Measuring Scholarly Traits of a University

A Scientometric Study of the Scholarly Publications of the Bharathidasan University

Keywords: Subject categories, Research productivity, Citation topics, Funding agencies, Micro citation topics, Meso citation topics

Abstract

The present research analysed the research outcome of Bharathidasan University in terms of publication output as classified in the new subject classification of Web of Science Database as Macro, Meso, Micro topics. The analysis could reveal that Bharathidasan University has contributed into all the 10 Macro 326 Meso, 2500 Micro as classified by the source database. While the researcher taken into consideration of the top 20 areas of research where Bharathidasan University faculty and researchers pursued and published. In addition, frequency and percentage analysis, the analytical tools, VOSviewer, Histcite, Excel have been used. The research trends in terms of quantum of publications, the Journal source and funding agencies have been correlated at national level, while it varies significantly at Global Level. The global output of the identified 20 highly concentrated research areas of Bharathidasan University, India has had a dominant position as it holds 6th position in two of the subject categories. All the top 5 major contributing subject areas were India is in fourth place among the Asian nations.

Published
2024-08-08
How to Cite
Sakthivel, G., & Srinivasaragavan, S. (2024). Measuring Scholarly Traits of a University. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 44(4), 212-221. https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.44.4.19419
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Research Paper
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