Kailash chandra Garg

• PhD
• Principal Investigator at National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research

The study aims to present a bibliometric overview of 1,278 papers published in the Journal of Documentation in a period of 24 years from 2000-2023 for chronological distribution of output, variation in impact factor and SCImago ranking of the journal. Using the method of complete count, the study examined the citation impact of the prolific countri...

The study compared the bibliometric parameters of scholarly communications published in COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics & Information Management (CJSIM) and Journal of Scientometric Research (JSR) from 2012 to 2021. Different bibliometric parameters examined in the study are pattern of output during 2012 to 2021, identification of most prolific c...

The study compared the bibliometric parameters of scholarly communications published in COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics & Information Management (CJSIM) and Journal of Scientometric Research (JSR) from 2012 to 2021. Different bibliometric parameters examined in the study are pattern of output during 2012 to 2021, identification of most prolific c...

Acoustics research has played an important role since ancient times. However, a systematic analysis on this aspect in Indian context is not properly given attention. The present study is an analysis of 2873 publications, India has published in the domain of acoustics during the period of 2010-2021. With mere 2.6% publications in this domain, impact...

The study examines the change in pattern of impact factor and SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) of the journal under study from 2008 to 2021 besides examining the pattern of growth of the number of papers. The study identified the most prolific actors (authors, institutions, and countries), besides examining their citation impact in terms of citation p...

The study examines the change in pattern of impact factor and SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) of the journal under study from 2008 to 2021 besides examining the pattern of growth of the number of papers. The study identified the most prolific actors (authors, institutions, and countries), besides examining their citation impact in terms of citation p...

A total of 587 documents were published during the study period, of which the majority were original research articles. Analysis revealed that during the study period, contributions from 35 countries including India were published in the journal. Maximum contributions from India were from the state of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The study also foun...

An analysis of 456 papers published in IJCA and 548 papers in IJCB during 2015-2020 indicates that the average number of articles published per year was 76 in IJCA and 91.3 in IJCB. Academic institutions from India and abroad were the major contributors to both the journals, however, their share varied in the two journals. India and China were the...

This study is carried out to understand dynamics of the journal using scientometric indicators. In this regard an analysis of 2,623 records published in Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research during 2001-2020 found that the share of articles published was highest (90%) followed by reviews (5%) and proceeding papers (1.9%). The chronological...

The paper analysed 699 papers published in Library & Information Science Research (LISR) during the period of 1994-2020. Google Scholar was used to obtain the number of citations received by these papers until April 30, 2021. The study examined the geographical distribution of published articles and also identified prolific institutions and authors...

An analysis of 465 theses accepted by the Zoology department of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) during 1954-2018 indicates that the number of theses accepted during the period of study has increased steadily. The highest number of theses was accepted during the fiveyears block of 1980-1984. Of the 465 accepted theses, 315 were submitted by male...

The study compares 365 papers published in special issues with 545 papers published in regular issues of the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) during 1992-2019 in terms of their geographical distribution, prolific institutions and authors and the impact of their output as well as the citation pattern of papers. The findi...

An analysis of 5,703 theses accepted by 54 Indian State Agricultural Universities in 2018 and indexed by Krishikosh, a digital repository of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) indicates that male scholars produced more than half of the theses at different levels of education, i.e. M.Sc., M.V. Sc., M.B.A., M. Tech and Ph.D. However, at M...

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of 267 papers published in 13 volumes (2007-2019) in COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management (CJSIM). The analysis examines the chronological distribution of output and the geographical distribution of contributions, identified prolific institutions and prolific authors and examined t...

The study analyses papers published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) using bibliometric techniques for the period of 1992-2019 (28 years) and citations received by these papers until 20 th March 2020 as reflected by Google Scholar. The study examined the pattern of growth, geographical distribution of the articles; i...

The study analyses papers published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) using bibliometric techniques for the period of 1992-2019 (28 years) and citations received by these papers until 20 th March 2020 as reflected by Google Scholar. The study examined the pattern of growth, geographical distribution of the articles; i...

The present study makes a bibliometric analysis of 9450 papers published during 2009-2018 which were indexed by Science Citation Index core collection in the sub-discipline of land degradation research. Of the 9450 publications, 97% were journal articles and reviews. The pattern of output indicates a consistent growth of output of research publicat...

The article presents an analysis of coverage and overlap of 1601 scholarly journals, magazines and trade journals indexed by four English language biblio-graphic databases, namely Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Library Literature and Information Science Index (LLISI), Information Science and Technology Abstracts (IST...

An analysis of 241 papers published in Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science during 2007-2018 indicates that the number of papers published as well as the reference per paper has increased in later years as compared to the initial years. The share of single authored papers decreased and multi-authored papers increased during the seco...

Bibliometrics and scientometrics in India: an overview of studies during 1995-2014

An analysis of 595 documents produced by Dr Hari Chand Sharma indicates that about 45 per cent of these were published as journal articles. Most of the research papers were published in journals originating from the UK, the USA and the Netherlands in medium impact factor journals. He has produced majority of his publications in collaboration with o...

An analysis of 902 papers related to scientometrics and bibliometrics, published in select Indian and foreign journals by Indian authors during 1995-2014 indicate that out of 789 authors, 169 (21.4%) were women authors and remaining 620 (78.6%) were male authors. Papers authored by women scholars during 2005-2014 increased more than twice as compar...

An analysis of primary documentary sources indexed by Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) and Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) indicates that LISTA indexed 519 and LISA indexed 327 primary documentary sources. These sources mainly are scholarly or academic journals, magazines and trade journals. As proporti...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the quantum of research papers and the citations these papers received for the plant Jatropha curcas Linn. Design/methodology/approach Articles published on Jatropha curcas Linn during 1987–2016 were downloaded from Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) by using the keyword Jatropha* on October 18...

An analysis of 4168 research papers on male breast cancer (MBC) published by different countries and indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded during 2005-2014 indicates that only 15% of the papers were non-collaborative and the rest were published either in domestic or international collaboration. The sub-field of MBC had a high proportion of dom...

An analysis of 17,344 papers published by Indian scientists and indexed by Web of Science in the discipline of organic chemistry during 2004-2013 indicates that collaborative coefficient has increased during the later years (2011-2013). Of the total published papers, 6312 (36.4%) were due to domestic and international collaboration. The share of pa...

This part of the study highlights the contents of the published articles in terms of various disciplines or sub-disciplines and the bibliometric aspects discussed in these articles. The analysis of 902 papers published by Indian scholars during 1995-2014 indicates that the main focus of bibliometrics/scientometrics is on assessment of science and t...

The study presents a bibliometric analysis of 270 papers presented at the international conference “Information Technology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” organized by the Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Center (DESIDOC), Delhi, of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) during February 19-21, 2015. The study indic...

An analysis of 2428 papers indexed by Indian citation Index during 2004-2015 indicate that the pattern of growth of Indian library and information science literature has been highly inconsistent with highest number of papers published in 2010. Academic institutions contributed about 86% of papers. Prolific institutions contributed about 44% of the...

An analysis of 801 papers published in the area of bibliometrics and scientometrics during 1995-2014 indicates a steep increase in the number of papers published by Indian researchers as compared to the number of papers published during 1970-1994. This indicates a growing interest of Indian scholars in scientometrics and bibliometrics. The paper pr...

The present study provides a detailed bibliometric analysis of 1286 papers published in Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK) during 2002-2015. The analysis of data indicates that the flow of articles submitted to the journal has declined during the later period. The papers published in the journal were contributed by authors from 24 count...

Publishing in scholarly peer-reviewed journals causes long delays from submission to its subsequent publication. This may be due to the long peer-review process or backlog of manuscripts waiting in line in the journals. The present study examines the publication delay in 13 journals published by CSIR-NISCAIR at three different stages. These were de...

The paper analyses publication output of India on cereal crops as reflected by its coverage in Scopus international database during 1965-2010 in gaps of five years. Analysis indicates that highest number of papers (40%) was published on rice, followed by wheat (29%). Agricultural universities and institutions under the aegis of Indian Council of Ag...

The present study examines editorial gatekeeping in journals published by CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (CSIR-NISCAIR) in terms of their distribution by locations, affiliations and by gender. The study observes that the editorial board members are located at places which are centers of Indian science and...

An analysis of 5334 papers published by institutions located in the State of Odisha and indexed by Web of Science during 2010-2014 indicates a constant rise in the output of the state. The output was concentrated among 16 institutions which contributed about three-forth of the total output. Highest number of papers was published in the area of phys...

An analysis of 755 papers published by Indian scholars in the area of bibliometrics/scientometrics during 1995-2014 indicates a steep rise in output as compared to the output in 1970-1994. The main focus of research is on bibliometric assessment of India and other countries followed by cross national assessment and bibliometric analysis of journals...

The aim of this study is to examine the time lag between the receipt of paper and its subsequent publication in the journal, the structure of the IPR literature, type of documents cited by the papers and identification of core journals in the field of IPR using Bradford’s law. The study also identifies the place of origin of the cited journals and...

An analysis of 17,344 papers published by Indian scientists and indexed by Web of Science in the discipline of organic chemistry and its sub-disciplines during 2004-2013 indicates that the Indian output has increased significantly in the later period. Academic institutions contributed about 46% of the total output followed by the Council of Scienti...

The paper analyses publication output of India on cereal crops as reflected by its coverage in Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) and CAB Abstracts during 1965-2010.The analysis indicates that highest number of papers (43.80%) was published on rice, followed by wheat (24.28%). Agricultural universities and institutions under aegis of Indian Council of...

The study presents an analysis of citation pattern of Ph.D. theses in social sciences awarded by the University of Delhi during 1995-2008. The study identifies how the pattern of submissions has changed during 1995-2008 in different disciplines of social sciences, besides studying distribution of citations by document types, pattern of authorship o...

An analysis of 35,640 papers published by Indian scientists as journal articles and reviews in journals indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) in 2008 revealed that 6231 (17.5%) papers remained uncited during 2008-2013. Most of the uncited papers were published by State Agricultural Universities and the Indian Council of Agricultural Re...

The study presents an analysis of the number of articles published in Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) during 2010-2013 and the citations obtained by these articles during 2010-2014 (April) using Google. The study develops immediacy index and impact factor of the two...

An analysis of 2074 papers indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded and published by different countries on various aspects of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) during 1991 to 2010 indicates that JE is a highly collaborative discipline as judged by the values of co-authorship index and the collaborative coefficient for different countries and different...

An analysis of 9,957 papers published by Indian scientists and indexed by WoS in 12 sub-disciplines of life sciences during 2008–2009 indicates that academic institutions produced the highest number of papers. Of these, 340 (3.4 %) were contributed by female scientists exclusively and 4,671 (47 %) were written jointly by male and female scientists....

The paper analyses scientific output of India in the discipline of crop sciences as reflected by the coverage of scientific output in three different databases i.e. SCOPUS, CAB Abstracts and ISA (Indian Science Abstracts) during 2008-2010. The analysis indicates that highest number of papers was published on rice and wheat crop. Agricultural univer...

This paper analyses 605 papers published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights during 1996-2012, which indicates that the inflow of papers has increased during the period of study. This is an attempt to find the popularity of journal among the scientific community as well as policy makers. The study shows that number of references per pape...

An analysis of 5317 articles and reviews published in 46 Indian science journals indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) during 2006 indicated that these journals predominantly published domestic papers. About 40 percent of the papers published in these journals were cited in the international literature during January 2006-June 2009. The...

The paper examines the coverage of environment-related issues published in 31 prominent English-language Indian newspapers in terms of their quantification and thematic representation. Among all the topics discussed under environment, climate change and global warming got the highest priority with 75% items which constituted more than two third (77...

An analysis of letters published by top 10 publishing countries in journals indexed by Science CitationIndex Expanded (SCIE) during 1987-89, 1997-99 and 2007-09 indicates that the letters published bydeveloped countries including China have declined as proportion of their total output. The number ofletters published by Indian scientists has remaine...

The present paper explores biomedical research coverage in the Indian English-language newspapers. Science and technology coverage in the Indian English-language newspapers revealed dominant representation of biomedical research. The research reported was mainly from foreign sources, mostly performed in US, UK and other developed countries of Europ...

The paper examines the coverage of S&T related items published in selected Englishlanguage Indian newspapers in terms of their quantification and thematic representation. S&T is not the priority of the English-language newspapers in India. Even sports get several times more coverage than science. There is a case for amply visible representation of...

Various methods have been suggested in the literature to normalise the impact factor of journals. However, these methods have their own limitations. Present communication suggests a simple alternative method to normalise the impact factor of journals based on average impact of journals.

Analysis of 32,574 papers published by USA, UK, China, India and Brazil in the field of 'plant genetics and breeding' research during 2005-2009 indicates that USA produced the highest number of publications followed by China. The impact of research output as seen by the values of different impact indicators is highest for UK. The sub-domains of emp...

An analysis of 2899 papers published by Indian scientists during 1991-2008 and indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) indicates that the growth of publication output was slow in the initial stages, which started increasing after 2000. The highest output was in the sub-field of molecular genetics. The organisms which received the maximum...

An analysis of 2566 papers published during 1987 to 2008 and indexed by Science Citation Index - Expanded indicate a gradual rise in the quantum of output. About 80% of the papers appeared in journals originating from USA. the UK, the Netherlands, France and Germany. Total output came from 74 countries of which 17 countries contributed 87% of the t...

An analysis of 2566 papers published during 1987 to 2008 and indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded indicate a gradual rise in the quantum of output. About 80% of the papers appeared in journals originating from USA, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Germany. Total output came from 74 countries of which 17 countries contributed 87% of the tot...

Analysis of 18,224 papers published by 3439 institutions in 445 Indian science journals and abstracted by Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) during 2006 indicates that major publication output came from academic institutions followed by state agriculture universities and medical colleges. Among the state agriculture universities, Punjab Agriculture Uni...

K.S. Krishnan Marg (Pusa Gate), New Delhi 110 012 Examination of 2450 papers published by foreign authors in 284 Indian science journals from 1311 institutions spread over 102 countries indicates that Asian countries are the largest contributors to these journals. Turkey, USA, Iran, China and Nigeria contributed to about 48% of the total foreign-au...

This study evaluates malaria vaccine research carried out in different parts of the world during 1972-2004 using different bibliometric indicators. Data have been downloaded from PubMed for the period 1972-2004 using the keywords (malaria* or plasmodium or falciparum) and (vaccine*) in the title and abstract fields. The study examined the pattern o...

An analysis of 2,183 papers published by Chinese researchers and 1,034 papers published by Indian researchers in the field of plant-based medicine during 1990–2004 and indexed by Pub Med indicates that China's output is more than twice to India's output. Medical universities and colleges mainly contribute to China's output, while academic instituti...

An analysis of 369 items published in Mausam during 2003-2006 indicates that 72% items were papers, 23% letters to the editor, 4% report on "Weather in India" and the rest 1% as articles. Indian researchers belonging to India Meteorological Department contributed most of the items. Climatology, agricultural and environmental meteorology, synoptic m...

The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), an organ of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, promotes research in new and emerging areas of science and engineering by way of extending financial support to different agencies. During the financial year 1999-2000, SERC provided financial support amounting to ap...

A detailed assessment of Indian patenting activity over the period 1990-2002 was undertaken by (a) examining patents granted by the US, European and Indian Patent Office; (b) delineating patents under various types, i.e. entity-wise (Indian organizations, foreign R&D centres in India, resident individuals), proprietary protections (utility, design,...

Summary An analysis of 16891 publications published by Indian scientists during 1993-2002 and indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) indicates that the publication output in the agricultural sciences is on the decline since 1998 onwards. 'Dairy and animal sciences' followed by 'veterinary sciences' constitute the largest compo...

An analysis of 11067 papers published by Indian scientists and indexed by Scie/lce Citatio/l!Ili!ex (SCI) CD-ROM for the year 1997 indicates that academic institutions (universities and colleges) are the major contributors to the scientific publications output. Major contribution came from 29 institutions, which contributed about 45% of the total I...

An analysis of2275 papers on malaria research published in journals and indexed by Commonwealth Agricuitural Bureaux International (CABI) CD-ROM incorporating Tropical Diseases Bulletin (TDB), and Pub Med Medline (web edition) in 1990 and 2000 indicates that the Science Citation Index (SCI) covered only about 68% of the output indexed by CAB! and P...

Summary An analysis of 330 questionnaires received from project investigators funded by AICTE indicates that project investigators preferred to present their research results at conferences rather than in national and international journals. Impact of funding has been better on human resource capability development as compared to research and techn...

Summary An analysis of 2058 papers published by Chinese authors and 2678 papers published by Indian authors in the field of computer science during 1971-2000 indicates that India's output is significantly higher than the Chinese output. However, China is catching up fast. Chinese researchers prefer to publish their research results in domestic jour...

We examine here the option exercised by students at 10 + 2 level for science subjects vis-à-vis accounts and economics for a 11-year period, from 1992 to 2002 based on the data obtained from the Central Board of Secondary Education, and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. For study at the graduate level, enrolment data were obta...

An analysis of 1317 papers published in first fifty volumes during 1978 to 2001 of the international journal Scientometrics indicates the heterogeneity of the field with emphasis on scientometric assessment. The study indicates that the US share of papers is constantly on the decline while that of the Netherlands, India, France and Japan is on the...

An overview is given of the studies published in the international journal Scientometrics during 1978-2000 on cross-national, national and institutional scientometric assessment.

An analysis of 1223 papers published by India (347papers) and China (876papers) at conferences and in journals during 1993 and 1997 in the field of laser S&T indicates that China"s output was twice to that of India. However, Activity Indices for both the countries in 1993 and 1997 were almost the same. Chinese scientists preferred to publish in dom...

An analysis of 952 publications published by Indian scientists and abstracted by Journal of Current Laser Abstracts during 1970-1994 indicates that laser research in India picked up during 1978-1994 and reached its peak in 1980. The Indian output in the field of laser research forms an integral part of the mainstream science as reflected by the pat...

An analysis of 3174 papers published in journals in the field of laserscience and technology indicate that only 401 papers were single authoredand the rest 2773 were co-authored papers. Of the 2773 papers, only 687 werewritten in local (inter-departmental), domestic (inter-institutional) andinternational collaboration. As reflected by the values of...

An analysis of 766 publications by prolific authors in scientific journals indicate that prolific authors produce about 25% of the total scientific output in periodical literature in laser science and technology. The average productivity per author is about 2. Prolific authors from most of the countries belonged either to academic or research insti...

The paper investigates Indian organic chemistry research activity during 1971–1989 using Chemical Abstracts. It attempts at quantification of national contribution to world efforts, and identify areas of relative strengths and weaknesses. Also models the growth of Indian organic chemistry output to world organic chemistry output as a whole and in s...

News items on science and technology in English-language newspapers published in different parts of India during January-December 1996 were analyzed. Results indicate that the greatest proportion of newspaper space was devoted to nuclear science and technology, followed by defense, space research, and astronomy. The Pioneer, The Hindu, and The Time...

Numbers of patents cannot indicate the state of research or the contents of patent documentation cannot indicate the true technological features achieved. Patent statistics though so used, is not a good indicator of the economic returns to investments in research. Use of this statistics for understanding the degree of competition and the competitio...