University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln November 2020 Research Contributions of Faculty members in State Universities of Tamil Nadu Jeyapragash Balasubramani Bharathidasan University,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Balasubramani, Jeyapragash and Anbalagan, Muthuraj, "Research Contributions of Faculty members in State Universities of Tamil Nadu" (2020). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 4546. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/4546 Research Contributions of Faculty members in State Universities of Tamil Nadu Dr.B.Jeyapragash1 Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Email :
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[email protected] Abstract This study focuses on faculty member’s research productivity in State Universities of Tamil Nadu. The faculty member’s details were collected from 8 State Universities such as Alagappa University, Annamalai University, Bharathiar University, Bharathidasan University, Madurai Kamaraj University, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Periyar University and University of Madras. The Research productivity data were collected from Web of Science Database. It is found that total 1949 faculty members in different positions are available in State Universities of Tamil Nadu. It is also found that Annamalai University has highest number (654) of faculty members when compared to other universities. It is further analyzed that Annamalai University has published 3375 publications from Web of Science database by the present faculty members.