Suresh Kumar

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Principal Technical Officer 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...

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 present paper uses scientometric indicators to examine the Li-ion battery research in India as reflected through Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) data of 32 years (1989-2020). India produced 2864 publications during the period but the publication activity increased manifold during the last decade. The output was scattered among 1346 institu...

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 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...

The paper examines 718 dye sensitised solar cell (DSSC) research articles published by Indian scientists during 2011-15, which were indexed in Web of Science. It looked into the entire gamut of research performance by performing sectors, institutions, multifarious collaborative aspects, co-authorship and citations etc. Private universities figure a...

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...

Ministry of New & Renewable Energy announced policy for biofuel, starting from 20111-12, stating that 20% of the diesel demand would be met by biodiesel, primarily produced from Jatropha plant biomass. The objective of present study is to find out scattering of research literature by examining productivity of journals publishing papers on Jatropha...

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 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 study analyses the distribution of productivity of authors in the field of HCI research as reflected in their publication output from Science Citation Index-Expanded for 2006 to 2011. The purpose of this study is to test Lotka’s law of author productivity using the methodology outlined by Pao (1985) and compare it with the modifications suggest...

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...

Bradford's law is about scattering of literature in different information sources on a narrow subject. The present study serves as a test of the two formulations of Bradford's law, verbal and graphical, using 137120 articles published on Human-computer interaction (HCI) research in the journals index in Science Citation Index-Expanded during 1987-2...

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....

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 presents an analysis of the 1610 scientific papers produced by 18 animal science research institutes of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) during April 2009-March 2010. These publications appeared as journal articles (1039), conference papers (360), book chapters (171) and books (40). Of the 1039 journal articles, 62% were...

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 paper presents an analysis of the 1610 scientific papers produced by 18 animal science research institutes of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) during April 2009-March 2010. These publications appeared as journal articles (1039), conference papers (360), book chapters (171) and books (40). Of the 1039 journal articles, 62% were...

The research output of India in human computer interaction (HCI) research during 1987-2011 is analyzed in this paper on several parameters including total research output, its growth, rank and global publication share, citation impact. It also analyses the characteristics of most productive institutions, authors and high-cited papers. India is at 1...

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 tot...

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...

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 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...

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...

The paper discusses the application of three well-known growth models, namely exponential, logistic, and power to the growth of world literature in physics, chemistry, and electrical & electronic engineering research, as reflected in international databases in these three fields from 1907 to 1994. The growth models are classified and characterised...

The study analyses the distribution of productivity of authors in theoretical population genetics (TPG) as reflected in their publication output from 1881 to 1980 from two different approaches. The internal dynamics of TPG specialty affecting the distribution of the productivity of authors is studied using time cross-sectional type of approach. Her...

The main objectives of this study are: (a) to find the applicability of selected growth models to the growth of publications in six sub-disciplines of social sciences, namely anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology in the world; and (b) to verify the criteria for selecting the most appropriate growth model sug...

Lotka's approach was used to study the performance of different Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories in physical, biological and engineering sciences based on the productivity profile of scientists. The productivity profile of each laboratory, in terms of frequency distribution of scientists and their contributions was...

The paper examines the scientific productivity of male and female scientistts working in the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India at the overall agency level and at the group of laboratories level, characterized by three broad subjects of physical, biological, and engineering sciences. The productivity of scientists is evalua...

The paper deals with the nature of growth models currently used in the literature for modeling the growth of publications. It introduces briefly three growth models and explores the applicability of these models in the growth of world and Indian physics literature. The analysis suggests that the growth of Indian physics literature follows a logisti...

Examines the two types of research output of scientists varying in chronological and professional age of engineering sciences in India. The mathematical models of aging derived from the earlier studies have been tested in the two types of scientific and technical output in order to determine the linear and non-linear trends and the productivity rat...

The present study aims at determining the applicability of Lotka's law, negative binomial distribution and lognormal distribution for institutional productivity, in the same way as it is to authors and their productivity in the field of engineering sciences and the patents filed by industrial firms in laser S&T. The study indicates that non of the...

Recently scientists have investigated what statistical distributions can be used to describe the distribution of the number of authors per article.Ajiferuke has undertaken the most comprehensive study of this problem. He has found that by and large the Inverse Gaussian-Poisson distribution could describe most properly the observed authorship distri...

The paper assesses impact of Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) funding in chemical sciences during 1976–1989 using scientometric techniques. Other indicators like awards won, fellowship to prestigious academies, membership to editorial boards received by the project investigators, Ph.D. degrees awarded, collaborations established and...

Studies the growth of Indian and World physics literature from 1900-50. Explores the applicability of selected technology diffusion models to the growth of literature in Indian and World physics. Focuses on the applicability and validity of two forms of Lotka's Law and negative binomial distribution model to the cumulative author productivity data...

Traces the growth of collaborated and funded research as reflected in research papers in theoretical population genetics research speciality from 1916–80 through a case study. Analyses the proportion and extent of collaborated papers, averge number of authorship per paper, and collaborative coefficient index of research papers thereby giving an ove...