International Journal of Library Science and Research (IJLSR) ISSN (P): 2250–2351; ISSN (E): 2231–0079 Vol. 10 Issue 1, Jun 2020, 29-40 ©TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. RESEARCH PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS A. PERUMAL Assistant Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Madras, Chennai, India ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to explore the research performance of the University of Madras for the period of twenty years through the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) citation databases. The parameters adapted by these two major citation analytics provides scope for a comparative examining of the total output in terms of publications, emerging research topics, prolific authors, collaboration pattern, growth rate of publication and testing the impact of citations on h-index for the bibliographic data retrieved and integrated. The amassed data have been systematically analysed with the help of Bibexcel; sizable bibliometric software, SPSS and Excel tools so that some sort of relationships and differences have been understood. One of the oldest universities in India; University of Madras occupies significant position and rank in publications and citations as seen in these two Bibliographic databases (secondary data) which has been attracted by modern researchers to identity and accumulate their primary literature for earlier period of their studies through the Origin standard citation formats and links to full texts available here. The take away of this study could be real research performance measurement of the faculty members of the university over a period so that future researchers/stakeholders of this institution and others interested people and organizations in the same field will be a l benefited a lot. Furthermore, this kind of performance assessments provides knowledge to policy makers to take Ar t decision upon funding, research collaboration, appointments and allocation of resources accordingly. icle KEYWORDS: Research performance, Bibliometric analysis, Collaborations, Ranking of authors, University of Madras Received: May 11, 2020; Accepted: Jun 01, 2020; Published: Jun 24, 2020; Paper Id.: IJLSRJUN20204 1. INTRODUCTION Universities are the symbolic representation for the higher education achievement of a country so as to establishment of knowledge society and intellectual assets through structured and profiled teaching and research process as its fundamental responsibilities well defined. The Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to measure the overall performance of universities and colleges could vary according to the nation’s socio-economic factors but it can be broadly categorized as: Participation of under-represented groups, Student progression, Learning outcomes (including non-completion), Efficiency of learning and teaching and Research output [1]. Among all this specific indicators the importance on research and its publications is highly valuable because of sharing of knowledge universally is need of the hour. Another vital factor is evaluation of the research activity of a university helps the administrators and authorities to understand the institution’s position in publication that can be witnessed through many bibliographical databases like Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, CitSeerX, Crossref, PubMed, Embase, SciFinder and so on. Furthermore, more specifically, ranking the research performance of the faculty members of institutions relies largely on two inter-related indicators viz., quantum of the scholarly publications (quantitative) and citation evaluations (qualitative). Bibliometrics is a study of statistical analysis for www.tjprc.org [email protected] 30 A. Perumal the library products and services that could be measured and assessed for its worthiness and values and it will investigate the publication productivity, pattern, and evaluative author and journal indices viz. g-index, h-index, i-10 index and Impact Factor(IF) and SCImago journal ranking, Eigenfactor and Article Influence Score[2] respectively. Of many models to measure the research performance of an institution or combination of institution, one such is measured by both dependent variable (Research quantum) and independent variables which play impact upon the dependent variables like staff PhD percentage, Staff-student ratio, good teaching etc.[3] This study applies bibliometric methods and techniques to dissect the scholarly communications of University of Madras indexed in Scopus and Web of Science citation databases. 1.2 Background of the Study University of Madras established based on the model of London University, was incorporated on September 5, 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India. It is one of the three Premier Universities and the other two giants are University of Calcutta and University of Bombay. All the three are celebrated their 150th (Sesquicentennial) year of establishment on 2006-07 (Madras). The test university-University of Madras embeds six campuses at various places in Chennai Metropolitan area. They are called i) Chepauk (Main) Campus, ii) Guindy Campus (Pure Sciences), iii) Marina Campus (Language), iv) Taramani Campus (Basic Medical), v) Chetpet Campus (Sports) and vi) Maduravoyal Campus (Botany field laboratory). There are 73 Teaching and Research Departments in the University of Madras which are grouped under 18 schools. 1.3 Need for the Study The cause and effect of information explosion is colossal and muddle respectively. In order to overcome this problem, library and information centres (LIC) traditionally adapted information organization practices systematically; such system includes classifications, indexing and abstracting methods, subject bibliographies and directories and of course citation databases. Investigation of standard citation databases for the indexing of publication of an institution or individual author implies ranking them purposefully. This study provides room for analyse and assimilate the research performance of the particular institution-University of Madras over a period visible in two popular citation databases so that volumetric and valuable output and outcome is put forth on public domain with easy to understand scales. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW Over the last five decades several studies have been undertaken on research performances of the faculties of Universities, Institutions and individual authors as Biobibliometric studies and quantifying a specific subject literature from various sources of publications. Some of the specific related literature is listed below as such: Levine-Clark & Gil (2009)[4] presented the result of a comparative analysis of three citation databases-Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar and its hits over a randomly selected business and economics journals and they were made an extensive study of average number of hits/cites for all journals of selected disciplines, top twenty five journals and unranked articles. They concluded that the Web of Science have long been the only citation database because of ISI, IF and Scopus covers large quantity of journal article so that mammoth citations but Google Scholar is best alternate for these two commercial databases. Baskaran (2003) [5] have systematically studied the research output of Alagappa University for the period from 1999-2011 based on Web of Science citation database and he investigated the degree of collaboration, relative growth rate, subject wise contribution etc. Balasubrarmani and Parameshwaran (2014)[6] mapped the research Impact Factor (JCC : 5.4762 NAAS Rating: 2.87 Research Performance of University of Madras: A Bibliometric Analysis 31 productivity of Banaras Hindu University and they categorized the strong and weak areas of university research by going through prolific authors, emerging subjects, source journals etc. Al-Ghamdi et al (2011)[7] analysed the research output of King Saud University elaborately by using bibliometric and non-bibliometric indicators which can be categorize the authors and their research performances in a systematic way. Zhu et al (2014) [8]measured research performances of the Chinese Universities using bibliometric indicators and the source was Scopus databases for the year 2007-2010.They did comparative analyses of the research performances of the Chinese Universities with the United States and Europe Universities and they have used the citation analysis to study the performance of the researchers. Annibaldi et al (2010)[9] analysed the research performances of the analytical chemistry academic publication of the national university of the Italy based on the citation indices of Impact factor, h-index etc. This study gives clear sight on the research performance of the specific departments and its publication productivity and their area of research. Thirumagal (2012)[10] studied the scientific publication of the Manonmanium Sundaranar University, Thirunelveli, the source collected from the Web of Science for a period of 1992-2011, she listed out the research productivity based on geographic distribution, total global citation score by using bibliometric tools like BibExcel, HitCite. Maharana (2014)[11] explained elaborately about the Research growth and development of the Sambalpur University during 2008-2012, through a bibliometric way and this study emphases various measurements like major research areas, most prolific authors, most prolific institutions, length of the paper during the 2007-2011, Lotka’s law of scientific productivity, AAPP (Average Author Per Paper) and authorship pattern etc. 3. OBJECTIVES