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    Mapping the Research output on Seismic studies: An Inter-Continental metric study
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jeyshankar, R.; Vijaianand, S.; Ramasamy, K.
    Quantitative study of a particular discipline has been and become the core area of metric studies in the inter-disciplined Library and Information Science research arena. The present study presents a metric analysis of global seismic research output for the period 1996-2015. The data is collected from Scopus Database. A total of 1, 63,821 publications were contributed by 163 countries with the per capita productivity of 1005. The data were exported to MS Excel for analysis. The study reveals that :European continent tops the list with 58190 documents (35.51%) followed by Asian continent with 55, 513 (33.88%) documents and North American Continent with 35764 (21.83%) documents.There is no correlation between number of countries in a continent and number of records. 42 countries in European continent have contributed 58190 documents altogether. Italy is in the first position with 8807 (15.13%) documents followed by UK with 8744 (15.03%) documents and France with 8068 (13.86%) documents.47 countries of Asian continent have produced 55510 documents leaving the per capital productivity to be 1181 documents. China tops the continent list with 50.52% (28046) of total Asian seismic research output followed by Japan with 7276 (13.11%) documents and Russian Federation with 5289 (9.53%) documents.Six countries in the continent have published 6823 documents. Australia, being the leader, has a lion’s share in the seismic research with 4735 (69.40%) documents. A total of 7289 records on seismic studies were published by 12 countries of South America. Brazil is the most productive country with 38.47% (1650) of total South American seismic research output followed by Argentina with 1012 (23.60%) documents.35 countries of African continent have published 3275 documents with a per capita productivity of just 81.88 records. South Africa is the most productive country in the continent with 838 (25.59%) publications followed by Egypt with 755 (23.05%) publications.USA, the most prolific country on seismic research, has 79.79% (28320) of total North American seismic research output followed by Canada with 5578 (15.60%) documents.United States is the most prolific country with 28320 publications constituting 23.64% of total seismic productivity followed by China with 28046 documents (23.41%). These two countries alone have contributed 47.05 % of world research output on seismic studies.
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    Websites of Universities in South India by Alexa Inlinks: A Webometric Analysis
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jeyshankar, R.
    Metric studies like librametrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics are well known. Newer concepts and methods are being developed in the Metric study in Library and Information Science. One such newest method of studying the inlinks of the university is ‘Sites Linking In’ or Inlinks of Alexa, the Web Information Company. The study was designed by collecting the number of inlinks of websites of universities for the four states viz, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. The data collected by providing the website of the university in the ‘Sites Linking In’ column in the website of Alexa, the outcome was explored to rank the website by MS Office Excel and through SPSS to find Cross Tabulation, Mean, Descriptive Statistics, and one way ANOVA were calculated. In Tamil Nadu, 5 universities namely AMET University, Bharath University, SASTRA University, Saveetha University and Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University were ranked with above 1000 Alexa Inlinks. In Andhra Pradesh, 5 universities such as Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Kakinada, Kakatiya University, Mahatma Gandhi University, Sri PadmavatiMahilaVishwavidyalayam and Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University were ranked with above 1000 Alexa Inlinks. In Karnataka, 6 universities were ranked with above 1000 Alexa Inlinks. They are Indian Institute of Science and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Gulbarga University and Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University. In Kerala, no university is ranked with more than 1000 Alexa Inlinks. Moreover, there is significant difference between the Types of Universities with their Inlinks is prevailing. State Government Universities need to concentrate on their website issues in order to get more inlinks from other such websites.