Scientometric portrait of T. S. West

T. S. West, the internationally well known analytical chemist has been widely recognised as a very successful scientist. His research productivity and collaboration pattern were analysed by years, papers, authorships, and authorwise productivity. The channels of communications used and distribution of articles among channels were found out. He has 410 papers to his credit. The period 1969-70 when he was 42-43 years age was most productive with 41 papers in 1969 and seven single authorship papers in 1970. Quinquennial collaboration coefficients ranged between 0.57 to 1.00, clearly indicating high collaboration team spirit in his research group. His productivity coefficient was 0.45 indicating rapid publication activity during early period of research career. His most prominent collaborators in number of papers were: R. M. Dagnall (92), G. F. Kirkbright (77), R. Belcher (56), K. C. Thompson (19), J. D. Norris, (13), and J. F. Alder (11). Top ranking journals, with papers, to which he had contributed were: Anal. Chim. Acta (106), Talanta (84), The Analyst (49), Anal. Chem. (23), and J. Chem. Soc. (20). Publication density was 8.54, publication concentration was 6.25, and average Bradford multiplier was 3.9. High frequency keywords in the titles of the articles were: Atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (51), Atomic absorption spectroscopy (43), and Atomic absorption spectrometry (31). The results indicate his temporal publication productivity and the nature of the research activities were such that he is eminently qualified to be taken as a 'role model' for the younger generation to emulate

Report of the LISACON 2020 - Third National Conference on Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship

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Scholarly Impact: A Pluralistic Conceptualisation.

We critically assess a common approach to scholarly impact that relies almost exclusively on a single stakeholder (i.e., other academics). We argue that this approach is narrow and insufficient, and thereby threatens the credibility and long-term sustainability of the management research community. We offer a solution in the form of a broader and novel conceptual and measurement framework of scholarly impact: a pluralist perspective. It proposes actions that depart from the current win–lose and zero-sum views that lead to false trade-offs such as research versus practice, rigor versus relevance, and research versus service. Our proposed pluralist conceptualization can be instrumental in enabling business schools and other academic units to clarify their strategic direction in terms of which stakeholders they are trying to affect and why, the way future scholars are trained, and the design and implementation of faculty performance management systems. We argue that the adoption of a pluralist conceptualization of scholarly impact can increase motivation for engaged scholarship and design-science research that is more conducive to actionable knowledge as opposed to exclusive career-focused advances, enhance the relevance and value of our scholarship, and thereby help to narrow the much-lamented chasm between research and practice

Scientometric portrait of Ram Gopal Rastogi

Publication productivity of Indian scientist (R.G. Rastogi) has been documented. Scientometric analysis of 312 papers by Ram Gopal Rastogi published during 1954 to 1992 in various domains: (a) Luni -solar activity and quiet -time E & F- region (57); (b) Equatorial electric field and low and mid latitude iof:osphere (78); (c) Ionospheric E- region irregularities (19); (dj Ionospheric F- region irregularities (32); and (e) Magnetic disturbance effects on the equatorial low and mid latitude ionosphere (23) were analysed. Interdomainery contents and of the number of papers: a+b were 36; b+c and b+d were 20 each; b+e were 16;. c+e were 5; a+e were 3; d+e were 2; and a+d had only one publication. Highest collaborations were with H. Chandra (61), M.R. Deshpande (42), and G. Sethia (19) out of his total 97 collaborators. His highest productivity was during 1978 with 28 papers followed by 19 papers during 1977. The core journals preferred by him for publishing papers were: Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics, India, and Journal of Atomic & Terrestrial Physics, UK (59 each), followed by Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, India (34). Most prolific title keywords with their frequencies were: Ionosphere (92); Equatorial (61); F-region (53); Equatorial electrojet region (40), and Magnetic equator (30)

ORGANISING DIGITAL INFORMATION USING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: AN ATTEMPT FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CORPORATE SECTOR

22-27An attempt has been made to develop a database of R &amp; D reports and trade literature using open source software - 'GreenStone Digital Library' (GSDL). The reports in digital form are generated within the organisation and the data downloaded from INTERNET are also included in the database. The paper discusses the approach to have Knowledge Management system, which organises the digital documents in a library system and its effective utilisation in Intranet environment.</i

Scientometric Portrait of Nobel Laureate Harald zur Hausen

71-78Highlights quantitatively the publication productivity of Harald zur Hausen a renowned scientist and Nobel Laureate in Physiology who was honoured with Nobel Prize for the discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer. He had 285 publications during 1964 – 2009 in four domains: Adenoviruses (14), Epstein Barr and Herpesviruses (72), Papillomaviruses (122) and other associated disciplines (77). The average number of publications per year was 6.19. Highest Collaboration Rate (1) of Harald zur Hausen was found 13 times of his 46 years of career. Most prolific authors associated with him were: L. Gissman (39), E. –M de Villiers (25), F. Rosl (20), J. R. Schledhofer (19), E. Schawarz (13), R. Heilbronn (12), N. Yamamoto (11) and K. O. Fresen (10). He has reported his research output through 74 different channels include 61 journals (82.43%), 12 Book chapters (16.22%) and 1 Report (1.35%). His most preferred journals for publishing papers were International Journal of Cancer (48), Virology (39), Journal of Virology (33), Cancer Research (14) and Medical Microbiology and Immunology (13). Co-Authorship Index for mega authored papers for domain ‘Papillomavirus’ (154) is more than average indicates this domain involves more of collaborative research. His publication density was 3.60 and publication concentration was 3.49. Harald zur Hausen’s productivity coefficient was 0.50 indicates that he had steady publications record in his scientific career

Eugene to Altmetrics: A chase for virtual foot prints!

134-139There is an increasing interest in science communication and promotion of new inventions in this deluge digital information age. The social media tools available on the Internet assist the promotion of science dramatically and the change is happening in real time models. Expansion of World Wide Web and newer technologies has improved the ways in which science is communicated and its evaluation techniques. The use of conventional metric tools gauges the impact of scholarly publications using citation and download counts. They are widely used to evaluate articles, authors and disciplines on publishers’ platforms. These tools analyse the citation data in natural course of time and make them available over a period of time. ‘Altmetrics’ is a concept that addresses and measures the conversations happening in the virtual world in real time. The concept supports the prediction mechanism of possible citations for an article in future, if it gets cited in the social media. This paper attempts to create awareness about ‘Altmetrics’ among Indian scholars and takes a closer look at various features available in ‘Altmetric Explorer’ in order to gain insights of the rapidly changing science communication landscape

Eugene to Altmetrics: A chase for virtual foot prints!

There is an increasing interest in science communication and promotion of new inventions in this deluge digital information age. The social media tools available on the Internet assist the promotion of science dramatically and the change is happening in real time models. Expansion of World Wide Web and newer technologies has improved the ways in which science is communicated and its evaluation techniques. The use of conventional metric tools gauges the impact of scholarly publications using citation and download counts. They are widely used to evaluate articles, authors and disciplines on publishers’ platforms. These tools analyse the citation data in natural course of time and make them available over a period of time. ‘Altmetrics’ is a concept that addresses and measures the conversations happening in the virtual world in real time. The concept supports the prediction mechanism of possible citations for an article in future, if it gets cited in the social media. This paper attempts to create awareness about ‘Altmetrics’ among Indian scholars and takes a closer look at various features available in ‘Altmetric Explorer’ in order to gain insights of the rapidly changing science communication landscape

Sharing economy and libraries: a challenge or an opportunity?

Sharing economy is not new, it exists in the corporate world. The norm of sharing resources in libraries is also not new. However, sharing resources and services for a price is relatively new. In the era of dwindling financial resources and shrinking spaces in the libraries, the paper deliberates the concept of sharing economy and the probable avenues librarians can think of to initiate and explore in the sharing economy