Indian Doctoral Research in Social Sciences with Specific Reference to Library and Information Science

The very purpose of the paper is to focus on the output of doctoral research in different fields of Social Sciences in India. Attempts have been made to project various indicators of Social Science research and more comprehensively Library and Information Science research by analyzing doctoral research works carried out during the period 2010-2012. While presenting quantification of research output in the form doctoral theses for the period of study, the paper highlights distribution of research output by discipline, language, ranking pattern of Universities, States, and supervisors by their output. The paper also indicates the core areas of research activity in the field of Library and Information Science during the study period

Indian Doctoral Research in Social Sciences with Specific Reference to Library and Information Science

The very purpose of the paper is to focus on the output of doctoral research in different fields of Social Sciences in India. Attempts have been made to project various indicators of Social Science research and more comprehensively Library and Information Science research by analyzing doctoral research works carried out during the period 2010-2012. While presenting quantification of research output in the form doctoral theses for the period of study, the paper highlights distribution of research output by discipline, language, ranking pattern of Universities, States, and supervisors by their output. The paper also indicates the core areas of research activity in the field of Library and Information Science during the study period

Indian Doctoral Research in the field of Sociology: A Mixed Method Approach

The very purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic analysis of the doctoral research works produced by Indian Universities in the discipline of Sociology during the period from 2004 to 2017. The study is based on the secondary data, compiled from the authentic Indian data source on doctoral research known as “University News”. It aims to find out the developmental trends of Sociology research, the productivity of states, universities, and supervisors as well as languages and gender-wise productivity of Sociology doctoral research. It also aims to find out the most frequently occurred key words and the research areas associated with these keywords through a qualitative analysis of the titles of the research works done in the discipline. The study revealed that in all, 1333 doctoral degrees were awarded from 104 universities, guided by 676 supervisors. Delhi, the National Capital Territory of India proved its research competence by emerging as a leading destination of Sociology research in India. Similarly, at the institution level, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi) found to be the prominent institution that awarded the maximum number of doctoral degrees (200) among the universities. A K Pandey (University of Lucknow) and Anand Kumar (JNU) are the most prolific supervisors who have guided to a maximum of 19 scholars each during the period of study. Research works on ‘Women’ focused on aspects like, ‘social presence’, ‘profession’, ‘empowerment’, ‘health’, ‘crime’, ‘education’, and other related issues on different communities are found to be the Indian scholars\u27 most favoured research areas in sociology