Scientometric Assessment of State Universities of Uttar Pradesh: A Study Based on Scopus Database

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  • Muzamil Mushtaq Dr. Muzamil Mushtaq,Guest Faculty Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202001 India. Email: naikoomuzamil[at]gmail[dot]com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37591/joals.v1i3.2588

Abstract

Abstract
To assess the research performance of state universities of Uttar Pradesh in science and technology field, the present study analyzed all the 23 state universities of the state in Scopus database from 2006 to 2010. All the universities were searched in the database using the “affiliation search” and it was found that only 11 universities were indexed by the database. It was revealed that the University of Lucknow is the top ranked university in the state, followed by Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University. It was also found that out of the eleven universities, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology was the least productive university in science and technology in the selected period of study. The study further analyzed the various research patterns of the publications like the yearly distribution, subjects areas covered, document types used, languages used for communication, etc. Besides, it gives the top 50 ranked list of journals and the most prolific authors of these universities as well.

Keywords: Science and technology, scopus, scientometric, research output, Uttar Pradesh, research assessment

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Published

2014-12-22

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 3 (2014)

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Research Article

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