Analysis of the Altmetric top 100 Altmetric Attention Score Coronavirus publications

The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the publication of many scientific papers. The goal of the present research was to analyze these papers using the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). Statistics for 100 publications with high AAS scores were selected and exported from the Dimension database on May 22nd 2020. The major findings were that these publications were published in 34 different journals or preprint repositories. More than one-third of the total of 657, 350 social media posts were collected from the Twitter platform. The top contributing countries were China, followed by the USA. The paper “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” by Andersen, Kristian G., etal., 2020 had the highest AAS (33 514). These findings may help others to design studies of the AAS in Coronavirus literature and compare them with traditional citations

Research Productivity of LIS Women Faculty in India: A Bibliometric Study During 1988-2018

The current study conducted to quantify the research contribution of Library and Information Science (LIS) women faculty of India between 1988 and 2018. The study prepared an inclusive list of Indian universities offering LIS education by visiting its official websites individually and collected the names and other details of the LIS women faculties engaged in the teaching profession. The bibliographical data were extracted from the Scopus database during the year 1988-2018. Finally, a total of 146 research articles published by 38 LIS women faculty in India. The core findings of this study were the majority of research works published in journal articles followed by review articles, conference papers, and book chapters respectively. It was also revealed that LIS women faculty of India tend to publish more in an international platform than a national one. Dual authorship found dominating among the LIS women faculty of India. Further study revealed that P. Mahajan was the most productive LIS women faculty of India from Panjab University. The study result suggests that very small portion participation in research contributions as the current study surveyed 129 universities offering LIS education in India. However, many universities do not have a single LIS women faculty. The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) can take necessary measures to boost up the research productivity of LIS women faculty of India

Research Productivity of LIS Women Faculty in India: A Bibliometric Study during 1988-2018

The current study conducted to quantify the research contribution of Library and Information Science (LIS) women faculty of India between 1988 and 2018. The study prepared an inclusive list of Indian universities offering LIS education by visiting its official websites individually and collected the names and other details of the LIS women faculties engaged in the teaching profession. The bibliographical data were extracted from the Scopus database during the year 1988-2018. Finally, a total of 146 research articles published by 38 LIS women faculty in India. The core findings of this study were the majority of research works published in journal articles followed by review articles, conference papers, and book chapters respectively. It was also revealed that LIS women faculty of India tend to publish more in an international platform than a national one. Dual authorship found dominating among the LIS women faculty of India. Further study revealed that P. Mahajan was the most productive LIS women faculty of India from Panjab University. The study result suggests that very small portion participations in research contributions as the current study surveyed 129 universities offering LIS education in India. However, many universities do not have a single LIS women faculty. The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) can take necessary measures to boost up the research productivity of LIS women faculty of India

Open Access Repository: A Comparative study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Open access movement has been changed dramatically in recent past years. And it has been supported by individual researchers, institutes, organizations and publishers too. The current paper is a comparative study of Open Access Repositories (OARSs) among three European countries Austria Germany, Switzerland registered in Open Access Repository Ranking (OARSR) (http://repositoryranking.org. ) website. It is also discussed and highlights about open access repositories, operational status, top ten repositories by collection wise and policy etc.. The study found that 181 unique open access repositories in three countries whereas most of the open access repositories found from Germany160 (88.40 %) repositories. Furthermore, the study revealed that 81 (44.75%) repositories are using OPUS software to develop open repositories. Most of the open access repositories are institutional repositories by nature

Mendeley Readership Count: An Investigation of Sambalpur University Publications from 1971-2018

Mendeley offers readership statistic to publications and use these readership statistics to evaluate research performance of an individual. The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate the Mendeley readership counts of Sambalpur University\u27s publications from 1971 to 2018. In this study; bibliographical data exported from Scopus using affiliations search tab and exported data between1971 to 2018. A total of 1553 records were found. The exported data converted into a text file and run in Webometric Analyst software and exported the Mendeley readership data from Mendeley website. A total 1399 record existed in the Mendeley database, in which 173 data have no readership found and further, 1226 publications data analyzed. The readership statistics of Sambalpur University have no impressive growth. Further study found that the yearly growth of Mendeley readership was not stable, and it fluctuated over time. There were positive 0.3303 correlations between Scopus citation and Mendeley readership of the published papers. Mendeley readership statistics by country found that most of the readers are from India, followed by the United States

Open Access Repository: A Comparative study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Abstract - Open access movement has been changed dramatically in recent past years. And it has been supported by individual researchers, institutes, organizations and publishers too. The current paper is a comparative study of Open Access Repositories (OARSs) among three European countries Austria Germany, Switzerland registered in Open Access Repository Ranking (OARSR) (http://repositoryranking.org. ) website. It is also discuss and highlights about open access repositories, operational status, top ten repositories by collection wise and policy etc.. The study found that 181 unique open access repositories in three countries where as most of the open access repositories found from Germany160 (88.40 %) repositories. Furthermore, study revealed that 81 (44.75%) repositories are using OPUS software to develop open repositories. Most of the open access repositories are institutional repositories by nature

Analysis of the Altmetric top 100 Altmetric Attention Score Coronavirus publications

The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the publication of many scientific papers. The goal of the present research was to analyze these papers using the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). Statistics for 100 publications with high AAS scores were selected and exported from the Dimension database on May 22nd 2020. The major findings were that these publications were published in 34 different journals or preprint repositories. More than one-third of the total of 657, 350 social media posts were collected from the Twitter platform. The top contributing countries were China, followed by the USA. The paper “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” by Andersen, Kristian G., etal., 2020 had the highest AAS (33 514). These findings may help others to design studies of the AAS in Coronavirus literature and compare them with traditional citations

International contribution in two Indian LIS journals: A Comparative study

The two leading Indian LIS journals namely Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) facilitate immediate open access to the published papers in worldwide and indexed in the Scopus database. Thus, it enhances the utility and visibility of both the journals and makes it very conducive for international authors to contribute their papers. This paper aims to determine the trends of the international contribution to two LIS reputed journals namely Annals of Library and Information Studies and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology. The research sample consists of 106 journal articles published in 2 Indian LIS journals. In this study bibliographical data extracted from the Scopus database using the advanced search in the database. Further identified the foreign authorship by viewing the affiliation of authors. Finally, the analysis was performed using applications, such as Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer. The limitation of the study is that only international contributions were considered and analyzed and deliberately ignored the domestic publications. The study found that authors from Nigeria published the highest number of 35 articles. Furthermore, Wijetunge P. from Sri Lanka contributed with a maximum of 4 papers. The study also noted that the highest occurrence of keyword was “Nigeria” with 19 times occurred. However, International contributions to Indian tow LIS journals were not stable

Open Access Repository: A Comparative study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Open access movement has been changed dramatically in recent past years. And it has been supported by individual researchers, institutes, organizations and publishers too. The current paper is a comparative study of Open Access Repositories (OARSs) among three European countries Austria Germany, Switzerland registered in Open Access Repository Ranking (OARSR) (http://repositoryranking.org. ) website. It is also discussed and highlights about open access repositories, operational status, top ten repositories by collection wise and policy etc.. The study found that 181 unique open access repositories in three countries whereas most of the open access repositories found from Germany160 (88.40 %) repositories. Furthermore, the study revealed that 81 (44.75%) repositories are using OPUS software to develop open repositories. Most of the open access repositories are institutional repositories by nature

Gender Disparity Among Indian Library and Information Science Professionals: a 20-year sample of publications from 1999-2018

Gender disparity is present in many research fields including in Library and Information Science (LIS). This paper studied gender disparity among Indian LIS professionals and measure the intellectual output 20 years. The study reviewed 1,195 publications in the LIS field from 1999 to 2018, determining the gender of the first author. An analysis of the publication list determined the yearly contributions of male and female authors, together with the average distributions, yearly citation rates and other metrics, by gender. Across the whole study period, publications first-authored by men outnumbered those by women. Similarly, overall contributions by men were higher than by women. BM Gupta and M Tripathi were the most prolific male and female authors, respectively. India was the most common keyword used by both first author genders. “Bibliometrics”, “Digital Library”, “Scientometrics”, “Academic Libraries”, “E-resources” and “web 2.0” were the core research areas of both men and women. When journals were divided into national and international scope, articles by men outnumbered those by women on both levels. However, 65% of the articles published by women were in international journals, compared to 58% of the articles published by men (59% overall), suggesting that the quality of work produced by women was comparable to or higher than the quality of work published by men. Consequently, gender parity in Indian LIS publications may be some way off. As such, further research is required to highlight and mitigate the issues experienced by women in academia in order to increase productivity in the LIS field in India