Susanta Koley’s scientific contributions

Dr. Abdul M (Abed) Chaudhury allies Abed Chaudhury is a scientist of international reputation. He is an Australia-Bangladesh based gene scientist with a sound knowledge in genetics, crop breeding, molecular biology, human nutrition and biotech. Recent past, he is the pioneer of ‘Panchabrihi, -yields five times, a new rice cultivation method, a revolutionary innovation to agricultural research. This study is based on his 68 publications brought out during 1984-2023, throughout 40 years of his research career. It shows various aspects of his career. It tries to draw a scientific portrait of the scientist analyzing several bibliometric indicators. From the collected data of his biography and bibliography of research publications, this study quantitatively assesses the contributions of the scientist highlighting year wise growth of research products, authorship patterns, author productivity, research spectrum and co-authors, leading collaborative authors, scattering of publications in various communication channels, his most preferred journals, and relationships with degree of collaboration. It counts Citation Growth Rate according to citation received, uncited indexes and Relative citation impact in different Abstracting and Indexing Journals. Annual Growth rate, Relative Growth rate, and doubling time are also enumerated in this study. It also examines whether the data set follows Lotka’s Law and Badford’s Law or not.

Dr. Subhas Mukherjee (Mukhopadhyay), Bengalee Physician cum Medical Scientist, is a pioneer of IVF in India, a late recognized pioneer of Asia’s as well as India’s first and world’s second test tube baby. This bibliometric study draws a painful story of late recognition and of defeat in the competition for the Nobel prize. It also analyses on his biographical facts and his 99-publications published during the period of 1957-1981 with 124 co-authors. He has 22 single authored and 73 multi-authored papers. His highest publication is 10.5 (54.55%) per year during 1972-76 when his age range was 42-46 years and second highest productivity is 21(21.21%) papers per year during 1967-71 when his age was between 37-41 years. He generated the highest papers 16 in collaboration with his closet collaborator D L Podder, during the period 1972-76. He mostly preferred Proc. Ind. Sc. Cong. (25 papers) for his publications. The most frequently used key terms Human (19) times followed by Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG) (12), Rats (10), Infertility (8), Pregnancy (7). Finally, it shows that data set does not follow Bradford distribution.