InternationalINTERNATIONAL Journal of Library JOURNAL and Information OF LIBRARY Science (IJLIS), AND ISSN NFORMATION: 2277 – 3533 (Print), ISSN: 2277 – 3584 (Online) Volume 2,SCIENCE Issue 1, January (IJLIS)- June 2013, © IAEME ISSN : 2277 – 3533 (Print) ISSN : 2277 – 3584 (Online) IJLIS Volume 2, Issue 1, January- June (2013), pp. 34-47 © IAEME: www.iaeme.com/ijlis.html © I A E M E Journal Impact Factor (2013): 5.1389 (Calculated by GISI), www.jifactor.com SCHOLARLY PHYSICS OUTPUT OF SOME SELECTED CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES OF UTTAR PRADESH AND DELHI (2006-2010) Jayendra Kumar Singh Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005 Uttar Pradesh, India Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT The presents study aims at finding the scholarly physics output of central universities of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi during the year 2006-2010 as reflected by Web of Science. The study deals about the 1936 publication output of Indian Central Universities like University of Delhi (UOD), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), University of Allahabad (UOA), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) especially in the field of Physics. It examines the physics output of various universities under heading like document type distribution of publication, year wise growth of publication, to find out the most prolific authors of the universities & their ranking and to analyze the contribution of authors of central universities in International and National Journals. Keywords: Physics, Scholarly output, Central University, Web of Science. 1. INTRODUCTION Over the last three to five decade, India had widened growth and research output (in terms of publication output) in the field of Physics. A number of Universities and Research Laboratories were established for this purpose. Currently there are more than 44 Central Universities in India (www.ugc.ac.in [1]). Out of these 44 Central Universities, the research output of most of the universities in the field of Science and Technology (especially in the field of Physics) are less or not at all. Publications which are accessed through web or databases like Web of Science or Scopus are called scholarly publications. The research output of Universities in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh was taken for study during the period 2006- 34 International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS), ISSN: 2277 – 3533 (Print), ISSN: 2277 – 3584 (Online) Volume 2, Issue 1, January- June 2013, © IAEME 2010.The research output in the field of physics is highest in University of Delhi followed by Banaras Hindu University. Scientometric study portrays the scientific productivity, research output, trends and emphasis of research in a discipline of any scholarly publications. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW A number of studies have been done during the last three decade to evaluate the research output/productivity of Central Universities in the field of Physics. Many Scholars have studied about the research output of physics in Indian central universities. A number of studies have been done by Gupta, B. M & Dhawan S. M to evaluate the research output in the field of Physics in India.(Dhawan, S. M 1988 [2], Dhawan, S. M., & Gupta, B. M 2007[3], Gupta, B. M., & Dhawan, S. M. 2009[4] etc). Pichappan, P studied about the core journals of science stream in 1995 [5]. Barun, T et al 1994 [6], Bhattacharya, S, Singh, S. P. & Sudhakar, P 1997 [7] and Bonilla Calero, A I 2007 [8] etc) studied about the productivity in the field of physics in terms of author productivity, literature growth & subject distributions and their citations. Nagpaul, P. S. in 1995 studied about the contribution of Indian Universities in the science stream [9].In 2010, Husain, S and Mustaq, M studied about the ranking of Indian Central Universities in science and technology field [10]. 3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The major objectives of the present study during the period 2006-2010 are: To find out document type distribution of publications To study the year wise distribution of the publications To indicate top 10 prolific authors in terms of productivity count To find out source titles in terms of no. of publications 4. METHODOLOGY The data presented in this paper have been accessed from Web of Science published by Thomson Scientific. The basic data relating to total publications during 2006-2010, has been collected in the month of February 2013 using Web of Science. The search strategy used for collecting data for Banaras Hindu University was as follows: “Organization Name =Banaras Hindu Univ.” and “Year Published=2006-2010”. Further these search was refined by “Research Area=Physics”. The same strategy was used to collect data for other central universities only by changing name of the university. All the searched results were saved in text files and then imported into Micro Soft-Excel to organize, analyze and generate the tables, graphs and charts for final study. 5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Table 1 shows total publication output and physics output by the various Indian Universities during the period 2006-2010.The total publication output of these five central universities viz Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), University of Delhi (UOD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and University of Allahabad (UOA) was 11857 during the period 2006-2010. 35 International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS), ISSN: 2277 – 3533 (Print), ISSN: 2277 – 3584 (Online) Volume 2, Issue 1, January- June 2013, © IAEME Table 1 Publication share and rank of Indian Central Universities in the field of physics output Total Sl. No. University Publication Physics Output Rank output 1 UOD 3722 668 1 2 BHU 3778 612 2 3 UOA 1120 245 3 4 AMU 2031 235 4 5 JNU 1206 176 5 Total 5 Universities 11857 1936 Out of 11857 publication output, highest number of publication was contributed by BHU (3778 publications), followed by UOD (3722 publications), AMU (2031 publications), JNU (1206 publications) and UOA (1120 publications). Further these search was refined by the “Research Area=Physics” for each central university. UOD topped with 668 publications (34.50%) followed by BHU with 612 publications (31.61%), UOA with 245 publications (12.65%), AMU with 235 publications (12.13%) and JNU with 176 publications (9.09%). This is also shown in Fig 1. Total Publication output Physics Output 4000 3722 3778 3500 3000 2500 2000 2031 Output 1500 1120 1206 1000 668 500 612 245 235 176 0 UOD BHU UOA AMU JNU University Name Fig 1 Total Publications output vs. Physics output contributed by various Indian Central Universities 36 International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS), ISSN: 2277 – 3533 (Print), ISSN: 2277 – 3584 (Online) Volume 2, Issue 1, January- June 2013, © IAEME 5.1 Document type distribution of publications Table 2 shows distribution of document types. The articles were found the most common used document with 1906 publication ( 98.45%) followed by review with 19 publications (0.98%), correction with 6 publications (0.30%), editorial material with 4 publications (0.20%) and letter with 1 publication (0.05%). Table 2 Types of Document Types of Document S. Universities Editorial Total % No. Article Review Correction Letter Material 1 UOD 655 8 2 2 1 668 34.50 2 BHU 604 6 2 612 31.61 3 UOA 241 2 1 1 245 12.65 4 AMU 233 2 235 12.13 5 JNU 173 1 1 1 176 9.09 Total 5 Univ. 1906 19 6 4 1 1936 100 % 98.45 0.98 0.30 0.20 0.05 100 Fig 2 shows that the highest number of used document type was articles with 1906 publications while the least used document type was letter with only one publication. Types of document Editorial Material, 4 Correction, 6 Review, 19 Letter, 1 Article Review Correction Editorial Material Article, 1906 Letter Fig 2 Types of document 5.2 Year wise distribution of publication Table 3 depicts the year wise distribution of publication output by the Indian Central Universities during the year 2006-2010. Total 1936 papers have been published by these five Indian Central Universities during the year 2006-2010. 37 International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS), ISSN: 2277 – 3533 (Print), ISSN: 2277 – 3584 (Online) Volume 2, Issue 1, January- June 2013, © IAEME Table 3 Year wise distribution of publication Year S. No Universities Total Rank 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 1 UOD 107 137 113 127 184 668 1 2 BHU 110 102 105 141 154 612 2 3 UOA 40 40 51 50 64 245 3 4 AMU 36 35 44 58 62 235 4 5 JNU 20 30 44 37 45 176 5 Total 5 Univ. 313 344 357 413 509 1936 % 16.16 17.76 18.44 21.33 26.29 100 The maximum number of publications has been published in the year 2010 contributing 509 publications (26.29%) followed by 413 publications (21.33%) in the year 2009, 357 publications (18.44%) in the 2008 and 344 publications (17.76%) in the year 2008. The least number of publications 34 was published in the year 2006(16.16%). This shows an increasing trend in each year. This is also shown in Fig 3. Year wise distribution of publications 200 184 154 141 UOD 150 137 127 113 107110 102 105 BHU 100 UOA 6462 51 5058 40 40 4444 45 AMU 50 36 3530 37 20 JNU Publication output 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Year UOD 107 137 113 127 184 BHU 110 102 105 141 154 UOA 40 40 51 50 64 AMU 36 35 44 58 62 JNU 20 30 44 37 45 Year Fig 3 Year wise distribution of papers UOD= University of Delhi, BHU=Banaras Hindu University, UOA=University of Allahabad, AMU=Aligarh Muslim University, JNU=Jawaharlal Nehru University 5.3 Most prolific authors of the Indian Central Universities Table 4 gives the rank list of top 10 prolific authors of the Indian Central University in terms of productivity count and their affiliations.