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Bibliometric Analysis Of Chemistry Nobel Laureate George Pearson Smith, Abhay Maurya

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The scientometric analysis of Nobel Laureate George P. Smith, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2018, reveals that the author has published 55 papers in various fields between 1971 and 2019. The subjects included 26 articles in Biomolecular Interactions, 17 papers in Genomics, 10 in Protein, and 2 in Evolutionary Biology. The forms of publications included 45 article papers, 1 book chapter, 2 editorials, 6 reviews, and 1 short survey. 17 of his publications were single-authored, 18 two authored, 9 three and four authored, and 1 five and six authored. The highest no papers were published …

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

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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 …

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 …

A Citation Analysis Of Chemistry Publications By Faculty Members And Research Scholars At University Of Mysore And Karnatak University, Kodandarama ., Chandrashekara M

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Purpose-The study aims to analyse the resources used in the citations of 1355 research publications of University of Mysore and Karnatak University in the field of chemistry and prepares the core journal list and prolific authors. For any research and academic institutional libraries, books and journals are considered as key resources. As the resources are more and diverse, collection building is a tough task for librarians. Citation analysis is one of the best methods to list the most used resources by the users. Hence, the paper highlights the extent of use of different sources in the research publications of chemistry. …

Factors Affecting Computer Science Research Productivity And Impact In Nigeria: A Bibliometric Evidence, Azubuike Ezenwoke

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Computer science is a burgeoning research field and has the potential to accelerate the rate of industrialisation and subsequently, economic development. Using bibliometric data obtained from Scopus, this study employed a 15-year bibliometric analysis to highlight Nigeria’s productivity and impact trends in the computer science research landscape. Our findings are summarised as follows: First, Nigeria’s computer science research contribution and citations are meager in comparison to the global output. Secondly, international collaboration is generally weak as most collaborations are national in scope. Third, Nigeria’s computer science-related research is published in low-quality outlets, as Scopus has discontinued the indexing of most …

Software Development With Scrum: A Bibliometric Analysis And Profile, Peter Kokol, Sašo Zagoranski, Marko Kokol

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Introduction of the Scrum approach into software engineering has changed the way software is being developed. The Scrum approach emphasizes the active end-user involvement, embracing of change, and /iterative delivery of products. Our study showed that Scrum has different variants or is used in combination with different methods. Some tools not normally used in the conventional software approaches, like gamification, content analysis and grounded theory are also employed. However, Scrum like other software development approach focuses on improvement of software process, software quality, business value, performance, usability and efficiency and at the same time to reduce cost, risk and uncertainty. …

Bibliometric Analysis Of The Littcrit – An Indian Response To Literature, K G Sudhier Dr., Dhanooja M N

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This paper presents a bibliometric study of the LITTCRIT – An Indian Response to Literature journal for the period from 2011 to 2015 (five years). The purpose of the study is to give a gist of research output in the journal and the content of the coverage in it. The study showed that, out of the 263 published documents, the highest percentage was articles (83.65%). Among the 220 contributors, 56.64% were females and the remaining 102 males (46.36%). The study identified that most of the articles were single authored (94.55%) and the rest by joint authors (6.43%). The degree of …

Research Productivity Of Guru Jambeshwar University Of Science & Technology, Hisar During 2010-2019, Seema Parmar, Rajinder Kumar

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The study presents the research productivity of academic community of GJUS&T, Hisar during a decade 2010-19. The study shows that a total of 1916 papers were produced by university during the period, which received 18056 citations with ACPP of 9.42, maximum publications appeared in articles (79.65%) and highly productive year was 2019 with 14.67% publications. The most preferred source for publications was ‘AIP conference proceeding’ with 24.12% of papers, top collaborating country was South Korea with 49 papers (33.56%). Nearly half of the publication (47.65%) received up to 10 citations.

Journal Of The Association For Information Science And Technology (Jasist): Bibliometric Analysis From 2014-2019, Ikram Ul Haq, Mumtaz Hussain Satti, Zia Ahmed, Fouzia Yasmin

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The parent study was conducted with an aim to determine the various bibliometric characteristics of the documents published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) for 2014 to 2019. A retrospective study method was used and the data of JASIST were retrieved from Web of Science – Clarivate Analytics database. A total of 1,196 documents were found, contributed by the authors of 62 countries with average of 199 documents per annum. These documents received 11,941 citations with an average of 9.98 citations per documents. More than half of research were contributed by two countries, and amongst …

Coronavirus Research Output During 2001-2020: A Scientometrics Analysis, Lambodara Parabhoi, Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma

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COVID-19 virus originated from Wuhan city of China in December 2019. The emergence of COVID-19 the whole world and severely affected by The United States, China, Brazil, and India etc.. World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a pandemic in March 2020. Due to COVID-19, a large number of literature published in early 2020. However, very few studies address the impact of published related to literature Coronavirus. In response to the current study conducted and reviewed 20 years' period from 2001- May 2020. A total of 14439 documents were found in the Scopus database, which was published during the study …

Halal Value Chain: A Bibliometric Review Using R, Muhammad Syafii Antonio, Aam Rusydiana, Nisful Laila, Yayat Rahmat Hidayat, Lina Marlina

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This study aims to determine the development and trend map of Halal Value Chain (HVC) outbreak research that is published by a reputable journal in the theme of Islamic economics and finance. The data analyzed were more than 163 publications of indexed research publications. The export data is then processed and analyzed using the R Biblioshiny application program to find out the bibliometric map of the development of the role of Islamic economics and finance in the Halal Value Chain. The results showed that the number of publications on the development of the role of Islamic economics and finance …

Research Output On Corona Virus (Covid-19) /Hantavirus In India:A Scientometric Study, Senthamilselvi .. A. Asst.Professor, Surulinathi .. M Asst.Professor, Karthik .. M Research Scholar, Jeyasuriya .. T Student

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This paper attempts to highlight the publication status and growth of Hantavirus/Coronavirus research in India and make quantitative and qualitative assessment by way of analysing various features of research output based on Scopus online database during the period 1975-2020. A total of 3498 publications were published and overall H-Index is 50. The publications peaked in the year 2020 with 3218 publications and most frequently cited one is “Rodriguez-Morales, A.J., Cardona-Ospina, J.A., Gutiérrez-Ocampo, E., Ahmad, T., Sah, R.. (2020) Clinical, laboratory and imaging features of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Travel Medicine and …

Scientometric Study Of Nuclear Science And Technology Research In India And China Based On Web Of Science (2000-2019), Subhodip Bid, Sukumar Mandal

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The present study attempt to compare the research output in terms of publications between two Asian giants India and china in nuclear science and technology for the period 2000 to 2019 as indexed in web of Science database under different parameters like publications size, mode of communication, research wise distribution, authorship pattern and collaboration pattern, citation pattern. The study reveals that India published 8637 research papers while China published 16879 papers which is almost twice of India’s publication. India leads China in terms of average citation per paper. China shows tremendous growth after 2012. In terms of collaboration, Germany is …

Global Research Output On ‘Coronavirus Disease-2019’ (Covid-19), Seema Parmar, Suman Ghalawat, Ashwani Kumar

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Purpose: The present study reflects the trend and growth of publications on COVID-19 viral disease spreading around the world. With the emergence of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China in December 2019, scholars started publishing their researches in form of different kind of publications.

Methodology: The data has been extracted from the Scopus database using key TERMS Covid-19 and corona virus 2019.

Findings: During six month period around ten thousand publications are contributed by scientists around the globe. The literature produced in different fields but highest output is made in the field of Medicine. BMJ and Journal of Medical Virology journals …

Covid-19: Mapping The Peer-Reviewed Research, Shakil Ahmed, Asif Altaf, Arslan Shahid

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Novel coronavirus is a new addition in the family of coronaviruses and was first reported in December 2019 in China. SARS and MERS were the earlier forms of viruses in this family of viruses. The outbreak was considered a pandemic in March 2020 by WHO. The pandemic moved the health sciences researchers around the world to study various aspects of widespread disease. To know the volume and hotspots of COVID-19 research this study is prepared using the bibliometric method of research evaluation. Scopus and Web of Science; two most widely used indexing databases are used to retrieve the already published …

Citation Analysis Of Theses And Dissertations In Chemistry Submitted To The Central Library, Dibrugarh University, Assam, 2015-19, Prarthana Borthakur

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The process by which the impact or quality of an article is assessed by counting the number of times other works mention it in their work can be defined as citation analysis. It involves counting the number of times an article is cited by other works to measure the impact of a publication or an author. The technique of citation analysis is effective and easier among all other technique of Bibliometrics to know the trend of research in a particular field, to know the preference of scholars for various forms of information resources. The present study is conducted in order …

Informetric Analysis Of Articles Published In Nigerian Libraries: Journal Of The Nigerian Library Association (2009 – 2018), Blessing Amusan, Samuel Olu Adeyoyin

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This informetric study was aimed at finding out the distribution of articles and authors that published in the Nigerian Libraries: Journal of the Nigerian Library Association from 2009 to 2018. Also, the year-wise growth of of research articles; auhorship pattern; and collaboration ratio; subject distribution of articles and institutional affiliation of authors were examined. The journal was selected based on it's consistency and popularity. Data collected through a self-designed checklist was analysed using frequency count and percentage. The findings revealed that 134 articles, contributed by 252 authors were published in Nigerian Libraries from 2009-2018. An annual average growth of 31.56% …

Informetrics Education In Library And Information Science (Lis) Academic Department In South Africa, Nkosingiphile Zungu

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The purpose of this paper is to explore literature on informetrics education globally, in order to determine the relevance of informetrics education in South Africa. This paper is based on the literature review on informetrics education in the field of LIS worldwide. The paper addresses the status of informetrics education; extent and levels at which informetrics education is offered; teaching methods for informetrics education; and, challenges associated with informetrics education. The literature reveals that there are 32 countries that offer informetrics education within the field of LIS worldwide. The informetrics education is commonly offered to both under-graduate and post-graduate students. …

Bio-Bibliometric Study Of Prof. P Balaram Contributions In The Field Of Bio-Organic Chemistry And Molecular Biophysics, Madhu S, Kannappanavar B. U

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The present study uses Bio-Bibliometrics to examine the contributions made by Prof P Balaram renowned scientists in the field of Bio-organic chemistry and molecular biophysics from Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in India. It is important to study the contributions made by him to understand magnitudes and nature of contribution in a particular domain. The data was collected using Scopus database. Further the paper highlights on the contributions of P Balaram author productivity, Collaborations magnitude, Productivity of year wise distribution, collaboration coefficient, channels of communications, most used author keywords and high cited papers.

The Documents Published In The Electronic Library: A Scientometric Overview, Vishal Dattatray Bapte

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The present article is a bibliometric analysis of 2340 documents published in The Electronic Library retrieved from Scoups during 1983 to 2020. However, the primary focus has been on the prominent authors, thematic map and multiple collaboration ratio. The average citation for these documents is 4.74 citations per paper. Articles and review papers have been the important ingredients of the source journal. Overall 9787 citations were calculated for 2340 documents. The collaborative index is calculated as 1.99%. USA, United Kingdom and South Korea have been the leading countries in case of country-wise output. USA is equally ahead in terms of …

Scientometric Analysis Of Research Productivity Of Iit(Ism) Dhanbad, Satish Kumar

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The study is aimed to analyze the research productivity of the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad for a period of twenty years during 2000-2019. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the research performance of IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. For this study, the data was harvested from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (WoS) bibliographical database, and further analysis was done with various prospects to know the high prolific authors and areas of research intrest. 6,962 research papers have been published over 20 years in which 5,201 research publications are in referred research journals, and rest of the research publications are …

Research Productivity And Citation Impact Of S.C. Sharma As Seen Through The Scopus Database, N Vasantha Raju, N.S. Harinarayana

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This study presented the bibliometric analysis of Sharma’s research publications as found in the Scopus database. The study presents the publication profile of Sharma in terms of the number of papers published, top journals where Sharma has published his research papers frequently, subject area, author collaborations, and institutional collaboration and so on. The study also analyzes the research impact through citations count, highly cited papers and h-index. VOSviewer, a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks, was used to visualize the co-author collaborations, country collaborations and keyword analysis. A comparative analysis of the Scopus and the Google Scholar indicates …

Bibliometrics Of Covid-19 Publications In First Three Months Of 2020, Anil Kumar Siwach

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The paper is an attempt to analyze the publications on COVID-19, an infectious disease which has been declared a pandemic by WHO. The publications during Jan-March 2020 have been selected for the study that has been indexed in Scopus database till March 31, 2020. It was found that during this span of three months, 884 documents have been published on COVID-19 in the form of articles, news, letters, notes, editorials, reviews, short surveys and erratum. These documents received a total of 2603 citations and six documents received even more than 100 citations. China has contributed maximum documents and Huazhong University …

A Holistic Evaluation Of Buddhism Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Global Publications Related To Buddhism Between 1975 And 2017, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Engin Senel

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Although Buddhism is the fourth largest religion of the world with almost 500 million followers, to the best of our knowledge, academic literature lacks a bibliometric study investigating Buddhism documents. We used four databases provided by Web of Science; Thomson Reuters to extract the academic documents related to Buddhism and included all items published between 1975 and 2017. We generated info-maps and info-graphics showing distribution of world countries’ publication productivity and connections in bibliometric networks. A total of 25,267 articles were included and the most common document types were original articles, reviews and meeting reports (76.11, 19,38 and 3.84, respectively). …

Mapping And Clustering Analysis On Coronavirus Literature In China: A Bibliometric Analysis During 2011-2020, Mohd Akhter

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The present study is first of its kind as it attempts to ascertain publications output on coronavirus as reflected in Scopus database from the Chinese perspective. The most productive contributors, institutions, journals and core subjects in coronavirus publications are identified in this study. The highly cited articles on coronavirus are also identified. The VOS-viewer software is used to identify the collaborative network of authors, countries and occurrence of keywords. During 2011-2020 a total of 1331 publications were published in this field. The highest number 190 publications were published in 2018. The most prolific contributor was Jiang, S. who contributed 63 …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Yam Production Literature On Sub-Saharan Africa Listed In Agora And Teeal Databases Between 2003 And 2017, Blessed Oluwadamilola Agbaje, Wole Michael Olatokun Prof.

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ABSTRACT

Objective - This paper reports the findings from a study designed to investigate the following traits on white guinea yam publications for fifteen years: information outlets, trend of scientific productivity, degree of author’s collaboration, prolific authors and their institutional affiliations, journal bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis. The main aim of the paper is to examine patterns in yam research literature with a view to enhancing the development of yam production research by collating indexed information.

Methods - Scholarly citation data of yam production literature on Sub-Saharan Africa from AGORA and TEEAL databases between 2003 and 2017 were collected. Network …

Indian Contribution Status Of The Cataract Research: A Bibliometric Analysis, Shiv Singh, Sanjay Kataria

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Based on cataract research data obtained from the Scopus database, it is comprehended that 3673 (3.93 % global share) researched articles from India on cataract had been published till 2017, which place India on 6^th position in the world in terms of research paper output. About 62.13 % of the Indian publications appeared during the period 2008-2017. L.V. Prasad Eye Institute India and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi was the most productive as they had been publishing the highest number of papers, i.e., 424 and 385, respectively. About 38.71% Indian publications are a result of …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Bioscience Trends Journal (2007-2017): Knowledge Dynamics And Visualization, Anis Fuad, Yuan-Chii Gladys Lee, Chien-Yeh Hsu

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BioScience Trends (BST) is a peer-reviewed journal belongs to the International Research and Cooperation Association for Bio & Socio-Sciences Advancement (IRCA-BSSA) Group of Japan. Despite a decade of existence, no study was performed to measure the bibliometric profile of the journal. The objective of this study was to investigate the bibliometric characteristic of BST. A bibliometric analysis will specifically measure: 1) growth rate of the scientific publications, 2) dynamics of authorship and collaboration pattern; 3) core research themes of articles that have been published, and 4) citation pattern of BST. Bibliographical archives of BST were obtained from the Core Collection …

Research Output Of Army Medical College, Pakistan: A Bibliometric Study Based On Scopus Database, Ikram Ul Haq, Midrar Ullah, Muhammad Tanveer

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to carry-out bibliometric analysis of publications by authors associated with Army Medical College, Pakistan using Scopus database.

Methodology: All publications, published from 1977 to 2018, by the authors affiliated with Army Medical College, Pakistan were retrieved from Scopus database. The bibliographic records of all retrieved publications were downloaded in the Microsoft Excel. The data regarding phase-wise growth of publications; citations; subject distribution; the most prolific authors and journals; and research collaboration within Pakistan and abroad were analyzed and presented in tabular form.

Findings: A total of 417 publications were found …