1st ICLIM - 2016
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Item A Bibliometric Assessment of the Intellectual Content and Recognition Level of the Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.U.; Weerasooriya, W.A.Bibliometrics enables quantitative description of scholarly documents, their impact and influence. This study explores “The Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF)”; a globally recognized journal where the objectives were to assess (1) the subject coverage, (2) types of information sources consulted by authors, and (3) total citations received by JNSF. Articles in 40 issues (n=335) published during 2004 and 2013 in two five-year periods; 2004-2008 (P-I) and 2009-2013 (P-II) were analysed separately. Among the 9 major disciplines identified, most articles were related to biology, and agriculture; particularly biochemistry, plant sciences, microbiology and animal sciences. Increased research has been carried out in the fields of chemistry, biomedical research, geo science and engineering. Physics and mathematics were narrowly studied. The subject diversity and inter-disciplinary research have increased by 19% and 10% respectively. Several new fields of research have emerged while research in some areas are lacking. JNSF contains 7043 in-text citations with 176.1 citations per issue whereas 20.8 citations per article with an average increased by 56.2% during P-II. Journal articles were the most-cited material incessantly, followed by books, proceedings and web-resources. Citing local references per volume has lessened by 4% whereas self-citation has declined to 1.14%. Most references (23%) lies within 6-10 years. The ‘price-index’ was 19.82 while ‘citing half-life’ for journals and books were 11 and 15 years respectively. JNSF has received 366 citations with an average of 3.02 per “cited article”. Citing of JNSF has improved from 19.87% (P-I) to 50.56% (P-II). Certain recent articles received early citations, especially within the published year. Most articles (38.84%) were cited once whereas the citations received were highest in the first 2, 3 years after publication, and a rapid decline observed after the 5th year. The results revealed the information needs of researchers, existing and deprived research areas, and recognition of JNSF in terms of citations.Item Research Collaboration in Indian Universities: A Bibliometric Analysis of Universities in Tamilnadu State(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Srinivasaragavan, S.; Dorairajan, M.This study examines the growth of Publications, Citation ranking, and h-index of Universities in Tamilnadu. Web of Science provides significantly more coverage of University publications and generate the Citations, Self Citations. During 1989-2016 Tamilnadu Universities have contributed 39336 Publications and received 3, 73,843 Citations. 288 papers are cited more than 100 times. The range of Self Citations is 5 Percent to 20 Percentage. An average citation per Article 9.50 was observed among Universities that are engaged in active research. The bibliometric/Scientometric studies are frequently used to assess the research publicationsand to analyze the growth of contributions and collaborations. The analysis reviews that “Anna University” has highest publications (9376) stake and secures first rank with highest citations (87426) and h-index (91), it is followed by “University of Madras” with 7962 publications and having citations of 75621 and h-index of 81. It is also found that “Mother Terasa University” at last position with a meager contribution of just 27 publications with h-index of 3 during the study period. Among the second phase universities funded by UGC, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli at top position with 3471 publications having 36621 citations and h-index of 70. It is also revealed that Bharathidasan University secured second position (6525) publications with a share of self-citations (17.82 %) while “Annamalai University” at top with 10,703 (19.05 %). This study also reveals that Gandhigram Rural University (16.54%) and Bharathidasan University (10.55%) are in first and second position in terms of highest average citation per article respectively. The highest individual citation for a research paper is 671, which belongs to “Anna University”, followed by Bharathiar University and Tamilnadu Agriculture University with 643 and 563 citations respectively for a single paper. It is also found that the collaboration between the conventional Universities is established. There is no collaboration between the professional Universities except “Anna University”. Bharathidasan University has highest collaboration with “Anna University” and “Madurai Kamaraj University”. This analysis also reveals that Anna University has highest citation of 8841 publications with 2389 research institutions from 63 countries and received research funding from 1533 from national and international agencies. It is followed by Bharathidasan University having collaboration with 1164 research organizations from 55 countries and received funding from 734 agencies. It is also known that all the surveyed Universities are having collaboration with hundreds of research institutes and received research funding except M.G.R Medical University.Item Highly cited Papers from Sri Lanka during 1989-2016(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Shanmugam, A. P.; Surulinathi, M.This Study identified prominent Authors, Institution, Journals used and papers published by Sri Lankan researchers during 1989–202015 and cited at least 100 times by end of 2015 are analysed. There were 136 papers with at least one author from Sri Lanka that have gone on to be cited at least 100 times. Sri Lankan scientists have place their papers in high impact factor journals such LANCET, Science and received huge amount citations. University of Peradeniya (11574 Citations for 36 Papers), International Water Management Institute (5084 Citations for 22 Papers), University of Colombo (3160 Citations for 21 Papers) are the prominent Sri Lankan Institutions. 136 papers are collaborated more than 130 countries and 1954 Institutions with National and International level. Dharmaratne, SD from University of Peradniya with 2279 Citations and collaboration with 118 Authors top list and second paper with 1671 Citations and collaboration with 196 authors followed by Markin, IW from IWMI with 1044 citation. Dharmaratne is predominant authors from Sri Lanka in terms of Citations. Six Authors are published 9 papers each and received 7042 Citations each. 172 authors are received more than 5000 Citations. 136 papers are received 30808 Citations and index in 90 journals. Collaborations papers are dominating the citations. The average citation paper per article is 223 and its shows strength of the research.Item Research Performance of Cloud Computing in BRICS Countries(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Raja, S.Research performance of BRICS countries has been studied using publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database core collection. “Cloud computing” as a search term in the address tag fetched 2537 records and the period of coverage from 1989 to 2016. The downloaded data were analyzed using MS Excel, VOS Viewer, and HistCite software applications. The analysis revealed that there are 6767 authors from among 5 countries; 623 journals; 9 types of documents; 2130 institutions; 63,005 times cited by local and global references. 93.9% of publications are scholarly articles. The highest productive year is 2015 (28.6%) (TGCS- 843) and lowest is 1991 (TGCS-25). Of the 73 countries, Peoples R China stands first, USA and India in the second and third places respectively. “International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing”, “IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems”, “Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience” are the most productive journals involved in this study. Among the 6767 authors, “Li J” has earned the highest publication. “Chinese Academy Science” and “Tsinghua University” dominate other institutions in terms of number of records. 63,005 cited references were measured from the data and most cited authors were “Armbrust M”, “BUYYA R”, and “Dean J”; most cited journals were “COMMUN ACM”, “FUTURE GENER COMP SY”, and “COMMUN ACM”.Item Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF), 2011 - 2015: A Citation Analysis(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pratheepan, T.; Weerasooriya, W.A.Citation analyses of research in developing countries are interesting for various reasons. The situation of Sri Lankan is rather exceptional.The Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF) is the only Sri Lankan journal; indexed by the Journal Citation Report (JCR) from2010.This paper provides a citation network analysis of publications from the JNSF. The analysis covers publications in the journal from 2011–2015. The paper analyses the most published authors, most cited articles, uncited articles, most prolific authors, top institutions, collaboration profile of authors, and the nationalities of authors, that are most represented in the journal. 441articles were taken from the primary data source, the Google Scholar using Publish or Perish (POP) software. An analysis of 1056 citations was carried out using the POP online analytics tool and Excel. Results indicate that the 60% of JNSF research publications have received minimum of single citation.There are 998 authors have been contributed for 441 articles published during the study period in JNSF. In terms of collaboration profile, the JNSF’s authors show preference for “mega – authored” papers. Only 114 (26%) papers were single authored. The most cited article is Mosquito-lavicidal activity of some Sri Lankan plants written by Ranaweera, SS. published in 2013.Item An Assessment of Indian Citation Publication Output: A Study on Indian Citation Index(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dhanakar, M.A.Indian Citation Index one of the pioneers in India to develop, preserve, disseminate and serve customized knowledge products and services to scholarly world.Indian Citation Index (ICI) is developed by "The Knowledge Foundation" (a registered society) with the required support of M/s Diva Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. Indian Citation Index. ICI provides a multidisciplinary research platform covering about 1000 scholarly journals from India. The ICI database also produces other useful byproducts like Indian Science Citation Index (ISCI), Indian Social Science and Humanities Citation Index (ISSHCI), Indian Journals Citation Reports (IJCR), Indian Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA), and Directory of Indian Journals (DOIJ).The ICI database enables access and empowers users to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to turns raw data/information into the powerful knowledge one needs. ICI feature makes this database a specialized information product and highly useful for researchers, policy makers, decision takers, editors, librarians and so on (ICI, 2016). Indian Citation Database has wide coverage of 5,38,100 number of articles documented in 935 publications with 9,969,332 references. It is also found that there are 24 major subject categories. In that Agriculture has 87 journals with 21303 articles followed by Anthropology has7 journals with 877 articles; Arts & Humanities has 7 journals with 1398 articles. Top five institutions from India are Indian Agricultural Research Institute IARI (5231), Punjab Agricultural University PAU (5801), All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi (AIIMS New Delhi) 5051, Annamalai University (4034), Tamilnadu Agriculture University (3958). The citations range from highest to lowest as covered by ICI. It is found that there is a gradual growth of literature covered by ICI over the years. The study limited only to ICI. It is not compared any other international database. It is found that there is a significant difference between the contributors, contributing agencies and the citation trends.