CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Online Publishing @ NISCAIR Annals of Library and Information Studies Vol. 65, March 2018, pp. 7-42 Bibliometrics and scientometrics in India: An overview of studies during 1995-2014 Part II: Contents of the articles in terms of disciplines and their bibliometric aspects K.C. Garg a and H.K. Tripathi b aFormer Chief Scientist, CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS), Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110012, India, Email:[email protected] bSenior Technical Officer, ICAR Library, Pusa Campus, New Delhi 110012, India, Email: [email protected] Received: 18 July 2016; revised: 08 March 2018; accepted: 21 March 2018 This part of the study highlights the contents of the published articles in terms of various disciplines or sub-disciplines and the bibliometric aspects discussed in these articles. The analysis of 902 papers published by Indian scholars during 1995-2014 indicates that the main focus of bibliometrics/scientometrics is on assessment of science and technology in India in different sub-disciplines including contributions by Indian states and other individual countries followed by bibliometric analysis of individual journals. Papers dealing with bibliometric laws received a low priority as compared to other sub- disciplines of bibliometrics/scientometrics. The analysis of data indicates that the share of theoretical studies using mathematical and statistical techniques which were missing in the earlier period (1970-1994) has increased during 1995- 2014. The field of medicine as a discipline received the highest attention as compared to other disciplines. Keywords : Scientometrics; Bibliometrics; Content analysis; India Introduction 7. Studies related to collaboration; 1,2 In Part I of the study authors discussed about the 8. Studies related to doctoral dissertations; Indian output in bibliometrics/scientometrics and its impact. It also identified most prolific institutions and 9. Models of growth; and authors and examined their impact in terms of 10. Theoretical studies citations per paper and relative citation impact. The present study examines the bibliometric aspects of The studies which could not fit into the above 10 902 papers published during 1995-2014. The categories have been clubbed together under others. complete list of papers is available at Annexure 1. An analysis of data indicates that highest number The bibliometric aspects have been categorized into (23%) of articles dealt with bibliometric assessment 10 different sub-disciplines. These are: of individual countries including India. This was 1. Cross national assessment in different disciplines; followed by studies on bibliometric studies of individual journals and cross national assessment. The 2. Assessment of science and technology in India in share of each was 18.7% and 14.9% respectively of different sub-disciplines including contributions the total output. Thus, these three categories by Indian states and other individual countries; constituted more than half of the output. Rest of the 3. Assessment of institutional output under different output was scattered in other seven sub-disciplines sectors like academics and scientific agencies; including others. The details of contents of all the sub-disciplines with the bibliometric aspects 4. Scientometric portrait of eminent Indian and examined in each have been described below. foreign scientists; 5. Bibliometric assessment of individual journals Cross national assessment in different disciplines and group of journals; Several studies have been published that dealt with 6. Applicability of bibliometric laws; cross national assessment in different sub-disciplines 8 ANN. LIB. INF. STU., MARCH 2018 of science, technology, medicine and social sciences. under the aegis of Council of Scientific and Industrial The topics of such studies are given in Table 1. Research (CSIR), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Assessment of S&T in India in different sub-disciplines Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), State Several studies have been published that dealt with Agriculture Universities (SAUs), Department of bibliometric assessment of science and technology in Space (DOS), Department of Science and Technology India using different databases and different periods (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and besides studies in different sub-disciplines of science, Defence Research and Development Organization technology, medicine and social sciences. The topics (DRDO) are also actively engaged in research in of such studies are given in Table 2 different areas of science and technology. The published studies dealt with publication productivity Assessment of institutional output under different sectors like and citation impact of different institutions under academics and scientific agencies different scientific agencies. These have been listed Several agencies involved in scientific research in below in Table 3 by different performing sectors. India are academic institutions (universities and colleges), institutes of higher learning like Scientometric portraits of scientists engineering colleges including Indian Institutes of Bio-bibliometrics is a term that was first coined by Technology (IITs) and national institutes of Sen and Gan 4 to mean the quantitative and analytical technology and medical colleges and hospitals. method for discovering and establishing functional Besides these several government funded laboratories relationships between bio-data and bibliometric data Table 1—Cross national assessment in science, technology, medicine and social sciences Sl. Subject Topics no. 1. Medicine Osteoarthritis, cardiology, conjunctivitis, dengue, glaucoma, Japanese encephalitis, limbic encephalitis, malaria and malaria vaccine, mental disorder in children, measles, mouth cancer, pharmacology, retina, swine flu, vitiligo, microRNA, shrimp disease, robotic medicine, oncology, polycystic ovary syndrome, schizophrenia, genetic engineering, genetics research and use of apocynin, artemisia and podophyllotoxin. 2. Physics Bhabha scattering, dark energy, fibre optics, astronomy and astrophysics, institutional productivity in laser science and technology, monsoon, nuclear waste, pulsed laser, radio isotopes, Tsunami, geophysics, laser science and technology using patent and publication data, polymer solar cells, thorium research and physics research as a whole discipline. 3. Agricultural sciences Animal cell culture technology, fish culture, food preservation, food science and technology, forest fungal research, plant genetics and breeding, spice research, tobacco, spice research in Asian countries, date palm and agricultural sciences as a whole. 4. Engineering and Cloud computing, semantic web, cryptography, fuel cell research, nanoscience and nanotechnology technology based on publications and patents output, nanobiotechnology, nanotubes, mobile technology and studies related to ocean science and technology, assessment of patents for marine bio-prospecting and knowledge management. 5. Biological sciences Bioinformatics, patents in biotechnology, biosensors using patent data, enzyme engineering research, and biotechnology stem cell research and population genetics. 6. Chemical sciences Electrochemical research, fullerenes using patent data, material science, plastic literature, bio-fuels and synthetic organic chemistry 7. Environmental Study of CO2 reduction trends sciences 8. Social sciences Library and information science research, library and information science research as reflected in open access journals, personal attitude and job satisfaction among LIS professionals, social science, social psychology, sociology, bibliometrics and review article on national and cross national assessment, distance education, social science research in India, China and Brazil, social science research in four South Asian countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), LIS research in ASEAN, SAARC and other Asian countries Contd— GARG & TRIPATHI: BIBLIOMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS STUDIES IN INDIA DURING 1995-2014: PART II 9 Table 1—Cross national assessment in science, technology, medicine and social sciences —Contd Sl. Subject Topics no. 9. Other comparative S&T research in India, China and South Korea, S&T research in four South Asian countries (Nepal, studies in S&T Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), S&T research in India and Brazil, assessment of S&T output of developed versus developing countries, assessment of S&T output of BRIC countries, assessment of S&T output of South Asian countries, assessment of S&T output of SAARC countries based on patents, assessment of output of India versus Germany and patenting activity in Asian countries 10. Assessment of output of Patenting activity in China and India, laser S&T in India and China, physics research in India and China versus India China, plant based medicine research in India and China, Tuberculosis and diabetes research in India and China, computer science research in India and China, Fish research in India and China, Nanotechnology research India and China, assessment of research of academic institutions of India and China and assessment of research of Indian and Chinese institutions in chemical sciences, characteristics of highly cited papers from India and China, science and technology infrastructure in India and China, assessment of science and technology literature generated by India and China