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    A bibliometric analysis of COVID -19 research papers indexed in SCOPUS: Comparison of Sri Lankan context with Global context
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Krishanthy, S.; Santharooban, S.
    ealth burdens and the socio-economic crisis are the unprecedented global effect of the pandemic caused by novel Coronavirus. As numerous research papers have been published on COVID-19, bibliometric evaluation for valuable information is crucial as it helps to identify suitable researchers and institutions for appropriate consultancy and suitable journals for publication. This study aims to bibliometrically analyse the medical science-related COVID-19 research papers indexed in SCOPUS, and compare the Global and Sri Lankan context. Therefore, highly cited articles, most impactful authors and journals, most prolific and productive country, and co-authorship by country were analysed. The data were mined from the SCOPUS database. SCOPUS analytic was used to analyse initial results and VOSviwer software was used to analyse citation and co-authorship. “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” was the most cited article in the global context, and “Enhancing immunity in viral infections with special emphasis on COVID-19: A review” was obtained the highest citation in the Sri Lankan context. Y. Liu, was the most impactful author internationally, whereas Priyanka Ranasinghe was the most impactful author in Sri Lanka. The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine were the most impactful journals globally and locally, respectively. China was the leading country, whereas the United States was the country that had the largest co-authorships link strength and produced the highest number of publications. The Sri Lankan authors highly collaborated with the USA, UK and Australia. Hence China is in the leading position in the case of the researches on COVID-19. In Sri Lanka, review articles with meta-analyses are mainly produced and this type of article receive the highest citations.
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    The Impact of Emotional Intelligence of Teachers in Higher Education on Student Engagement: Evidence from National Universities in Sri Lanka
    (9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Welmilla, I.; Krishanthy, S.
    Student Engagement has emerged as a central theme in a context of Higher Education in recent years. So there is a great consent towards it. Due to several factors undergraduates are diverted and disengaged consequently especially the state universities of Sri Lanka currently experiencing this issue. Even there are many factors impact on student engagement this study explored the significance of teachers with their emotional intelligence competencies for getting student engagement. University students are prefer to take student centered teaching where it is possible if only teachers are ready and capable to take account of students interest, needs and perspectives on adaptation with their teaching approach. Having understood the phenomenon above the current study designed to investigate the Impact of Emotional Intelligence of teachers in Higher Education on Student Engagement based on students’ perspective. This is an explanatory study data collected from the sample of 255 undergraduates selected from three state universities in western province of Sri Lanka on which convenience sampling method was adopted. Finding reveal that students are engaged but not actively and as per the students’ point of view lecturers are just good rather excellent enough on emotional intelligent competencies. However there is a positive strong relationship as well as have significant positive impact of emotionally intelligent teachers of higher education on student engagement. Ultimately it is concluded that higher educational teachers require and have to expand substantial amount of skill on emotional intelligence further then the active student engagement can be ensured, thus it is not a profession limited to only technical skills