Research output of Indian universities in sciences (2015–2019): a scientometric analysis

Abstract

PurposeThe present study aims to trace out the science research output of top Indian universities from 2015 to 2019, as reflected in the Web of Science (WOS) database.Design/methodology/approachThe present study has selected the Science Citation Index (SCI) of WOS core collection for selecting top Indian universities in terms of total publications in the last five years (2015–2019). The University of Delhi (DU), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Anna University (AU), Jadavpur University (JU) and Punjab University (PU) have been selected. The study identified the most prolific authors, collaborating countries, collaborating institutions and the impact of their output in terms of citations per paper (CPP) and relative citation impact (RCI). For visualizing purposes, VOSviewer was used. The study also identified frequently used keywords and channels used for communicating research results.FindingsThe authors retrieved 26,173 documents consisting of journal articles, review papers and proceeding papers. The consistent growth of science research output has been observed. The University of Delhi (DU) has the maximum science publications. The study reflects that multi-authored papers have more research impact in terms of citation received. The USA, South Korea and Germany are the most collaborating countries. The top Indian Universities have a major collaboration with Anna University, Indian Institute of Technology, Center for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India.Originality/valueThe present study reveals how the science research output of top Indian universities has grown in the last few years. The findings of the study can be used for identifying specific science research areas where special attention can be given.

Evaluating the global research productivity on domestic violence: a bibliometric visualisation analysis

“…The wide acceptance of this database has prompted the present study to use Scopus as a research database to execute quantitative bibliometric analysis in line with the identified study objectives. Further to expedite bibliometric network analysis, VOSviewer and RStudio tools were applied for taking a holistic visualisation approach in line with the study objectives (Mahala and Singh, 2021; Guleria and Kaur, 2021). The timeframe of the study for retrieving the academic publications from the Scopus database is a decade i.e.…”

Editorial: Special selection on bibliometrics and literature review

“…They noted that India's publications on planetary science research have increased over time, with an annual growth rate of 9.66%, and the USA was the primary collaborator with India. Readers may also be interested in Mahala and Singh (2021), who traced the science research output of top Indian universities from 2015 to 2019. Yang and Qi (2020) compared the impacts of proceedings papers in the fields of social SSH and science.…”

Editorial

“…This selection consists of bibliometric, scientometric and related analyses on several interesting topics. Articles cover the application of these analyses on research outputs related to Alzahra University in Iran (Doulani, 2021), Iranian clinical medicine researchers (Batooli et al, 2021), a group of five top Indian universities in science (Mahala and Singh, 2021), and China's international collaborative research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chen et al, 2021b). We also include studies on using these techniques in studying the use of Sci-Hub in research (Behboudi et al, 2021), ecopreneurship (Guleria and Kaur, 2021), as well as the current research trends in 5G security (Farooqui et al, 2021).…”