, interpreted and presented in narratives. Findings revealed that Children’s Centre contributed in enhancing literacy development among primary school pupils in Nsukka Local Government …

Bibliometric Analysis On Global E-Learning Literature In Web Of Science Database: With Special Reference To Sri Lankan Context, Mohamed Majeed Mashroofa, Mazuki Jusoh Prof, Karuthan Chinna Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Study of existing literature on e-learning trend is a must in order to define the path for new research in the field. The objective of this study is to find the full range of scientific literature published since the emergence of the concept of e-learning. The researcher intended to get all of the literature published in the Sri Lankan context. Web of Science database search was carried out in January 2020 to understand the research trend. This study found 6934 results for e-learning after performing a basic search in Web of Science. This results covered 59784 citations. Though multilingual literature …

Research Excellence Of Iits In Business, Management And Accounting: A Bibliometric Study, Ranjita Mishra, Dola Babu Ramesh

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The present study assesses business research in Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs). The publications of IITs in business, Management and Accounting recorded in Scopus database dates back to 1963. The study analyzed top performing nine IITs and found 5000 publications during 1963 to 2019. Bibliometric analysis is implemented on data retrieved from Scopus database. The study identifies annual growth, prolific authors, authorship trend, leading journals and Bradford’s Law is tested on the collected data of Scattering in different sources

Inclinations Of Global Research On Saffron As Represented By Science Citation Index-Expanded, Muzamil Mushtaq, Basharat Ahmad Malik, Ali Raza, Mohammad Afaan Fazili

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Using the Science Citation Index-Expanded of the Web of Science Core Collection, we analyzed global saffron research literature published between 1991 and 2017. The variables examined were research performance of nations, institutions, and authors. The study noted that the distribution of author keywords, citations, and publication patterns of saffron related articles to ascertain the research inclinations. The highly cited articles and author keyword analysis showed that the chemical and biochemical qualities of saffron were of key interest for the researchers.

Developing And Integration Of An Online Thesaurus: With Special Reference To Lgbtqia Related Terms, Sayani Mukherjee

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Assessing The Integration Of Ict Resources In Teaching And Learning In Selected Senior Secondary Schools In Cape Coast Metropolis, Kwaku Anhwere Barfi Mr., Alexander Amenu Mr, Valentina Arkorful Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Despite the effort Government and other stakeholders are making to support Ghanaian senior high schools in information and communication technology (ICT), most of the schools are teaching ICT as an isolated subject rather than integrating the ICT resources into the educational curriculum to improve teaching and learning. The objective of the study was to assess the integration of ICT resources in teaching and learning in senior secondary schools in the Cape Coast metropolis. A total of 270 respondents took part in the survey. Five senior secondary schools were selected. This comprised of teachers and students. Random sampling was used to …

Measuring Research Performance Of The Oldest Medical School Of Pakistan, Shakil Ahmad

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This study evaluates the research performance of King Edward Medical University, the oldest school of medical education in Pakistan. Bibliometric indicators are used to assess the research output. A comparison is made with peer universities running under the same government to know King Edward Medical University’s research standing at provincial and country level. The study observes the citation patterns of research publications. The study revealed that researchers in KEMU collaborate with local and international institutes. The highest collaboration is seen with the researchers in Mayo Hospital, Lahore. International research collaboration spans over seventy countries. Trend of publishing in open access …

Weather Information Needs Of Displaced Artisanal Fishermen In Bakassi Pennisula Nigeria, Friday O. Idiku, Kalu Iroha Ogbonna, Patrick Ogar Ogar, Goodness Mosiokpahe David

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Abstract

Information on weather forecast is necessary to guide fishermen on their fishing adventure. The purpose of this study was assessed the weather information needs of displaced fishermen in Bakassi Pennisula, Nigeria. This study was conducted in Bakassi which is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea that lies between latitudes 4°25′ and 5°10′N and longitudes 8°20′ and 9°08′E. It has an area of 665 km² (257 sq mi) with displaced Fishermen settling in the area who were the main respondents. It was a descriptive study. One hundred and five (105) displaced fishermen were randomly selected as respondents using snowball …

Information Literacy Among Students Of The University Of Ghana Business School And Ghana Institute Of Management And Public Administration Business School, Prosper Kwame Amegashie, Samuel Ankamah

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The acquisition of information literacy skills empowers students to understand the content, extend their research and assume greater control over their learning. The purpose of the study is to assess information literacy skills of levels 300 and 400 students of the University of Ghana Business School, Legon and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration Business School, Achimota. From a population of 2,579 respondents (students), a sample size of 202 that is, 86 UGBS and 116 GIMPABS were selected for the study. The questionnaire was used to gathered and analysed data. The findings of this study show that students agreed …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Bearing Fault Detection Using Artificial Intelligence, Pooja Kamat, Rekha Sugandhi Dr.

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The new industrial revolution called Industry 4.0 is proliferating at its peak. The time is no longer away when the human race is going to witness a huge paradigm shift. Intelligent machines empowered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)will take over the presence of human workers in the industrial manufacturing sector with the target of achieving 100% automation. With the emergence of cut-throat price competition in the product market, it has become equally important to manufacture goods at minimal costs and with the highest quality. Predicting the decrease in machinery efficiency at an earlier stage to accomplish this objective helps to reduce …

An Assessment Of Open Educational Resources By Students In Selected Academic Institutions In Southwest, Nigeria, Njeze Miracle

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This paper examined assessment of Open Educational Resources (OER) by students in selected Academic Institutions in Southwest Nigeria. A descriptive research design was used for this study and the instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. The population of this study comprised two hundred and fifty two respondents from selected academic institutions and a stratified sampling technique was used to select respondents from each of the nine institutions investigated. This study assessed the use of Open Educational Resources by students in nine academic institutions in Nigeria which comprised (Federal, State and Private Universities; Polytechnics; and Colleges of Education) in …

Trends Of Publications In Peshawar Islamicus Research Journal: A Bibliometric Study From 2010- 2020, Mohammad Hussain, Ms. Saddiqa

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This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of “Peshawar Islamicus” a research journal published by the Department of Islamiyat, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. The analysis covers authorship pattern, gender-wise distribution, number of articles, paper length, most prolific authors, number of references and department wise distribution etc. The data was collected from different issues of the journal which was analyzed by using MS Access and MS Excel 2016. The study found that 290 articles were published from 2010 to 2020 and highest numbers of articles (34) were published in 2019. The trend of male and two author was dominant, the volume of …

Employing Bibliometric Analysis On Research Published In Pakistan Journal Of Medical And Health Sciences From 2019 – 2009., Zameer Hussain Baladi, Abdullah Alabdali

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Introduction: Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences is peer review and indexed in the Scopus-Elsevier database. This study signifies the participation of (PJMHS) in the research productivity, published from 2019 - 2009.

Material and Methods: The records of the published data retrieved from PJMHS website and Scopus-Elsevier database for tabulation in MS Office Excel Sheet. Frequency of publications, type of documents, usage of pages, citations, and association of the first author with their countries.

Results: Total 3817 documents written by 15401 (4%) authors in seven categories published in 43 issues. An average of (2.8%) pages consumed …

Marketing Features On University Library Websites In Pakistan, Shkeel Ahmad Babar, Muhammad Ijaz Mairaj, Muhammad Tufail Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purposes of the study are to identify marketing key features through content analysis of university library websites in Pakistan. Also compare the public and private sectors university library websites in terms of marketing activities. Similarly, expose marketing key features that lacks in public and private sector university library websites. Based on the adopted criteria, a checklist of marketing features was designed. A purposive sample of 53 main (Central) libraries websites of public and private sector universities having at least one marketing feature was selected for detailed analysis. The study reveals that the overall situation of university library websites in …

20 Years Of Dentistry Research At World Perspectives: A Scientometric Study, Mohammad Amees, Saddam Hosaain, Sadik M. Batcha

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Dentistry is a branch of medicine that is involved in the study of diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases disorders and conditions of the oral function. The study rummages world performances based on its publication output in Dentistry during 1999-2018 (20 years) based on several parameters including a whole country of world’s annual average growth rate of publications share and rank Relative Growth Rate (RGR). The study was carried out from Web of Science on Dentistry research at Global perspective. The maximum records published 1536 with 9.62% in 2018 out of 15970 on Dentistry research, whereas the year 1999 is …

Awareness Of Plagiarism Among Research Scholars Of Karnatak University, Dharwad: A Study, Savitha K S, Krishnamurthy C Dr.

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Plagiarism is a subject of academic misconduct among teaching and research community in higher educational institutions. Information and communication technology has immensely made easy to access information in digital form or electronic form that can lead to copying words/text from any kind of information sources such as Internet, books, magazines, journals, project reports, publications, white papers etc, without acknowledging the original author/ authors with proper citation. Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else's work and attempting to pass it off as one’s own. In the global academic scenario plagiarism occurs due to lack of knowledge or due to ignorance. …

Growth And Productivity Of Agricultural And Biological Sciences Research In State Agriculture Universities Of Gujarat (India), Jignesh Amin, Yogesh Parekh

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This paper presents a scientometric analysis of growth and productivity of agricultural and biological sciences research in state agriculture universities of Gujarat, India. The publications, which have been published during 2010-2019, are considered for the present research. The required data was extracted from the indexing database SCOPUS for the analysis, which includes 1,742 publications. Necessary metric-based indicators are considered to draw the conclusion about the growth and status of research outputs of selected samples. Several aspects like patterns and trends about authorship and publications, are also discussed. These include a ranking of authors based on a number of publications and …

Bibliometric Estimation Of Research Productivity, Published In The European Journal Of International Law From 2006 – 2019, Zameer Hussain Baladi, Sardar Ali Shah, Taimoor Ali

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Introduction of study: This study portrays the European Journal of International Law's published data from 2006 - 2019, indexed in the Scopus-Elsevier database.

Methodology: The retrieved data tabulated in MS Office Excel Sheet. The author's role and collaboration, type of documents, and association of the first author with the country aimed to explore the issue and year wise frequency of publications.

Results: Total 739 documents published and distributed in seven categories original articles 582; 78.7%, followed by 59; 8% review articles and 56; 7.5% editorials got the top slot in the publications. Single or solo authors wrote …

A Brief Bibliometric Survey Of Leukemia Detection By Machine Learning And Deep Learning Approaches, Nilkanth Mukund Deshpande, Shilpa Shailesh Gite, Rajanikanth Aluvalu

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Background: This study aims to analyze the work done on leukemia detection and diagnosis using machine learning, deep learning and different image processing techniques from 2011 to 2020, using the bibliometric methods.

Methods: different articles on leukemia detection were retrieved using one of the most popular database- Scopus. The research articles are considered between 2011 to 2020. Scopus analyzer is used for getting some analysis results such as documents by year, source, county and so on. VOSviewer Version 1.6.15 is used for the analysis of different units such as co-authorship, co-occurrences, citation analysis etc.

Results: In our study, a database …

Bibliometric Review Of Noc Router Optimization, Priti Shahane, Jayshree Pande

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Network on chip (NoC) has been proposed as an emerging solution for scalability and performance demands of next generation System on Chip (SoC). NoC provides a solution for the bus based interconnection issue of SoC, where large numbers of Intellectual Property modules (IP) are integrated on a single chip for better performance. The NoC has several advantages such as scalability, low latency and low power consumption, high bandwidth over dedicated wires and buses. Interconnections between multiple chip cores have a significant impact on the communication and performance of the chip design in terms of region, latency, throughput and power. In …

Collection Development For Graphic Novels In Academic Libraries: Results Of A National Survey, Stephen Finlay

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A survey on collection development for graphic novels was sent to 632 collection development librarians and also placed on the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services listserv. Once 200 responses had been received analysis of results began. Findings indicate that while all libraries reported possessing at least some graphic novels and most reported having what they would call a “graphic novel collection,” the medium is still quite uncommon when compared to existing library collections, comprising less than 1% of all books in academic libraries. Further, while it was found that most libraries are currently collecting graphic novels, collection development …

Emergency Management In Higher Education During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenology Inquiry Comparing A Developed And Developing Country, Saira Hanif Soroya, Mohsin Abdur Rehman, Zuhair Abbas, Farhan Mirza, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Aboidullah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Growth Of Open Access Law Research Articles Seen Through Doaj: A Bibliometric Analysis, Archana Sahu, Puspanjali Jena Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study provides a bibliometric analysis of law literature published from 2015-2019. A total of 3001 articles were retrieved from DOAJ database for the study. The law literature has been further divided into two categories, i.e. Public law and Private law. This paper focuses on the journal-wise distribution of publications, subject-wise distribution of publications, annual growth rate as well as compound annual growth rate, relative growth rate (RGR) and doubling time (DT) of open access law literature. Various statistical tests and methods such as Student’s t test, Chi-square test and correlation studies have been applied to verify the significance difference …

Perceptions Of Buddhist Monks Towards Monastic Library: A Case Study Of Dali Monastery, Darjeeling, Prabin Karkee

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This paper examined the Buddhist monks’ attitudes toward monastic library and their reading preferences. These monks are attached with the Dali Monastery of Darjeeling. 62 residential and trainee monks participated in the survey. All the monks are male. Survey method has been adopted for the present study. A structured questionnaire was prepared and circulated among the monks. 80 questionnaires were distributed and among them 62 filled-in questionnaires were received with response rate of 77.5%. The researcher personally visited the monastery to collect data and get a chance to talk with the monks and closely observe the resources and facilities. Hence …