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Item Mapping the Bird Flu Research Output: A Bibliometric Study.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Duraipandi., R.; Kamble, V.T.; Devendrappa.Bibliometrics is a method of study to analyze and measure the quantitative output of all branches of sciences and social sciences, which directly related with library and information science. Bird Flu is a severe, often fatal, type of influenza that affects birds, especially poultry, and that can also be transmitted to humans which indexed by Web of Science online database, indicates that the publication output in the global perspective. This study analyses the 669 records published by scientists on Bird Flu during 2000-2015(16 years). The highest numbers of papers were published during the year 2006 with 158 records with (23.6%) with top rank and followed the year 2005 with 101(15.1%) of publications ranked at second. Overall 1412 authors were contributed 334 publications in the journal and cited reference with 9710 records of the articles. The word wise distribution is 1783 records of in the bird flu research with the LCS 204; GCS 6589.Item Film Radio Television Research Publications: A Global Perspective.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Subbiah, M.The study analyses the film radio television in Global for a period of twenty-four years (1993-2017) based on the Web of Science database core collection. The objective of the study was to perform a Scientometric analysis of all film radio television research publications by Global scientists. The parameters studied include the growth of publications and citations, relative growth rate and doubling time, national and international collaboration, highly productive institutions, highly productive authors, highly preferred journals and highly cited publications. A total of 194 publications were published by the Global scientists in film radio television during 1993-2017 which received 825 citations (without self-citation 801). The highest number of publications 37 was published in 2016. RMIT University topped the list with 28 publications which received 55 citations. Australia is a top producing country with 69 publications (35.6%, TLCS 4, TGCS 123). H-index 12; citation per item 4.23Item Influence of Age, Gender and Academic position in Scientific Productivity: A Large-Scale Analysis of Sri Lankan University Academics.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Pratheepan, T.; Weerasooriya, W. A.It is well known that there are large differences in the scientific production between academics. Relatively small proportion of academics or scientists contributes to the majority of the publications. There are factors influencing in scientific performance of researcher. Objective of this study is to investigatepublication rate of Sri Lankan academics in the university system by the gender, age and position. These factors are important variables when analyzing scientific productivity at the individual level. In the analysis, all academics were assigned to five major fields. The study was considered 4,300 academics in 14,550observations (i.e. publication numbers per years). Thus, there are on average almost three observations per person analyzed.Non-publishing personnel have not been included in the study as only people who have published article online or available in Google Scholar. This may be regarded as a limitation of this study as the inclusion of the non-publishing researchers could possiblyincrease the publication rate differences between genders, age groups and positions.Publication output has been measured as article equivalents per person per year. In this calculation, co-authored publications are fractionalized among the authors. Study identifies the relative importance of the different factors based on regression analyses (OLS) of each major academic field. Finding shows that academic position is more important than age and gender. In the fields analyzed, the regression model can explain 13.5–19 per cent of the variance in the publication output at the levels of individuals. This also means that most of the variance in publication rate is due to other factors.Item International Research Publications on Education in Sri Lanka: A Scientomeric Study.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Navaneethakrishnan, S.; Raja, S.; Kupeshan, R.Quantitative studies of scholarly communication activities tend to have a better understanding of phenomena of construction, dissemination and use of scientific and technical knowledge. Nowadays scientometrics is considered as a standard tool of science policy and research management. It is also realized that this is the opportune time for the library professionals to study the current trend of Sri Lankan education system in the view international scholars to identify the role of the libraries in fulfilling the obligations specified in these research studies. This study was carried out with the intention to analyze the international research publications on education in Sri Lanka. The process of selection of publications was utilizing scientometric approach of research publications indexed by the web of science (WoS) database. Quantitative research methodological approach was taken, based on scientometric analysis. Results of this study shows a total of 201 publications were released by the Global scientists in education during 2010-2016 which received 4873 citations. The mean number of publications per year was 16.57%. It states that globally 9.45percents of items were from lone authors, pursued by 16.42% authors by double authors etc. 0.91 percent of collaborative author’s articles released throughout the study periods. The value of a mean RGR of publications which declined from 3.32 in 2010 to 0.32 in 2016, simultaneously the values of doubling time (Dt) of publications expanded from 0.21 in 2010 to 3.04 in 2016. The high frequency keywords were “Sri lanka” 109 (54.2%, TCLS 14, TGCS 332). The foremost cited quotation is Katulanda P, 2008, diabetic med, V25, P1062, DOI 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2008.02523.x. The suggestion of this research is to setup an enabling environment for more studies across the nations on Sri Lankan education and international researchers need to be encouraged on this.Item Global Perspective Research Productivity on Swine Flu: A Scientometric Study.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Duraipandi, R.; Aravind; Rao, N.Scientometrics is a method to measure quantitative output of all branches of sciences and social sciences. Today, it is very popular area of study in library and information science. An analysis of 958 publications published by scientists on Swine Flu during 1991-2014 (19 years) which indexed in Web of Science universal Database indicates the publications in the global perspectives. Swine Flu is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of pigs, caused by one of the several strains of swine influenza A. The virus is spread among pigs by aerosols, through direct and indirect contact, and also by asymptomatic carrier pigs. The highest numbers of papers were published during the year 2009 with 270 (28.2%) records and ranked at top; the year 2010 has scored 243 (25.4%) and the year 2011 has scored 187(19.6%) of publication and ranked at third. Overall, 3172 authors were contributed 501 publications in the journal and cited reference with 16467 records of the articles. The average citation per item is 9.43 and the h- index is 44 with LCS 583; GCS 8983; CR 16467.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.