Iranna M Shettar

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Deputy Librarian at National Institute of Technology Warangal

The study aims to compare the scientific impact of two factors, Open Access publishing and international collaboration, on research publications in the Engineering subject domain. The study is limited to comparing the citations received by the publications by Indian authors in Engineering subjects published between 2011 and 2020 as indexed in the W...

QR codes are two-dimensional matrix barcodes. Last decade witnessed a steady growth in commercial and business oriented usage of these QR codes with the advent of smart and web capable mobile phones. But the movement of using QR codes in Library & Information field is still in its primary stage. This paper explains application of QR Codes in Librar...

ICT has transformed traditional publishing into electronic publishing. As a result, eBook has become an integral part of modern library collection. This survey-based paper attempts to know the awareness, acceptance and usage patterns of the Central Library users community of NITK. Paper also verify eBooks features of users likes and dislikes along...

The study analyzes the research productivity and collaboration trends of National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK Surathkal) during 2010-2019 as indexed in the Web of Science database. A total of 2,405 records were published over a period of ten years and have received 24,456 citations. The indicators used for the study are: the...

The study examines the research productivity of the National Institutes of Technology established in India. Further, it ranks the NITs based on TP, TC, ACPP, h-index, Impact of Collaboration, Impact of Internationally collaborated publications, authorship pattern etc. To retrieve the data, the Web of Science database was used for the period from 20...

Objective. This study aims to analyze global cyber security research using various scientometric indicators for 25 years, from 1999 to 2023. Design/Methodology/Approach. The study used the Web of Science international citation database to retrieve a total of 5,640 records. The records were extracted in the CSV file format and further analyzed using...

The prime objective of the present study is to analyze the impact of open-access publishing on research publications in data visualization journal research papers using scientometric indicators and science mapping techniques. A total of 9,018 publication records were extracted from the Scopus database for five years, from 2018 to 2022. The paramete...

In an era marked by unprecedented technological advancement and rapid globalisation, effective research information management (RIM) plays a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of scientific inquiry, innovation, and knowledge dissemination. The Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS) stands as a beacon of excellence in this domain, of...

The primary aim of the present study is to analyse the publications’ productivity of ‘Heat Waves’ Research at the global level. The publication records (2,715) were extracted from the Web of Science database for twenty years from 2004 to 2023. The parameters used for the present study are publications and citations trends, most prolific authors, or...

The primary aim of the present study is to analyse the publications' productivity of Green Energy Research at the global level. The publication records (1367) were extracted from the Web of Science database for thirty years from 1993 to 2022. The parameters used for the present study are publications and citations trends, most profilic authors, org...

Objective. The study presents scientometric research on the scientific literature on COVID-19 associated with Pulmonary Embolism indexed in the Web of Science database. Design/Methodology/Approach. The study analysed 1307 bibliographic records published between 2020 and April 10, 2023. The authors analysed the publication and citation data for the...

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are the premier higher educational institutes dedicated to the education and research in the field of Engineering and Technology in India. The present study analyses the research productivity of 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India. A total of 69,771 records were extracted from the Scopus...

This study aims to analyze the open-access research productivity of Indian authors in the field of veterinary sciences published during 2011-2020. The authors examined 2,52,275 indexed literature on veterinary sciences in general and 2,500 records particularly by the Indian authors as indexed in the Scopus database. The analysis was carriedout usin...

“Open Education” is a new pedagogical phenomenon in academia, mainly due to the emphasis on digital communication and network based distribution of education. The present study aims to study the growth and pattern of global literature on Open Education published between 2001 and 2020. The authors analyze 1,119 bibliographic records on “Open Educati...

The study analysed 3092 global publications on the theme 'Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Economy', based on data extracted from the Scopus database during 2020-21. The authors identified key participating countries, organisations, authors and journals and studied their collaborative linkages. The structure of the field has been depicted by identi...

Introduction- Open Data is a new phenomenon in the research field, which is the next level of the open-access movement. In the current information age, data holds enormous value in any research to validate research findings. Purpose- The purpose of the present study is to analyze the global research trends and patterns in the "Open Data" research...

The Web Impact Factor (WIF) is a quantitative indicator based on link frequencies that was developed by Peter Ingwersen in 1998. The present study uses the webometric tools and indicators to analyse the websites of Indian Institutes of Technology in India. The parameters used for this study are, simple WIF, self link WIF, External link WIF, Back li...

The present study deals with the authorship trends and collaboration pattern in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universities, Andhra Pradesh (united). The research publications data of 3 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universities located in Anantpur, Hyderabad and Kakinada were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database managed by Clarivate A...

The Open Educational Resources (OERs) have become significantly important in education system worldwide due to the emphasis on the online teaching-learning process. The present study demonstrates the growth of global literature on Open Educational Resources for the period 2004-2020. A total of 1,751 records were extracted from the Scopus Database f...

This paper deals with the scientometric analysis of the scholarly literature on Convalescent Plasma Therapy, or simply Plasma Therapy, indexed in the SCOPUS database from its first publication to 2020. In this study, 1,722 bibliographic records were analysed, published in 545 journals by 9491 authors from 6046 organizations located in nearly 175 co...

NITs between 1999 and 2018 varied from 0.88 to 0.98. The lowest CI was recorded in the year 2000 (2.66), and the highest CI was recorded for the year 2016 (3.62). The Collaborative Coefficient (CC) ranges between 0.538 and 0.637, with an average rate of 0.626. Out of 16,049 (41.69%) journal articles, 1125 (2.92%) are single-authored, and 14,924 (38...

This paper deals with the scientometric analysis of the global literature on Hydroxychloroquine as indexed in SCOPUS database from its first publication in 1946 to 2020. The objective of the study was to perform a scientometric analysis of Hydroxychloroquine publications. The study analyzed 25,163 publications which were contributed by 88,834 indiv...

The study presents the pharmacology research output with particular reference to the top ten Asian countries for the period of thirty years (1988 – 2017) using various Scientometric indicators. The data for the study were retrieved from the Web of Sciencedatabase for the period between 1988 and 2017. The outcomes of the study reveal that with 3.24...

The present study analyses the world research output on Coronavirus using various Scientometrics indicators. Bibliographic records for the study were retrieved from the Scopus, a multidisciplinary citation database for publications till 31st December 2019. The study analyzed 18,116 publications (from its first publication in 1951) from 1951 to 2019...

The emergence of Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) has changed the way of scholarly communication. Each of these ASNS brings unique feature for the researchers. The authors study the awareness and use pattern of full-time research scholars of NITK through a survey-based study. The present study restricted to select four ASNSs Academia.edu; Me...

The present paper deals with a Scientometric analysis of the world literature on MOOCs for the period from 2009 to 2017. The data for the study was extracted from the Scopus database. A total of 1701 publications were retrieved for a period of nine years. The results of the study reveal that more than half of the publications are Conference papers...

In the present paper an attempt has been made to assess the academic rankings of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India. The main objectives of the study are to measure the growth of publications of the National Institutes of Technology; to identify the NIRF rankings of NITs; to measure the collaboration and h-index; to compare the NITs...

Libraries, the temple of knowledge, plays a significant role in the educational system. Due to the technological developments and ICT applications has drastically changed the user's information needs and Information formats. Library marketing can play a vital role to bridge this gap and raise the library usability. The present study gives a brief i...

This research paper highlights the current state of scientific research in National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITKS) Surathkal, Mangalore for the period 2001-2017. The study gives an analysis of the volume, productivity and scientific impact of NITK Surathkal research as per the records entered in the SCOPUS publications and citation datab...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the global scientific outputs on eBooks research using Scopus database Design/methodology/approach This study collected literature published during 2001-2016 from the Scopus database. Following keywords were employed: “eBook*”, or “e-Book*”, or “electronic book*”, or “online book*” in title or key...

It's been over a while since print resources started to be replaced by electronic resources, and the user community has adjusted to reading electronic articles. With the e-resource revolution, usage was projected to grow with peer-reviewed information available at the user's fingertips. Yet, challenges in promoting resources still exist, and many l...

Smart phone has brought many revolutionary changes in human day to day life. Libraries are also forced to adopt smart phone based library services. QR Codes are the handy solution to bring smart phone based library services. This paper provides brief introduction to QR codes, how to create and read and a brief comparison between barcodes and QR cod...

Globalization of knowledge requires immediate access to information by users regardless of place and time. Due to the dynamic nature of information and the impact of ICT (Information & Communication Technology), the concept of the library is gradually changing. In addition, information explosion takes place due to research and development. So, for...

Library profession is in a period of transition. Moving from conventional library sources and services to the modern technology and tool based sources and services, created changes in the roles they play. To provide more and more innovative services and to cope with the changing scenario of the library and its services forcing library professionals...

This is a study on the role of Public Libraries in the promotion of informal education with special reference to City Central Library, Hubli-Dharwad, Karnataka. The present study shows that majority of users were men between the age group of 18 – 25 years and they included employees, students, Pensioners and housewives who visit the library daily....

The paper makes an effort to identify Facebook Page as tool of library marketing and way to connect with library users. This paper examines the effectiveness of the Facebook as social networking site. With increase in number of smartphone users and Facebook being the most used SNS in India, Library has to create its SNS identity to reach Users and...

Knowledge Management has gained increased significance since the emergence of knowledge economy. It aims to leverage the intellectual assets of any academic institutes for learning and research activities. Empowering through knowledge is possible only through the proper sharing and networking of knowledge and knowledge assets. Libraries facilitate...

The present study explores the publication trends of scholarly papers in D-Lib Magazine. D-Lib Magazine is a bimonthly online electronic journal in the field of Library and Information Science. The study examines the bibliographic analysis of papers published in D-Lib Magazine during 2009-2013, including the volume-wise distribution of articles, au...

QR codes are 2-D matrix barcodes. Last decade witnessed a steady growth in commercial and business oriented usage of these QR codes with the advent of smart and web capable mobile phones. But the movement of using QR codes in Library & Information field is still in its primary stage. This paper explains the potential role of QR Codes in managing an...

The paper briefly touches about the digital technologies and copyright-related issues. The issues and concerns of librarians in the face of the intellectual property laws in digital media are highlighted. Characteristics of copyright implications with digital technologies and its adverse impact on knowledge society and library services are discusse...

The paper briefly touches about the digital technologies and copyright-related issues. The issues and concerns of librarians in the face of the intellectual property laws in digital media are highlighted. Characteristics of copyright implications with digital technologies and its adverse impact on knowledge Society and library services are discusse...

User education is an essential service of any kind of library. It helps users to understand various library resources and services. With the advent of Internet, the way and the format in which it is being delivered has changed. In this paper, an attempt has been made to discuss various Internet based services, which can be used to provide user educ...

Knowledge Management is a newly emerging, interdisciplinary business model that has knowledge within the framework of an organization as its focus. Knowledge Management has now become a mainstream priority for any of the organization. This article gives brief introduction about Knowledge Management, its need, definition, components, Assets. It also...