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Linking Students Anxiety And Their Academic Achievements In The Subject Of Statistics At Ms-Library And Information Sciences Level In Pakistan, Saeed Ullah Jan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Anxiety plays a very dynamic role in the academic performance of the students. A normal level of anxiety is beneficial for students. It motivates students for study and hard work that results into a prosperous future, but high level of anxiety badly affects the students learning process. This study explains the students’ anxiety and academic achievements of the MS-Library and Information Science students of Sarhad University of Science and IT, Pakistan. Survey based quantitative approach was applied for data acquisition. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. Lack of motivation from teachers, class tests, and assignments were regarded as …

Bibliometric Review Of Mppt Algorithms For Wind Energy Conversion Systems, Jayshree Ashok Pande, Paresh Nasikkar

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The existing conventional fuels are going up in prices and going down in availability. This has boosted the demand for renewable resources like wind energy. Wind energy being abundantly available is becoming very popular as it is a freely available pollution-free green energy. Some technical aspects like the tracking of maximum power from the wind energy conversion systems have a very high impact on the efficiency of the wind energy conversion systems. Several algorithms have been implemented for tracking the maximum power point of the wind energy conversion systems. The main objective of this paper is to study the extent …

Mimo Antenna For Fifth Generation Mm-Wave Applications: A Bibliometric Survey, Rajeshwari R. Malekar, Laxmikant K. Shevada, Hema D. Raut, Amruta S. Dixit, Sumit Kumar

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Nowadays most discussed technology is mm-wave and 5G communication. The requirement of 5G technology is high bandwidth, high data rate, and low latency. To fulfil these requirements for the current growth in mobile communication multiple input multiple output antenna is used. This bibliometric paper throws light on the various methods used to improve mutual coupling between multiple antennas. Various mutual coupling reduction techniques that are used in MIMO antennas like Dielectric resonator antenna, Electromagnetic Bandgap Structure, Neutralization lines, Defected Ground Structures, Metamaterial, etc. are explained. Scopus database is used for this bibliometric review on mm-wave MIMO 5G technology from the …

Interacting With Digital Contents: Understanding The On-Screen Reading Behavior Of Young Adults, Saira Hanif Soroya, Kanwal Ameen

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In Pakistan, the use of electronic gadgets like Ipad, smartphones, laptops, etc. is on the rise. With the exponential growth and availability of digital reading contents, it is also a matter of concern that how readers interact with digital contents? And whether they are aware of features associated with electronic reading devices? The current study aims to examine the level of students’ digital information literacy skills and to understand the status of their interaction with digital contents. A survey was conducted using a questionnaire as a data collection tool. The data were collected from the students of the Higher Education …

An Analytical Study Of Lis Topics Covered On Wikipedia, Medha Rajesh Mangurkar Mrs., Dinesh B. Khandvi Mr

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One of the objectives of UGC is to conduct efficient, transparent standard tests to evaluate the ability of the candidate for the purpose of admission and recruitment. UGC conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) to determine eligibility for lectureship and for award of Junior Research fellowship (JRF) in Social Sciences, Humanities, Forensic Science, Environmental, Computer Science and Electronic Science.

Wikipedia is a website developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing them to change or add study material on it. The purpose of the study is to examine the extent to which the syllabus of Library and Information Science subject of …

Knowledge Sharing Of E-Resources Among Academic Staff College Of Central University Pondicherry., Shanmugam Ap, Balasubramanian P

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Knowledge is today viewed as a factor of production together with land, labour and capital It is of one of the innate inheritances endowed in every normal human being. Specifically, every individual has some level of knowledge. Knowledge sharing has multidimensional effects on a higher educational institution, such as improving work performance, among which creativity is one of the most important parts. This study aims to examine the effects of e-resource knowledge sharing among the members of academic staff college, Pondicherry central university Pondicherry. This study is the first research regarding the relationship between knowledge sharing and individual creativity, and …

Managing Disaster In Select Institutional Libraries In Delhi, Vikas Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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The present paper seeks to contribute some insights into the different potential disasters that libraries are vulnerable to. The study is primarily built upon a comprehensive review of the literature. Further, the study is divided into two parts; first part, covers different disasters, policies, insurance, and role of the government in managing such disasters. The second part of the study throw light on the level of preparedness for mitigating different disasters, frequency of inspection of the equipment’s, safety guidelines and so on, to lessen the impact of disasters, basic strategies to protect any disaster in the library, frequency of …

Research Productivity And Collaboration Pattern Of National Institute Of Science Education And Research (Niser), Bhubaneswar During 2008-2019: A Scientometrics Study, Bijayananda Pradhan, Sidhartha Sahoo, Pritam Kumar Pati, Shriram Pandey

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This paper aims to evaluate the quantitative growth and development of research productivity of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar in terms of publications as reflected in Scopus database. This study analyzed annual growth of publications, most preferred journals, open access publishing journals, Subject wise distribution of papers, top cited papers during the year 2008-2019. The study also analyzes country, organization collaboration and funding bodies in National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar. The study assesses the intellectual output of the researchers produce by NISER and the findings of the study will be a matter of …

Research Productivity Of Lis Women Of Pakistan To The Library Philosophy And Practice: A Bibliometric Study From 2008 To 2020, Anwar Muhammad, Tang Zhiwei Dr

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The present research purpose is to investigate the LIS women of Pakistan to the LPP from 2008 to 2020. The quantitative research design and survey method have been used to retrieve data from the website of LPP with the full-text articles. The collected data has been analyzed using quantification tools. The parameters were set for this study is the frequency of publication growth, author’s collaborations, degree of author collaboration, papers length, and most productive regions, most productive authors, as well as references, were used in the contribution of Pakistani LIS women. The data revealed 83 research articles were retrieved from …

Research Performance Of Engineering Colleges In Karnataka As Reflected In The Scopus Database, Gangadhar K C Dr., Nagaraja A Dr.

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This paper intends to assess the growth of research publications and citations of engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi based on Scopus database. It is attempted to analyze parameters like the growth of research output among rural and city colleges i.e. geographical distribution of publications, pattern of research communication, share of national and international collaboration across Karnataka and high productivity institutions and top highly published journals and cited papers.

Information Needs And Use Of Non-Academic Staff In University Of Africa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Kolawole Ogunbodede, Smart E. Ambrose Mr.

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The paper examined the information needs and use of non-academic staff in University of Africa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The researchers adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised of 100 non-academic staff out of which 57 were randomly selected. Four (4) research questions guided this study. Data was collected using the questionnaire. Data was analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency count and simple percentage. The findings revealed that non-academic staff had diverse information needs based on their work roles and they consult multiple information sources to meet their information needs. Regarding the purpose for using information, it …

A Bibliometric Survey On Ultra Wideband Multiple Input Multiple Output Antenna With Improved Isolation, Laxmikant K. Shevada, Hema D. Raut, Rajeshwari R. Malekar, Amruta S. Dixit, Sumit Kumar

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Ultra wideband (UWB) technology remains a viable choice for very high speed data communication in future applications involving large bandwidth. For boosting the data communication efficiency and to mitigate the multipath fading issue faced by UWB system with existing narrowband systems, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system is used along with UWB. Mutual coupling which must be smaller in value plays a vital role in deciding the efficiency of MIMO antenna and hence it becomes as important aspect. The mutual coupling reduction techniques of various UWB MIMO antennas are surveyed in this bibliometric paper. The bibliometric survey aims to …

Impact Of Study Anxiety Sources On The Grade Achievements Of University Students, Muhammad Shahzad Shahzad Chaudhry Dr., Ayman Akbar Joya Ms.

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Anxiety is a common phenomenon among all kind of learners and university students. Study anxiety has been recognized by students of all educational institutes as they face new atmosphere and people in the campus. The objective of this study is to recognize the sources of study anxiety and then determine the impact of these sources on the grade achievements among university students. The results showed that exam anxiety, subject anxiety, language anxiety, library anxiety, social anxiety and presentation anxiety are sources of study anxiety. All of the sources have a great impact on grade achievements except presentation anxiety. The results …

Text Mining: Research Trend Analysis, Forecast And Citation Approach, Amit Kumar Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Text Mining (TM) is one of the immerging areas of research, but there are limited studies from the view point of scientometric. Using the bibliometric approach, this paper analyses TM research trend, forecast and citation approach from 2000 to 2019 by locating headings “text mining”, “text clustering”, “text extraction” and “text categorization” in Web of Science database. The paper classified 5006 retrieved articles, using the following ten categories – publication year, citation, country, institution, type of document, language, subject, author, source title and key-word – for distribution status of different areas, in order to explore the trend of researches in …

A Bibliographic Survey On Detection Of Covid-19 Patients Using Various Sensors In The Field Of Iot, Rutuja Patil, Akshay Sharma, Divya Bhatia, Mugdha Kulkarni, Yashika Patl

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Due to a pandemic situation arising from the past few decades and the covid -19 patients are increasing at the rapid rate. Looking in the near future an IOT model is build which can be useful for people in coming years and allows rapid testing and efficient testing methodologies using various sensors such as Temperature, Respiration, RFID etc which takes various parameters. The study focuses around 412 scientific documents such as Journals, articles, book chapters and Patents in various papers. These documents are extracted from the scopus databases after querying with the keywords related to covid patients and IOT. The …

Research Productivity Of Library Philosophy And Practice During The Period Of Covid 19, Anwar Muhammad, Tang Zhiwei Dr

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The present research purpose is to investigate the publishing trends of LPP during the COVID-19 from 2020 to 2021. The quantitative research design and survey method have been used to retrieve data from the website of LPP with full-text article. The collected data has been analyzed using quantification tools. The parameters were set for this study is the frequency of publication growth, author’s collaborations, degree of author collaboration, papers length, and most productive regions. The data revealed 860 research papers were collected during the COVID-19 era. Where 844 papers were published in 2020 and 16 were published in 2021 as …

Interactive Information Retrieval: An Overview, Chetan Sudhakar Sonawane, Anant Madhav Kulkarni, Dr. P. Muthumari.

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Information Retrieval (IR) is deal as the interface between the information handler and the framework and the query thus formulated is matched against a keyword indexed in the system whereas in Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is involved. Although, Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) is a multidisciplinary field its broad subject is Computer science. Algorithmic kind of IR is still prevalent in Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR), information seeking and information behavior.

Research Output Of Dibrugarh University: A Scientometric Analysis Based On Scopus Database, Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain

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Scopus is the largest bibliographic (abstract and citation) database of peer-reviewed literature launched in 2004 by Elsevier. In this study the research output of Dibrugarh University, a pioneer institute of higher education in North-East India is analysed based on data collected from Scopus database for thirty years i.e., from 1982 to 2020. A total of 1642 documents with the affiliation ID of Dibrugarh University. This study endeavours to visualize year wise distribution of publication and find out Annual Growth Rate (AGR), the most prolific author on the basis of H-index and number of publications, the top collaborating nations and affiliations …

Solar Photovoltaic Performance Monitoring: A Bibliometric Review, Research Gaps And Opportunities, Javed Sayyad, Paresh Nasikkar

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Electrical power generation has been revolutionized by growing demand and use of Renewable Energy (RE) sources such as Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) as the main electricity source in modern times. The main objective of this bibliometric analysis is to understand the scope of the literature available for SPV performance characterization. This detailed reviewed was performed on the documents related to SPV research considering all the subject categories from Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases. The patterns for the particular set of keywords were broke down with the recuperated outcomes from Scopus database in the language, publication type, year of publication, …

Users’ Satisfaction Of Online Resources And Services In The Engineering College In Libraries In Mysore City : A Study, Chandrashakara J

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research examines the factors influencing the Users’ Satisfaction with the Online Resources an Engineering College in Libraries in Mysore city. The level of users' satisfaction about library online resources facilities and services. A well structured questionnaire was administered to Mysore city engineering college and collect the data regarding the Users’ Satisfaction with the Online Resources an Engineering College in Mysore city. The survey reveals that the library services in the Mysore city engineering college for their users. Libraries users were also effective with the existing online resources. These resources found to be more then 50% satisfied about the E-Journals, …

Measuring And Assessing Research Productivity Of Physics Scientist Dr R. G. Sonkawade, Mallikarjun Kappi, Balabhim Sankrappa Biradar Professor, Chaman Sab M Dr

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Dr R. G. Sonkawade is an Indian professor, Department of Physics Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Advisor cum OSD to Minister, Higher and Technical Education, Govt. of Maharashtra. Former dean, Medical Physicist and Scientist, the authors studied characteristic features, pattern and citation impact of the well-known Indian scientist and professor’s scientific research works. At his 20 years of research publishing career, He had 191 publications during 1998 – 2019 in various domains and present study was analysed 90 research publications based on SCOPUS database. The study categorizes and presents the data according to year-wise contribution, authorship pattern, collaborators & degree of …

A Bibliometric Study On Open Access Library And Information Science Journals In Doaj, Selvam M, Amudha G

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Open Access is a form of practice through which academic publications are shared publicly online. Open Access enables Books, Journals, Research articles, Thesis and all other educational resources that shared online with peer reviewed or set of quality metrics. Open Access Journals provide an unlimited access of scholarly published articles to the user. It also facilitates the users to enrich their knowledge on various disciplines with no cost. Open Access Journals promotes unbiased information dissemination and maintains high transparency in publishing contents with international standards. The aim of the present study is to analyze the open access Library and Information …

Investigating The Information Seeking Behaviour Of Academic Lawyers Of Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra (Haryana) And Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa (Haryana): A Comparative, Ravinder Kumar Dr., Anil Kumar Dr.

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This comparative study investigated the information seeking behavior of academic lawyers of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa. The aim of the study was to determine the law students and faculty member’s academic information needs and information seeking behavior and to find out the utility of e-resources and legal databases. Further the aim of the study was also to identify the problems faced by the academic lawyers in the process of information seeking and suggest different approaches and strategies to overcome the hurdles in the way of information seeking behavior. A questionnaire was the basic method to …

Published Research Documents In Nuclear And High Energy Physics From 1996-2019: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Leading Countries In Comparison With India, Ishwar Dutt Sharma Dr

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A bibliometric analysis of scientific research production of the top five most productive countries in comparison with India in nuclear and high energy physics is presented during the period 1996-2019 using Scopus-linked SCImago electronic database. To validate the present study, some selected bibliometric indicators such as published documents, their citations and citations per document has been studied. In total, 769180 research documents were published worldwide in journal, conference proceedings and in book series. United States (16.47%), Germany(8.64%), Japan (6.65%), China (6.41%) and Russian Federation (5.89%) were the top most productive countries rankwise, whereas India ranked 10^th with 21157 research …

Comparing The Use Of Electronic Information Resources By Lecturers In Babcock University And Tai Solarin University Of Education In Ogun State, Nigeria., Obinna Nwokike, Temitope Osisianwo

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There is no doubt that the utilization of electronic information resources has proven to be a more reliable means of meeting information needs of various lecturers and students in Nigerian universities. This study compared the utilization of electronic information resources in Babcock University and Tai Solarin University of Education in Ogun state. A cross sectional survey was carried out on a sample of 264 lecturers using a questionnaire. The study found that there was a significant difference in the utilization of electronic information resources by lecturers in Babcock University and Tai Solarin University of Education. The utilization of search engines …

A Scientometric Study On The Metrics Of Computer Society Transactions On Ieee, Manase Prabu, Senthil Kumar R

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This paper presents a Scientometric Study on “Metrics of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE” for the study period 2007-2016 (Ten Years). The following areas such as the year-wise distribution of contribution, impact factor of the journals, year of inception of the journals, periodicity of the journals, citation analysis, collaboration of countries for research, funding agencies, the collaboration of organizations by country wise and area of research concentration have been analyzed. 30 journals have been identified for the study of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE. These journals have been identified based on various quality parameters such as impact factor, citations, …

An Assessment Of Research Trends On Fiscal Policy, Shabir Hussain Khahro, Shoail Farooq, Tauha Hussain Ali Dr, Nafees Ahmed Memon Dr, Qasim Hussain Khahro

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Fiscal policy has been a topic of research interest for researchers. It plays a very important role in the economic growth of any country. Fiscal policy does not only achieve economic development, but eliminates the hindrances that assist economic stability. Based on the significance of the term. This paper evaluates the research output of the term fiscal policy since 1970 in different fields using the Scopus database. The data was collected from the Scopus database and were analyzed using Microsoft Excel to analyze the research trends on fiscal policy. It is concluded that fiscal policy has been a topic of …

Highly Cited Articles Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology Indexed In Google Scholar:An Informetric Analysis, Renjith V R, Mini Devi B

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The impact of scientific articles in respective subject fields are reflected by its citation counts in citation databases. Google Scholar (GS), a freely accessible database of scholarly papers along with their citations data, has an extensive coverage of Library and Information Science (LIS) literature. It is the only availableglobal database for the citation analysis of Indian LIS journals.The purpose of this study is an attempt to analyzethe publication age, citation density, most prolific authors and most occurred terms in the titles of highly cited articles of the journal“DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT)”based on Google Scholar data.Harzing’s Publish …

Scholarly Communications In Knowledge Economy By A Premier Indian Chemical Sciences R&D Laboratory - Csir-Ncl : A Scientometric Evaluation, Gati Krushna Nayak, Sudam Charan Sahu, Vaishali S. Khaparde, Sudeshna Tripathi

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This paper made an attempt to analyze publications of CSIR-NCL, Pune a reputed world class 70 years renowned Chemistry & Chemical Engineering R&D Laboratory during the last 10 years w.e.f. 2010-2019 as reflected in SCOPUS multidisciplinary international database. The total number of 5372 research publications have been downloaded and analyzed according to the objectives. This paper gives a complete view of the evaluation of research outcomes of the CSIR-NCL, Pune the productive and influential in innovative research. This paper vigorously tries to give a complete view of the evaluation of research outcomes of the CSIR-NCL, Pune in India that ought …

Social Inclusion-Based Library Transformation: A National Library Of Indonesia’S Role To Support Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs), Reza Mahdi, Muakibatul Hasanah, Andi Asari

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Since 2015, all countries that are members of the United Nations have participated in one of the programs to support human and environmental benefit, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indonesia as a member of the United Nations supports the course of the program with the release of Presidential Regulation No. 59 year 2017 in which all institutions and ministers follow tpb in accordance with their respective basic duties. The National Library of Indonesia is one of the institutions affected by the regulation. As a building library and network between libraries in accordance with Law No. 43 year 2007 on Libraries, Perpusnas …