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The higher education efficiency evaluation model using the data envelopment analysis method has interested many researchers. This paper uses bibliometric analysis on publications extracted from the Scopus database to provide a comprehensive overview of research publications on the measurement of higher education efficiency based on data envelopment analysis: its growth rate, major collaboration networks, the most important and popular research topic. A total of 169 related publications were collected and analyzed from 1988 to 2021. The analysis results show that: Publications published every year have increased sharply in the last six years; The quality of publications is relatively high as publications tend to be published in journals with high-ranking indexes; Countries with the most influence in studies on this topic are: Italy, China, Spain, the USA, and the United Kingdom; Authors with the most influence in this research direction are Agasisti T., Abbott M., Doucouliagos C., Avkiran N.K., and Johnes J.; The research cooperation among countries and among affiliations is not strong. Finally, the paper has provided recommendations for future studies based on the findings.

This paper analyzes 8090 research publications in the area of life sciences in Haryana published during the last ten years (2005-14). The publications data was sourced from Scopus International database. The findings reveal that Haryana averaged 12.20% annual growth in life science research, citation impact of 5.64 citations per paper during 2005-14. Haryana published 24.08% of its research output in life science as national collaborative papers and 12.48% as international collaborative papers during 2005-14. Among its various subfields, agricultural & biological sciences dominated life science research accounting for the share (51.61%). The top 20 most productive organizations based out in Haryana accounted for 84.36% share, registered average productivity of 341.25, averaged 6.01 citations per paper, averaged h-index of 12.5 during 2005-14. The top 20 most productive authors with affiliations to Haryana accounted for 13.91% share, registered average productivity of 56.25 papers per author, and averaged 8.88 citations per paper, and averaged h-index of 13.91 during 2005-14. The top 25 journals accounted for 32.44% share of total output (8090) by the state. Thirty 30 highly cited papers received 100 + citations and together cumulated 4890 citations, with an average citation per paper of 163.0 during 2005-14. In these 30 highly cited papers, 120 authors and 60 organizations from Haryana had participated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since social media is increasingly pervasive in modern society, this bibliometric study aims to investigate its educational applications. Using the Scopus database, the bibliometric method analyses publications published between 2010 and 2022. The research indicates that student participation and ease of access are the two main benefits of using social media in the classroom. However, it also spreads misinformation and poses privacy and security risks. Articles that discussed how social media could be used in the classroom were found and organised using a bibliometric analysis based on their subject matter, year of publication, and authors. The research shows that between 2001 and 2020, there was a rise in the number of papers discussing the use of social media in the classroom. In addition, the top five countries in terms of annual publication output include the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia/India, and Canada. To further explore the connections between relevant articles, a co-citation network analysis was performed. Therefore, there must be strict rules and policies for using social media in education to address privacy and security concerns and the spread of false information.

Background: As a global pandemic, Covid-19 has aroused great concern and garnered research interest world-wide In India a growing number of related researches have been published in the last few months. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis of these publications may provide indication of current status and future research trends in the field. Methods: The India's literature about Covid-19 published during 2019-2021 were searched in the Scopus database using a well-defined search strategy. The following keywords "Covid 19" or "2019 novel coronavirus" or "coronavirus 2019" or "coronavirus disease 2019" or "2019-novel CoV" or "2019 ncov" or covid 2019 or covid19 or "corona virus 2019" or ncov-2019 or ncov2019 or "nCoV 2019" or 2019-ncov or covid-19 or "Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" or "SARS-CoV-2"were used in "Keyord" and "Title" (Title of articles) tags to reach the relevant publications. VOSviewer was applied to perform the bibliometric analysis of these articles. Results: The bibliometric analysis of India's literature on Covid-19 indicates that there were 10,233 indexed publications in Scopus database until April 2021. Of all these publications, 52.87% were original articles and 11.75% (1202) publications received external funding from more than 150 agencies and 27.41% (2805) involve international collaboration with more than 150 countries. USA contributed the largest share (38.47%) in India's international collaborative papers, followed by U.K. (22.89%), China (11.55%), Saudi Arabia (11.44), Australia (11.23%), etc. In the geographical distribution, Delhi tops the publication list (with 21.86% share), followed by Mumbai (7.30%), Chennai (7.27%), Pune (6.44%) and Kolkata (6.04%). Among population age groups, "Adults" accounts for the largest publication share (9.98%), followed by "Middle Aged" (5.07%), "Children" (3.65%), "Aged" (3.65%) and "Adolescents" (2.82%). "Treatment studies" among prominent topics, account for the largest publication share (34.12% share), followed by "Clinical Studies" (13.13%), "Epidemiology" (10.54%), "Imaging and Diagnostics" (9.64%), "Pathophysiology" (6.27%), and etc. The 1311 organizations and 3413 authors participated in India's research on Covid-19, of which the top 30 organizations and authors contributed 43.50% and 11.57% national publication share and 45.62% and 32.14% national citation share. AIIMS-New Delhi and PGIMER-Chandigarh were the most productive organizations (with 623 and 468 papers). IVRIBareilly (21.32 and 4.44) and IIT-New Delhi (12.37 and 2.58) were the most impactful organizations. V. Wiwanitkit and K. Dhama were the most productive authors (with 182 and. 107 papers). R. Sah (42.89 and 8.93) and A. Misra (41.93 and 8.74) were the most impactful authors. International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences (270 papers) and Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (210 papers) were the most productive journals. Science of the Total Environment (43.98) and Asian Journal of Psychiatry (19.19) were the most impactful journals. Conclusion: The paper provides a deeper understanding of the current Covid-19 research milieu in India, by identifying key players (and their collaboration linkages) and key sub-fields, while highlighting potential patterns that could assist future researchers in their scientific pursuits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study on the publication pattern of physical research laboratory (PRL) scientists in Ahmedabad, India. The study used data about research papers published in journals, conference proceedings and invited talks. Results showed that the number of multiple and double authored papers surpassed the number of single authored papers during the period from 1997 to 2006. The study also determined types of collaborative papers in conference proceedings during the period.

The paper describes quantitative and qualitative dimensions of nanomedicine research studies in India. The study is based on research publications data in nanomedicine research (1491 publications) as covered in Scopus data base for the period 2002-20. The study finds that nanomedicine research in India registered a high 73.7% growth with an average of 22.93 citations per paper. The nano-oncology subfield accounted for the highest share (48.49% share) in the national output, followed by seven other nanomedicine subfields. Jamia Hamdard University, Delhi, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi lead as the most productive organizations in the country. The paper also lists the most productive authors in nanomedicine research. The most productive research journals that reported nanomedicine research in India include Nanomedicine, International Journal of Nanomedicine and Current Pharmaceutical Design. In addition, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, International Journal of Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Today topped in the list of most cited research journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the variables having impact on the student motivation have been analyzed based on the articles, conference papers, master's theses and doctoral dissertations published in the years 2000-2017. A total of 165 research papers were selected for the research material and the data were collected through qualitative research techniques through document review and content analysis. According to the research results, the most important factors affecting student motivation are the fields of teacher, teachers' classroom management skills and their teaching methods. In this research, factors having less influence on the student motivation are parental communication, student characteristics and study fields. In addition, relational search type was used more than others, mostly students were selected as the study group and most researches were conducted in USA and Turkey.

Seamless learning has a significance that has been increasing in recent years, and an increasing number of studies on the subject in the literature draws attention. This study aimed to examine the research on seamless learning between 1996 and 2020 with the bibliometric analysis method. The Scopus database was used in the collection of the data. After various screening processes, a total of 389 publications were included in the analysis. Descriptive analysis and bibliometric analysis were used in the analysis of the data. The distribution of publications by years, types of publications, sources, and languages were analyzed in the research. Additionally, visual maps were created with analyses of co-author, cocitation, and co-word. At the end of the study, it was seen that there has been an increase in the number of publications from the past to the present, articles and papers were predominant, and that most of the studies were carried out in English. As a result of bibliometric analysis, it was concluded that the most efficient countries in seamless learning were the United Kingdom, the United States, and Singapore. Also, it has been determined that the National Institute of Education, Center for International Education and Exchange, and Kyushu University institutions are dominant. The most frequently mentioned authors cited in studies in many different fields are M. Sharples, L.-H. Wong, and H. Ogata. According to the co-word analysis, the keywords seamless learning, mobile learning, ubiquitous learning, and mobile-assisted language learning stand out in the field of seamless learning.

Objective: This study analyses the research output in India in neurosciences during the period 1999-2008 and the analyses included research growth, rank, global publications' share, citation impact, share of international collaborative papers and major collaborative partner countries and patterns of research communication in most productive journals. It also analyses the characteristics of most productive institutions, authors and high-cited papers. The publication output and impact of India is also compared with China, Brazil and South Korea. Materials and Methods: Scopus Citation database was used for retrieving the publications' output of India and other countries in neurosciences during 1999-2008. Results: India's global publications' share in neurosciences during the study period was 0.99% (with 4503 papers) and it ranked 21st among the top 26 countries in neurosciences. The average annual publication growth rate was 11.37%, shared 17.34% of international collaborative papers and the average citation per paper was 4.21. India was far behind China, Brazil and South Korea in terms of publication output, citation quality and share of international collaborative papers in neurosciences. Conclusion: India is far behind in terms of publication output, citation quality and share of international collaborative papers in neurosciences when compared to other countries with an emerging economy. There is an urgent need to substantially increase the research activities in the field of neurosciences in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze India's publications on organic chemistry and related fields at the micro, meso, and macro levels. The study attempts to map and visualize the publications in organic chemistry from 2016 to 2020 to identify the country co-authorship, author co-authorship, bibliographic coupling of authors, keyword co-occurrence, etc. Performance analysis techniques incorporating publication-related metrics, citation-related metrics, and citation and publication-related metrics (number of cited publications, citations per publication, h-index) were utilized to analyze the publications. Further, science mapping techniques are used to investigate citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co-authorship analysis. Moreover, enriched bibliometric techniques meant for computational evaluation like network analysis, including cluster analysis and visualization, were used in later phases using the software VOSviewer and Biblioshiny. VOSviewer, a bibliometric mapping tool, is extensively used in scientometric studies. For analysis of performance and visualization of research hotspots in Organic Chemistry, Biblioshiny web interface through R-studio is used, which is performing intensive data mining. A total of 1804 journals are encountered in the period taken for study which obeys a non-exponential growth with the highest number of papers (370) in the year 2017 and the least (344) in the year 2020 and as per the forecasting, the highest number of publications are expected in the year 2021 (349). Analysis of prolific authors reveals that A Kumar is the most productive author in the period with 47 publications and an h-index of 12 and KR Prabhu of IISc. Bangalore is the most impactful author with 387 citations and 27.64 CPP. Journal of Organic Chemistry is the most productive journal. Trending topics of research like azo dyes and metal-organic frameworks indicate the industrial and commercial importance of organic compounds. No similar studies have been found with matching objectives with this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: Analyses the Indian publications output in glaucoma research during 2002-11 on several parameters including contribution & citation impact of top most productive countries, India's overall contribution, its growth pattern and citation impact, the share of international collaboration in India's overall research output, contribution of leading countries and identification of leading foreign collaborating partners, Indian contribution & impact of different types of glaucoma, glaucoma research by sub-fields and glaucoma research output by different population age groups, productivity and impact of leading Indian institutions and authors and pattern of communication of Indian output in most productive journals. Methods: The Scopus Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-11) by searching the keywords "glaucoma or intraocular pressure" in combined Title, Abstract and Keywords field. Results: The Indian publications output in glaucoma research consisted of 1078 papers during 2002-11, which increased from 61 papers in 2002 to 207 papers in 2011, witnessing an annual average growth rate of 18.29%. The average citation impact per paper registered by Indian publications in glaucoma research was 3.03 during 2002-11, which decreased from 3.87 during 2002-06 to 2.49 during 2007-11. The international collaborative share of India in overall glaucoma research was 21.06% during 2002-11, which increased from 17.92% during 2002-06 to 23.09% during 2007-11. Conclusions: The glaucoma's irreversibility, lacking of glaucoma specialists and patients unawareness demand for an economic and effective glaucoma diagnosis system for screening. Disease control and elimination require an adequately trained functional workforce with an enabling infrastructure and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review paper synthesizes peer-reviewed empirical research published between 2010 and 2021 about wildland fire communication practices. Our goal was to systematically review and provide an overview of how wildland fire communication has been empirically studied, and theoretical and methodological underpinnings and representativeness of this work. We found that researchers employ diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, yet most work originates from the western United States or Australia. Studies were published in diverse disciplinary journals, most frequently looked at residents as study subjects, and many sought to understand the effectiveness of communication. There is a need to build theoretical and methodological consistency in wildland fire communication research.

The paper examines 518 Indian publications on gallstones research, as covered in Scopus database during 2006-15, using various quantitative and qualitative parameters with a focus on its growth, citation quality, share of international collaborative papers, subject-wise distribution, identification of significant keywords, contribution and impact of leading organizations and authors, contribution of most productive journals and characteristics of high cited papers. The global gallstones research is dominated by top 10 most productive countries which account for 67.89% share of the global output during 2006-15. The USA is the world leader with its largest share of output (20.69% and 14.93%) in gallstones research, followed by U.K., China, India, Japan, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Turkey and Taiwan during 2006-15. India is ranked 4th top world country with its global publications share of 6.36%. India averaged citation impact of 6.28 citations per paper, international collaborative publications share of 7.14% during 2006-15. Medicine contributed the largest publication share (89%), followed by biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (19.11%), pharmacology, toxicology & pharmaceutics (6.37%) and agricultural & biological sciences (2.32%) during 2006-15. The top 15 most productive organizations and authors contributed 51.90% and 45.56% share to India's publication output and 62.14% and 82.51% share to India's citation output during 2006-15. The top 15 most productive journals contributed 32.66% share to its total Indian journal output during 2006-15. The top 15 high cited papers received 34 to 102 citations per paper and registered 48.27 average citations per paper. These 15 high cited papers involve 86 authors and 44 organizations and published in 15 journals. Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow contributed the largest number of papers (4), followed by Gem Hospital, Coimbatore (2), etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyses the research output of India in epilepsy research during 2002-11 on several parameters including the growth, rank and global publications share, citation impact, share of international collaborative papers, contribution of major collaborative partner countries, contribution of various subject-fields, contribution and impact of most productive institutions and authors, media of communication and characteristics of high cited papers. The Scopus Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-11) by searching the keywords "epilepsy research" in the combined Title, Abstract and Keywords fields. Among the top 20 most productive countries in epilepsy research, India ranks at 11th position (with 1550 papers) with a global publication share of 2.88% and an annual average publication growth rate of 15.31% during 2002-11. Its global publication share has increased over the years, rising from 2.06% in 2002 to 4.65% during 2011. Its citation impact per paper was 2.77 during 2002-11, which decreased from 3.48 during 2002-06 to 2.41 during 2007-11. Its international collaborative publications share was 12.32% during 2002-11, which decreased from 12.45% during 2002-06 to 12.26% during 2007-11. Concludes that India needs to increase both the quantity and quality of research and also the need to share research data and stimulate national and international collaborative research, which will increase both the quantity and quality of research in epilepsy. There is a need to develop a national program on epilepsy as a part of national health plan, besides suggesting the funding agencies to establish a more ambitious funding program into the causes, prevention, cure and care of epilepsy. There is a need to build capacity at all levels of human resources for the management of epilepsy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyses the 1293 Indian publications in cataract research during 2002-2011, with a focus on contribution and citation impact of 15 most productive countries, India's overall contribution, its growth, citation impact, the share of international collaborative papers, identification of significant countries in India's international collaboration, different types of cataract research, analyses of research by subfields and different population age groups, productivity, and impact of leading Indian institutions and authors and pattern of communication of Indian output in most productive journals. The Scopus Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-2011). Indian publications increased from 87 papers in 2002 to 195 papers in 2011, witnessing an annual average growth rate of 10.03%, registering an average citation impact per paper of 3.26 and international collaborative share of 21.58% during 2002-2011. Suggest that the government should encourage the decision makers and ophthalmologists and allied persons involved in ophthalmic services to make serious efforts in reducing the burden of cataract disease by increasing the R&D, strengthening of national and international collaboration and improve the existing training programs for ophthalmologic professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates comparative R&D status and performance of Haryana and India in life sciences, physical sciences, medical sciences, engineering sciences, and social sciences using bibliometric indicators. The data for the study was sourced from SCOPUS database covering the period 2005-14. The study revealed that Haryana registered faster growth (14.65%) in R&D output than the whole nation (11.91%). India's research base in R&D sector is 40 times bigger (781,392) than that of Haryana (19,464 publications). Haryana registered 2.49% national share in the total output by India during 2005-14. The national and international collaborative share of publications in Haryana's output were 19.96% and 11.23% during 2005-14. Life sciences accounted for the largest share (31.15%), followed by medical sciences (22.64%), engineering sciences (21.85%), physical sciences (19.42% share), and social sciences (4.95%). The most productive 25 organizations, 20 authors and 20 journals together accounted for 75.87%, 9.24% and 18.03% share respectively of the Haryana's research output during 2005-14. In the total output of Haryana, there were only 54 highly cited papers, which received citations from 100 to 1096. Together these highly cited papers received 10049 citations, with an average of 186.09 citations per paper. The leading institutions in highly cited papers were G.J. University of Science & Technology, Hisar (with 11 papers), Ranbaxy Research Labs, Gurgaon and CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (5 papers each), National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (4 papers), National Brain Research Center, Gurgaon and National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (3 papers each) etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the analysis of bibliographic data of 72,940 research papers published by six Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee) and indexed in Scopus database during the period 2006-2015. The analysis indicates that the relative citation impact of IIT Roorkee and IIT Bombay are more than other IITs. Works by authors from IIT Kharagpur are cited more than that of other IITs. Physics of Plasma, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, and RSC Advances are the journals most used by the researchers of the six IITs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the science and technology productivity of India based upon a survey of publication counts, with information on the country's scientific output over a period of five years. Topics include an analysis of the academic institutions with the greatest contribution to the overall publication output, a comparison of India's scientific productivity with that of China and South Korea, and the bibliometrics utilized in the survey including the number of indexed research papers and quality of content.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the functional attributes of the automated serials control systems of the libraries in seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and provide a comparative analysis. Design/methodology/approach: Features of the serials control modules of the library management systems (LMSs) in use in the central libraries of the IITs are thoroughly studied by logging into the respective systems. Findings: The paper finds that five IITs are using LibSys and two use Virtua and Troodon for their LMS. Virtua covers most of the functional attributes that comply with the international standards, LibSys has tried to incorporate the core functionality of serials control although the compliance of standards is limited, but Troodon is lagging behind. Originality/value: The recommended attributes of the automated serials control system will definitely act as guidelines for the libraries of the IITs to upgrade their existing systems and the developers of the respective library management system software will also take the necessary initiative to make their system fool-proof by resolving the identified drawbacks. (Contains 7 tables and 2 figures.)

The present study examines 579 Indian publications on "Migraine" research as covered in Scopus database during 2006-15, experiencing an annual growth rate of 17.37%, citation impact per paper of 8.32, international collaborative publication share of 9.80% and global publication share of 2.56%. The global publications share on "Migraine" came from several countries, of which the top 10 most productive countries accounted for 75.30% share of global publications output during 2006-15. A large number of Indian organizations and authors participated in Indian research on "Migraine" research during 2006-15, of which the top 15 organizations and 15 authors contributed 31.26% and 25.22% publications share and 70.50% and 23.50% citation share respectively of the Indian output and citations. Medicine, among subjects, contributed the largest publications (63.90%), followed by pharmacology, toxicology & pharmaceutics (34.72%), neurosciences (14.16%), biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (13.64%) and chemistry (3.97%) during 2006-15. Indian publications on migraine research appeared in several journals, of which the top 15 journals contributed 32.64% share of the India's output. The top 14 highly cited papers registered 53 to 1087 citations, and together contributed 2094 citations, leading to the average citation per paper of 149.57. Concludes that there is an urgent need to frame a national policy in this area, undertake more R&D and recognize migraine research as a public health problem and allocate more healthcare funds in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the articles published from 2004 - 2017 by Mother Theresa Women's University Kodaikanal, Tamilnadu. The data were retrieved from India Citation Index during the period. The study 122 publications were published by the university and the highest numbers of research papers 115 were published in the form of articles. Majority of the articles were contributed by two authors with publication of 33 articles and value of degree of collaboration was 0.992. This article tries to give a clear picture of the research performance at Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal based on the publication, which are indexed at Indian Citation Index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which examines Indian research publications on sago and tapioca between 1997 and 2010, analyzing the results in a global context from a scientometric standpoint. The objective of the study focused on Indian research exports, the characteristics of India's most prolific sago scholars, and the patterns of international collaboration on the papers. Other topics discussed include how researchers collected data from the Science Citation Index (SCI) for the project, charts documenting the publications of articles, reviews, and editorial materials, and a conclusion discussing the most productive research journals in India.

The paper analyses 116 high productivity organizations in Haryana using publications data as covered in Scopus international multidisciplinary bibliographical database from the last 10 years (2005-14). It identifies the overall strength and weakness of these high productivity organizations using various quantitative and qualitative indicators. It provides a comparative evaluation and performance of different type of organizations in Haryana, namely universities & colleges, research institutes, engineering colleges, medical, pharmaceutical & dental colleges, hospitals, industrial enterprises and non-profit organizations in terms of various indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The term "Telemedicine" is being used in the medical and health sector to treat patients and to provide medical guidance remotely. The intellectual output from India in terms of publications was harvested from Scopus ® with the keyword "Telemedicine" and analyzed by using bibliometric techniques., Methods: The source data was downloaded from the Scopus ® database. All the publications on telemedicine and indexed in the database up to the year 2021 were considered for scientometric analysis. The software tools VOSviewer ® version 1.6.18 to visualize bibliometric networks, statistical software R Studio ® version 3.6.1 with the Bibliometrix package Biblioshiny ® were used for analysis and data visualization, and EdrawMind ® was used for mind mapping., Result: India contributed 2,391 (4.32%) publications on telemedicine to a total of 55,304 publications worldwide until 2021. There were 886 (37.05%) papers that appeared in open access mode. The analysis revealed that the first paper was published in the year 1995 from India. Steep growth in the number of publications was observed in 2020 with 458 publications. The highest, 54 research publications, appeared in the "Journal of Medical Systems." The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, contributed the highest number of publications (n = 134). A considerable overseas collaboration was observed (USA: 11%; UK: 5.85%)., Conclusions: This is the first such attempt to address the intellectual output of India in the emerging medical discipline of telemedicine and has yielded useful information such as leading authors, institutions, their impact, and year-wise topic trends., Competing Interests: None

Background: The purpose of this study is to present a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues and the processes involved in research and publishing in India. The study examines the present ethical norms, guidelines, frameworks and developments in India, providing insights into the nation's current status of research and recommendations for publication. This document will be a useful starting point and reference document for those embarking on research and publication in Orthopaedics in India. Materials: A survey of the literature was done, which included scholarly papers, reports, rules, and policies pertaining to Indian publishing norms and research ethics. the document starts with a general introduction to ethics, followed by the evolution of ethics in research and the current International as well as Indian codes of ethics. Subsequently, the discussion is divided into two broad headings of ethics in research and ethics in publishing. Under each heading, there are many specific areas in orthopaedics that would require the application of a unique set of ethics. These areas are discussed separately as subheadings. Results and Discussion: The review draws attention to the complexity of ethical issues in Indian and international research and publishing in orthopaedics. Where available, specific guidelines about the topic in India or international guidelines are discussed. The importance of informed consent, data integrity, plagiarism, authorship disputes, and conflicts of interest are only a few of the key results. It is obvious that ethical norms and regulations, such as those offered by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and the Council of Publication Ethics (COPE) are crucial in determining how research is conducted and how papers are published. The types of studies discussed include research in humans and animals, research with stem cells, metal implants and devices, orthobiologics, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, computer modelling, virtual reality, 3D printing and bioprinting, tissue banking and data management. The roles of different personnel in research and publications are discussed. Conclusions: Ethics in research and publishing play a crucial role in establishing the authority and standard of scholarly work in India. This study underlines the key concepts of ethics that guide various types of studies and the publication process. It also highlights the requirement for frameworks and guidelines for certain unique areas of research in orthopaedics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to highlight the collaborative publication trend of library and information science (LIS) faculty members in the select central universities of north India. The data for the study was collected by questionnaire and from the websites of universities. A total of 1292 publications were published by LIS faculty during the period 1978-2014, out of these 854 are multi-authored publications. The study depicts that highest publications are contributed as double-authored. The co-authorship index is highest in 1991 i.e. 294.12 as singleauthored, in 1982 i.e. 153.85 as double-authored, in 1989 i.e. 219.78 as triple-authored and in 2014 i.e. 404.04 as ≥ 4 authored publications. Total authors involved in the publications are 2349. The highest MCC is in 2014 (0.46) and the lowest in 1991 (0). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The high-cited publications (HCPs) (with 50 or more citations) on orthopedic research from India were analyzed on various parameters. Methodology: The HCPs that were published between 2002 and 2021, on the Indian orthopedic research and indexed in the Scopus database were evaluated on various parameters. A network analysis was used to evaluate and visualize the collaborative interaction among the most productive organizations, authors, and keywords using VOSviewer and Biblioshyn software. Results: Of the total 4606 publications, 179 (3.88%) were HCPs, that were cited 22767 times (averaging 127.19 citations per publication). An external funding was received in 24.58% of publications and 36.87% of publications had an international collaboration. The most productive organizations were the Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru (n = 11), All India Institute of Medical Sciences - New Delhi, and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences - Kochi (n = 8 each) and the most impactful organizations in terms of citations per paper and relative citation index were Vellore Institute of Technology - Vellore, TIET - Patiala, and Lovely Professional University. The most productive authors were K. Chatterjee, D. Lahiri, and R. Vaishya. The most impactful authors were P. Mukherjee, S. Rajasekaran, and J. N. Babu in terms of citations per paper and relative citation index. Delhi was the epicenter of research and publications (n = 27). Material science and medicine contributed the largest number of publications (n = 77 and n = 73), followed by Engineering (n = 51). Treatment and clinical studies accounted maximally (24.58% and 8.38%) and hydroxyapatite (n = 40) was the most significant keyword appearing in the literature. Conclusion: This study provided an insight into understanding of research status including trends identified and studied the most influential contributions and performance of Indian organizations and authors and indicated broad and narrow subject fields contributing to this medical specialty. It gives some ideas about past, present, and future hotspots in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study mainly focuses on Indian research output in Lung Cancer, one of the leading causes of carcinogens and tumor promoters ingested via smoking. The data for this study was obtained from Scopus database for the period of 1984-2013. The analysis shows that majority (94 per cent) of the scientists preferred to publish research papers in joint authorship. In depth, this study analysed that USA is the major collaborating partner of India with a share of 24.66 per cent publications. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai is the most productive institution in India on Lung Cancer research. It has contributed 16.90 per cent of the total research output. Indian Journal of Cancer is the most productive journal of Lung Cancer research and it has contributed 8.65 per cent of publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Methods: The present paper examines 3042 Indian publications in colorectal cancer, as covered in Scopus database during 2005-2014, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 4.06% and citation impact of 3.91. Results: The world colorectal cancer output (171,518 publications) came from several countries, of which the top 15 (United States, China., Japan, U.K., Germany, Italy, France, etc.) together accounts for 90.64% share of the global output during 2005-2014. India's global publication share was 1.77% during 2005-2014, which increased from 1.13% to 2.27% from 2005-2009 to 2010-2014. India's international collaborative share in colorectal cancer was 19.56% during 2005-2014, which increased from 15.05% to 20.14% from 2005-2009 to 2010-2014. Only 68.01% publications were cited 1 or more times since their publications till February 2015. Medicine accounted for the largest share (58.12%) of output in colorectal cancer, followed by biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (34.62%), pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (29.26%), chemistry (9.60%), agricultural and biological sciences (4.80% share) and immunology and microbiology (3.68% share) during 2005-2014. Diagnosis, chemotherapy, surgery, and screening together account for 56.02% publications share among treatments methods used in Indian colorectal cancer research during 2005-2014 Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka together contributed 57.82% share in Indian publications output in colorectal cancer during 2005-2014. Conclusion: The authors stressed the need for developing national policy for colorectal cancer which should take care of screening for detection and diagnosis, management and treatment options of the prostate cancer patients in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article summarises the long academic journey of more than five decades by the author. Having served in five universities, taught under and post graduate students and monitored umpteen MSc, MPhil and PhD students, completed several Research Projects sanctioned by PL 480, ICAR, CSIR, UGC, Atomic Energy, Panjab Govt. AICTE, and other agencies. In a long sojourn he was decorated with several Fellowships, Awards, Hons and Letters of Appreciation. Published 48 books, authored nearly 450 research papers in journals of repute. Participated in several seminars held in India and abroad. He was President of several societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports the results of a study of the communication patterns of geophysicists in India, with emphasis on the role of foreign journals. The results are analyzed in terms of information transfer (publication) and information use (citation). (CLB)

Background: Dermatology is the science of the skin. In India, dermatology came into picture in the twentieth century. Today's dermatology practiced in India is the modern approach developed and established in western countries based on western medical theory, knowledge, experience, and results from study. Growth of dermatology field in India has progressed since two to three decades. This paper assesses the contributions made by India in the dermatology field by analyzing the total number of publications in top dermatological journals. Materials and Methods: SCImago Journal Rank indicator (2019) was used to search for top dermatology journals and publication metrics was recorded from respective journal websites. Simple statistics tools were used to determine the number of publications during this 20-year period. Results: From 1999 to 2019, there were 547 publications from India, in the top dermatologic journals. It was noted that, original research article contributes maximum number of documents (136). Journal of Dermatology had a maximum number of publications with 174 when compared to other journals. Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh' had a maximum number of publication (150). Conclusion: The last 20 years have seen a massive increase in the field of dermatology. Today, dermatology is a well-developed field in India. From 1999 to 2019, there is an increase in the trend of publications along with the collaborative publications in the top dermatologic journals. This show the encouraging trend in terms of publications from India in past 20 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indian surgeons have a substantial workload. But how much of it do we document and publish thus facilitating evidence-based practice? We undertook to document the contribution of Indian authors to the world literature in general surgery and to elicit the view of Indian surgeons regarding scientific publications. We carried out a search of articles in general surgical journals, published by Indian authors working in India. The journals chosen were those with an impact factor of more than 2. In addition, the Indian Journal of Surgery, with an impact factor of 0.55, was included as it is our flagship journal. The period of study was between January 2014 and April 2020. Additionally, a survey was carried out among the members of the Karnataka State Chapter of the Association of Surgeons of India. The survey was designed to elicit responses from surgeons regarding their attitude towards surgical publications. In American Journal of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery and Annals of Surgery only one original publication each was found. In Canadian Journal of Surgery and Journal of American Medical Association Surgery there were no publications in the study period. Surgeons put forth several reasons for this lack of publication culture—the main ones being lack of motivation, lack of data and lack of training to write. It is clear that Indian authors contributed to a minuscule number of papers in scientific surgical journals. The culture of publication must be inculcated from an early stage of surgical training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims to analyze the scientometric parameters for Indian Chemical Science literature. The paper analyses publications as reflected in Web of Science (WOS) database for the period 2005 to 2014 for identifying the scientometrics analysis of India in Chemical Science literature. It also gives a comparative evaluation and performance of different types of scientometric indicators. The publications in terms of quantitative aspects of publications, growth rate, doubling time, collaboration and productive journals of Indian chemical science has increased exponentially in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background & Aims: Diabetes and related metabolic syndromes represent a significant global health challenge, with the global burden of diabetes increasing considerably since 1990. In this article, we examined the trend of publications in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism between 1996 and 2021, focusing on Asian countries. Methods: We obtained and used the data from the Scopus database from the SCImago website (https://www.scimagojr.com/), on 1 April 2023, related to the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism for country rankings between 1996 and 2021. We did not include any data related to other medical specialties or other fields. Results: There has been a steady rise in global publications on these subspecialties over the past decade, with the number of publications from Asian countries increasing significantly. Western Europe recorded the highest number of publications, followed by North America and Asia. The COVID-19 pandemic also contributed to a surge in publications in this field. In Asian countries, China and India have notably increased their global contribution to publications, with China emerging as the top Asian nation in 2021. Conclusion: Our findings provide valuable insights into the research output from various countries and the productivity trends in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism-related research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Objectives: The most important responsibility of physicians is research - advancement of medical knowledge is the core on which the other responsibilities, patient care and research, are based. This study was planned to conduct a qualitative analysis of the major publications from the the country's leading medical institutions., Methods: We used Scopus to generate a list of total number of publications from the topmost institutions, the number of citations, and citations per article. We calculated the h-index, g-index, i-10 index, and h5-index for these institutions. A more detailed analysis was carried out for the top 20 most cited papers in each of the institutions. Only descriptive statistics were used., Results: Among the top 10 medical institutions included, AIIMS, Delhi and PGIMER, Chandigarh were the top institutes, accounting for more publications and citations than the next eight institutions combined. The other institutions also managed to publish a large number of highly-cited papers. AIIMS was the leading institution when other indices were calculated. Among the most-cited articles, >80% had first/corresponding authors from outside India. A large number papers remained uncited, even after many years of publication., Interpretation and Conclusions: Uncited papers could be a result research conducted with the purpose of getting the numbers needed for promotion (NNP). Importance of collaborative research was seen to be an important factor when citations are considered. Even with the huge resource deficit, our institutes managed to publish a decent number of highly cited articles, which can be boosted if funding situation is improved., (© Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2011.)

The published scientific literature's credibility is contingent upon a number of dynamic criteria, including the nature of the study, the type of journal, journal indexing and impact factor, all of which are susceptible to ongoing fluctuations. Many developing and some established nations utilize publishing point calculations as a performance indicator to offer promotions to postgraduate professors. To ascertain the periodontists affiliated with a dental college's level of familiarity with the Dental Council of India (DCI) point system and to provide a color-coded reference to periodontology periodicals. A structured questionnaire that was self-designed and made available using Google Forms was used for this cross-sectional study, which was carried out from February 2023 to February 2024 at the Department of Periodontology of an Educational Institution. Faculty members teaching periodontology participated in this cross-sectional epidemiological investigation. There were 428 full replies in all, and each one was assessed using an independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance with Tukey's post-hoc testing. A review of every article published in the subject of periodontology was done using a variety of databases. The journals that fall under the DCI categories were arranged and designated by color. Professors made up the majority of research participants (53.3%), followed by readers and senior lecturers (15.9% each). There were notable variations in the participants' understanding of the DCI points system depending on designation (p-value = 0.021). The majority of respondents stated that choosing a journal is based on the publication's index. 8.4% of respondents were unaware of DCI's points system for publications, with self-aware subjects showing higher knowledge scores. A color-coded guide was developed to eliminate bias in point calculation and aid academicians in selecting suitable journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes India's research output in rare earths on a series of scientometric indicators. India published a total of 11,838 publications in the area of rare earths in 10 years during 2005-14 registering an average annual growth of 11.38%, citation impact of 7.44 citations per paper, and accounted for 5.18% global publications in rare earths for the period ranking as the 6th most productive country in the world. The paper profiles 15 most productive countries in rare earths, 20 most productive organizations and 20 most productive authors on a series of indicators including global publications share, global citation share, average productivity, citations per paper, h-index, and share of international collaborative papers during 2005-14. The paper also identifies top 20 most productive journals reporting India's research in rare earths during 2005-14. Suggests the needs for developing a national policy for catalyzing R&D on rare earths research in the country, increased investments in R&D, identification of areas of strategic interest and identification of top R&D institutions wherein future research could be conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bibliometric analysis of articles published during the period of 2009- 2015 by University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India was undertaken, to reveal the year wise distribution of articles, citations, types of publications, prolific authors, preferred journals, authorship pattern and degree of collaboration. A total of 170 articles were published by the university and majority of the articles were written by more than three authors. Tatagar, M. (10; 6.47%), Kotikal, Y. K. (10; 5.88), Mesta, R. (10; 5.88%) were the most prolific authors for the period. Majority of the articles were contributed by the multiple authors and the value of degree of collaboration was 0.994. Environment and Ecology (23; 13.53%), Asian Journal of Horticulture (19; 11.18%), Karnataka Journal of Agricultural Sciences (10; 5.88%) were the most preferred journals by the scientists working in the UHS, Bagalkot for the publication of their research findings respectively [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliometric and scientometric techniques have been applied to present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the publication output of PSG College of Technology (PSGCT), Coimbatore. Data for the study have been collected from the Scopus database for the period 1971 to 2014. Among the 2357 papers published in the span of 44 years, highest number of 319 papers was published in 2012. 2112 papers (89.6%) were published during the last ten years i.e. from 2005 to 2014. Journal is the most preferred channel of publication with 1633 papers. 'H' Index of PSGCT is 41. This study reveals that PSGCT has largely contributed to research in science, engineering and technology and the publication output of faculty has increased considerably during the last 10 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes 1078 India's publications on suicide research during 10 years, i.e., 2005-2014, as indexed in Scopus International Multidisciplinary Database. The study focuses on the various aspects of performance of India's suicide research, such as the publication growth, citation impact, international collaboration, subject-wise distribution of publications, contribution and citation impact of Indian organizations and authors, medium of communication, and characteristics of its high-cited papers. This study reveals that India's research output on suicides research witnessed an annual average growth rate of 10.49%, registered an average citation impact per paper of 9.75, and a share of 16.23% of international collaborative publications. India's global publication and share to world suicide research was 2.47% during 1999-2014. Medicine contributed the largest publication share of 84.32%, followed by pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmaceutics and social sciences (19.94%), environment science (9.37%), biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (8.35% share), psychology (7.05% share), neuroscience (4.36% share), economics, econometrics, and finance (2.23% share), and immunology and microbiology (1.95% share) during 2005-2014. About 294 organizations and 356 authors participated in 1078 Indian papers in suicide research, of which the top 15 most productive Indian organizations and authors together contributed 36.18% and 17.44% publications share and 49.58% and 56.06% citation share to the India's publications and citation output on suicide research during 2005-2014. This study also suggests the need for taking up of measures at population, sub-population, and individual levels to prevent suicide and suicide attempts. Suicide is a complex issue and therefore suicide prevention efforts require coordination and collaboration among multiple sectors of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is the result of the examination of 1206 publications on Indian cloud computing research, as covered in Scopus database during 2004-13, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 25.51% during 2008-13 and citation impact per paper of 11.69. The world cloud computing research output (21316 publications) came from several countries, of which the top 10 countries (China, USA, Germany, India, UK, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Japan etc) accounted for 80.57% share of the global output during 2004-13. The major institutional contribution to cloud computing research comes from universities, followed by engineering colleges, institutes of national importance, industrial enterprises and research institutes during 2004-13. India's global publication share was 5.66% and occupied 4th rank in global publication output during 2004-13. The Indian cloud computing output comes from several organizations and authors, of whom the top 15 and 10 authors contributed 33.25% and 7.30%, share respectively during 2004-13. India's international collaborative share in cloud computing was 11.69% during 2004-13. Computer science accounted for the largest publication share (79.44%) of the output in cloud computing, followed by engineering (22.80%), mathematics (7.30%), social science (2.57%), etc during 2004-13. Suggest the need for the development of a cloud economy and the adoption of cloud services and build suitable policy and regulation to encourage migration of IT services towards the cloud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research evaluation based on citation data identifies excellence using quantity and quality proxies as the main orthogonal dimensions. Citation data are readily available from aggregators such as the Web of Science or Scopus in the form of number of papers P, number of citations C and h-index. However, most of the prestigious award-giving bodies, e.g. for the Nobel Prizes or for the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize in India, rely on rigorous peer evaluation rather than on citationbased performance. While peer-review judgements are holistic but also subjective, citation-based evaluations tend to be reductive and quantitative. In this study, we look at three of the most prestigious premier peer-review decision-making exercises in India, the SSB Prize, and election Fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru. By comparing the awardees and successfully elected Fellows against a list of outstanding citation-based top performers in the world, we report a marked field dependence with citation data predicting 0% to less than 40% of the peer-review selections depending on the field. This study highlights two mixed dangers: one of compressing performance to numbers in an essentially reductive process, and the other of the possible bias and prejudices involved in what is often a subjective peer-review process. Thus, type I and type II errors cannot be avoided in any peer-review or citation evaluation taken in isolation, and vary from as much as 100% to 63%, depending on the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present a bibliometric analysis of 1432 publications in Indian research in atypical antipsychotic drugs during 1998-2013, using publications indexed in Scopus database. The study identified the global publication share and rank of Indian research output among the 15 most productive countries and examined the distribution of citations of the Indian research output, the share of international collaborative publications in Indian publication output and identification of the leading India's collaborating partners, the distribution of Indian research output by broad subject areas, by individual drugs and by disease; publication productivity and the citation impact of leading Indian institutions; the media of communication and the characteristics of the high cited publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyses the Indian publications output in glaucoma research during 2002-11 on different parameters including contribution & citation impact of top most productive countries, India's overall contribution, its growth pattern and citation impact, the share of international collaboration in India's overall research output, contribution of leading countries and identification of leading foreign collaborating partners, Indian contribution & impact of different types of glaucoma, glaucoma research by sub-fields and glaucoma research output by different population age groups, productivity and impact of leading Indian institutions and authors and pattern of communication of Indian output in most productive journals. The Scopus citation database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-11) by searching the keywords 'glaucoma or intraocular pressure' in combined Title, Abstract and Keywords field. The Indian publications output in glaucoma research (1078 papers) during 2002-11 increased from 61 papers in 2002 to 207 papers in 2011, witnessing an annual average growth rate of 18.29 %. The average citation impact per paper registered by Indian publications in glaucoma research was 3.03 during 2002-11, which decreased from 3.87 during 2002-06 to 2.49 during 2007-11. The international collaborative share of India in overall glaucoma research was 21.06 % during 2002-11, which increased from 17.92 % during 2002-06 to 23.09 % during 2007-11. The glaucoma's irreversibility, lacking of glaucoma specialists and patients unawareness demand for an economic and effective glaucoma diagnosis system for screening. Disease control and elimination require an adequately trained functional workforce with an enabling infrastructure and technology. The authors suggest that research efforts needs to be strengthened quiet substantially by way of investment in R&D. Both research output and quality of research should be increased and strengthened and international collaborative research may further be widened to learn from the experiences of other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]