Promoting the Educational Research through an Open Access Institutional Repository of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Countries: An Analytical Study

The present study proposed to focus on the current status of SCO countries Open Access Institutional Repositories. Nowadays, institutional repositories play a vital role in promoting higher education systems and research and development. Data were obtained from the Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories (DOAR) website. Then collected data have been analysed and represented in graphical formats to clearly understand the study results. The researchers also assessed the SCO countries’ contribution to various parameters such as type of repository, disciplines, languages interface, and software used to build institutional repository. The study\u27s findings revealed that out of 214 repositories, the highest number of registration of repositories was took place in the year 2011 and 2019, i.e., 36 (16.82%) 34 (15.89%), respectively. It shows that majority used Dspace software 131(61.21%), followed by EPrints 35 (16.36%). Most of the repository preferred the English language158 (52.15%) interface to develop institutional repositories, followed by Russian languages 56(18.48%). The country-wise distribution shows that India has the highest number of institutional repositories, 94(43.93%) registered under open access. The majority of 108(23.08%) intuitional repositories are multidisciplinary, followed by Science General 69(14.74%)

Publication trends in Financial Inclusion: A Scientometric Assessment and Visualization

The purpose of this study is to explore publication trends in financial inclusion for the period 2006-2020. Financial inclusion is an effort to provide financial services to the backward and low-income people of society. It is a dynamic area of research in which the majority of research work is being done. The data has been extracted from the Scopus database, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Various indicators are used year-wise growth trends, degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient, highly productive and influential authors, most productive and meaningful institutes, most productive countries, most supportive funding agencies, most preferred sources, and so on. A total of 1550 documents were published with 7773 citations. Munene J. C. was a highly productive author who has contributed 16 papers with 89 citations and 14 h-index. The highly cited author was Klapper L, whose contribution was six documents with 319 citations. The highly cited article was Financial Inclusion and development, by Sarma M. & Pais J., has a maximum number of citations (i.e., 154) published in the source ‘Journal of international development. The most productive and influential Institute was Makerere University, Uganda, with its contributions of 25 documents. The most productive country was India, with a list of 417 documents. The most preferred source is ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ with 49 documents. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s funding has produced the highest number of publications (i.e., 27 papers). The most Preferred Subjects were economics; Econometrics, and Finance, i.e., 756 papers. In 1550,the published majority of publications were articles (i.e., 1156). The quality of the source is assessed by SJR, SNIP, H-index, and Quartiles. The VOS viewer 1.6.16 was used for keyword co-occurrence and authorship network visualization

Mapping of Global Research Trends in Financial Literacy: A Scientometric Approach

The main goal of this present study was to access the global research trends in financial literacy. The data obtained from the Scopus database, one of Elsevier\u27s largest bibliographic databases. The various scientometric indicators have been applied in this study, such as year-wise growth pattern with Citation, Annual growth rate (AGR), Relative growth rate (RGR), Authorship pattern, degree of collaboration (DC), Correlation coefficient (CC), Most prolific authors, highly cited documents, most collaborative institutes, highly preferred sources, top funding agencies, Subject wise distribution and types of papers, etc. The study comprises a review of 2000 research documents published with 22229 citations from 2001 to 2020. The most productive year during the study was 2019. It is apparent that Lusardi, A. was the most prolific author, with 33 publications. The most highly cited document as financial literacy\u27s Economic importance: Theory and evidence published in 2014. The leading institution in Financial Literacy was the University of Pennsylvania, with 25 publications. The top source was the Journal of consumer affairs from the USA. The most funding agency was the National Institute of Aging funding to 21 publications. The top subjects were economics, Econometrics, and finance. The VOSviewer software version 1.6.16 is used for network visualization. The present study revealed that there a continuous increase in financial literacy research productivity during the study period

Research Productivity of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology

Bibliometric analysis was used to assess the research productivity of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geological (WIHG) during 1991-2020. Data was collected from the Scopus database, and VOSviewer software used for visualization. The study focused on various bibliometrics parameters like year-wise research growth, Authors productivity, Growth rates measures (AGR, RGR, Dt), Collaboration measures (DC and CC), subject-wise distributions, most prolific authors, highly collaborative institutions, most cited documents, top funding agency, types of documents, etc. The results showed that the maximum number of documents, 93 (7.21%), were published in 2017. India and the United States of America contributed the highest numbers of documents, 1289 & 97. The highest number, 995(60.78%) of scholarly publications, has come from the subject of Earth and Planetary Sciences. P Srivastava is the most prolific and highly cited author. WIHG collaborates with many IITs like IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, and central universities such as HNB Garhwal University, BHU, etc. The Randolph glacier inventory: A globally complete inventory of glaciers is the most highly cited publication in the Journal of Glaciology by Pfeffer et al. in 2014 with 515 citations. The Current Science, has the first rank of productive and cited source with 156 documents and 2380 citations

Visualizing Publication Trends in Webology Journal: A Bibliometric Review based on the Scopus Database (2006-2020)

This study aims to explore the publication trends in Webology Journal. The Scopus database was chosen for the extraction of bibliographic data for the period 2006 to 2020. Then, VOSviewer software was used to analyse the data and generate visualization network maps. A total of 295 publications were found during the study period. The various bibliometrics indicators have been applied to identify the publication trends of Webology Journal. The finding revealed that the highest number of papers (92) and the maximum number of citations (273) appeared in 2020. Among the most contributing nations, Iran has contributed 63 documents, followed by India 50 and the United States 25. Further, the author, A. Noruzi, has found a highly productive and cited author among other authors by contributing 24 documents with 68 citations in Webology journal. The University of Tehran contributed 19 publications and was identified as the top ten highly effective research institutions. The study concludes that Webology journal publishes quality publications, and it is considered one of the leading journals\u27 in the web technology field

Research Productivity of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology: A Bibliometric Review

The study examines the research productivity of the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) for a selected period of 2012-2020. In 2012, the Scopus database started indexing DJLIT publications, and it was the motivation behind choosing this specific period for the present study. The sourced data for the present study was extracted from the Scopus database covering the period 2012-2020. The various bibliometric parameters have been applied, such as year-wise distribution of publications with citations, RCI, ACPP, CAI, Citation analysis, the collaboration of authors, institutions and countries to measure the research productivity. The study\u27s findings revealed that the number of publications over the years fluctuates up and down but expanded when the journal was indexed in Scopus. Further, joint authors\u27 contribution found high at the rate of 358(67.42%), followed by single authorship 173(32.58%). The author, B. M. Gupta, was the most productive and cited author during the study period. The University of Delhi contributed 42 publications and identified as first among the top ten highly effective institutions. The study concludes that the DJLIT publishes good quality research articles covering the different aspects of library and information science disciplines. It comes under Q2 scoring category of journal citation ranking

Digital Divide in India: An Overview

The phrase "digital divide" refers to the disparity between those who have access to information and computing technology and those who do not. A few facts about the digital divide are presented in the article, concentrating on the regional and national outlooks, including the Indian scenario, its definitions and types, factors widening the digital divide, types of digital divide, reasons for the digital divide, as well as programmes for digital inclusion. It emphasises the digital divide in the Indian context by addressing its infrastructure constraints, which comprise energy, IT penetration, teledensity, and the online business, as well as its supporting policies. It also highlights projects that have contributed to narrowing the digital divide in India, such as Akashganga, Passenger Reservation System, Bhoomi, Gyandoot, Warana wired villages, Village Knowledge Centre, Information Village Research, Akshaya e-centres, E-Chaupal, the Simputer Project, and others. Due to the digital divide, developing countries are unable to fully utilize the internet's potential to eradicate poverty and boost economic growth