4 research outputs found
Scientometric Dimensions of Innovation Communication Productivity of the University of Madras: A Study based on Web of Science Database
The paper analysis quantitatively 3830 papers published during 1999-2011 by the University of Madras in various domains like . Our work is based on data from the Web of Science and covers the 1999 to 2011 period. During 1999–2011 University of Madras publications have received a total of 25103 citations. The average number of citations per year was 1931. The average number of citations per publication was 6.55. The authors with most prolific publications were D. Welmurugan who topped the list with 317 publications during the period under study followed by R. Raghunathan with 254 publications, M N Ponnuswamy with 192 publications, H K Fun with 160 publications, K Ravikumar K with 146 publications, A K Mohanakrishnan with 138 publications, P Varalakshmi with 108 publications. Core journals preferred for publishing with high number of publications were: Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online with 571 publications, Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications with 87 publications, Tetrahedron Letters with 80 publications, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry with 63 publications, Chemico Biological Interactions with 59 publications, Synthetic Communications with 57 publications, Current Science with 56 publications. Our analysis does not provide detailed insight on publications in another most important publication channel – scientific monographs – due to non-existence of suitable quality indicators
Scientometric dimensions of pulsed laser deposition research: a global perspective
101-110Attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of world literature in the field of pulsed laser deposition
in terms of publication output as per Science Citation Index (1982-2006). During 1982-2006 a total of 8534 papers were
published by the scientists in the field pulsed laser deposition. The average number of publications published per year was
341.36. The highest number of papers 1074 were published in 2005. There were 84 countries involved in the research in this
field. USA is the top producing country with 2014 publications (19.35%) followed by Japan with 1553 publications (14.92%),
Peoples-R-China with 1106 publications (10.63%), Germany with 763 publications (7.33%) South Korea with 694 publications
(6.67%) and France with 615 publications (5.91%). India ranked 9th among other countries with 291 publications during 1985-
2006. Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. There were 8338 (97.70%) multi-authored
publications and 196 (2.30 %) single authored publications. Chinese Academy of Sciences (Peoples-R-China) topped the list
with 304 publications followed by Nanjing University (Peoples-R-China) with 244 publications, Tokyo Institute of Technology
(Japan) with 233 publications and CNRS (France) with 217 publications. The most productive Indian institutions were: Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai with 52 publications and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with 49 publications.
The most prolific Indian authors were: R. Pinto (Indian-Inst-Technol-Bomaby, Mumbai) with 38 publications, M.S. Hegde
(Indian-Inst-Sci, Bangalore) with 31 publications, S.B. Ogale (Univ Pune, Pune) with 29 publications, L.M. Kukreja (Raja
Ramanna Ctr-Adv-Technol, Indore) with 21 publications, P. Misra (Raja Ramanna Ctr-Adv-Technol, Indore) with 16
publications, R.K. Thareja (Indian-Inst-Technol-Kanpur) with 15 publications. The most preferred journals by the scientists
were: Applied Physics Letters with 962 publications, Journal of Applied Physics with 714 publications, Applied Surface
Science with 614 publications and Thin Solid Films with 541 publications
Open Access Scholarly Publishing in India: A Scientometric Perspective of DOAJ
The present study attempts to evaluate the initiatives taken by India to make its intellectual output accessible for all by publishing in Open Access resources like Open Access journals. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the most accepted and authoritative list of scholarly, peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals. It also highlights various facets related to open access publishing in India on the bases of data collected from DOAJ. The position of India in terms of number of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is fourth well ahead of countries such as Germany, Spain, Canada. Most of the Indian open access journals listed in DOAJ were started in the beginning of 21st century