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1 Bibliometric Scenario of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow during Manoj Kumar Sa Assistant Librarian KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha) ID: Nilaranjan Barik Assistant Librarian KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha) ID: Mamita Panda Assistant Librarian KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha) ID: ABSTRACT This study attempts to highlight the bibliometric facets of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU), Lucknow during 2010 to SCOPUS was chosen as source database for the present study from where data were exported. Finally 322 papers were found in the result during 2010 to Out of these 322 papers exported for the study 77.02% were the research articles. Environmental Science was identified as the most preferred subject area of research with 60(18.63%) papers sharing, and Bhadauria, B. S. was recognized as the most productive author with 33(10.25%) publications. Basing upon the h-index of the authors De Visser, S.P. is in the top of the list with h-index 17. Advanced Science Letters was discovered as most preferred journals by researchers with 13(4.04%) contributions. University of Lucknow was the top most collaborative institution and Malaysia was the top collaborative country with 13(4.04%) publications. Degree of collaboration among authors was The paper entitled 'Thermo chemical conversion of biomass Ecofriendly energy routes' by Panwar, N. L., Kothari, R., and Tyagi, V. V. was identified as most cited paper with 47 Citations. Other aspects that were indentified in the study were most preferred source type, citation pattern and implication of Bradford's law on literature scattering. Keywords: Bibliometric, SCOPUS, h-index, Degree of collaboration, Bradford's Law of Scattering. 1. Introduction: The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU), Lucknow is one of the leading central universities in India established on 10th January, The chief objectives behind the establishment of the university is to cater and to promote the educational needs of the marginalized people, particularly the SC/ ST communities and women of the Uttar Pradesh state of India. The University is committed to develop as a centre of excellence in the field of higher education. The uniqueness of the university is evident from its basic philosophy, policies and Programmes which are spelt out and enshrined in the university Act and statutes. 42

2 The university provides the different degree like B.Tech, B.B.A, M.Sc., M.A, M.Phil, and PhD in diverse subject areas. Besides the main objectives it has others objectives such as; To promote advanced knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities for integrated courses in Science and key frontier areas of Technology and other allied disciplines, To offer appropriate courses relevant for the development of socially and educationally depressed section of the people, including agricultural technology and rural crafts, To promote the study of the principles for which Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar worked during his lifetime, namely national integration, social justice and democratic way of life, and also study of the Constitution of the World, To take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process in inter-disciplinary studies and research, and To pay special attention to the promotion of educational and economic interests and welfare of the people in general and members belonging to the SC/ST in particular. 2. Literature Review: The government of India is establishing so many central universities in different regions of the country with an objective to develop quality education and high level research and development in the country. In the present study, the authors have undertaken a bibliometric study of such a leading central university of the country, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. The main intention of the study is to reflect the research trend and scenario of the university during the period 2010 to As, in India a good numbers of institutions have been studied in respect to their scientific research, the authors have reviewed some of the related literatures to bring a clear understanding of the present study. Kumbar, Gupta and Dhawan (2008) made a case study on growth and impact of research output of University of Mysore from 1996 to 2006 extracting 1518 publications from SCOPUS database. They have tried to analyze the strong and weak areas of university research, their growth rate and impact in terms of average citations received and impact of research under different existing departments of the university. Sevukan and Sharma (2008) carried out a bibliometric analysis of research output of biotechnology faculties in some Indian central universities during indexed in PubMed and ISI Web of Science database. The results indicated a steadily growth of literature publications in the study. Two-authored publications predominate amongst the pattern of authorship. However, the application of Bradford s law did not fit to the literature analyzed. Nandi and Bandyopadhyay (2009) made an analytical study of research contributions in Chemistry at the University of Burdwan during He study revealed that maximum 58 numbers of theses were submitted in inorganic chemistry followed by nuclear and analytical chemistry (34). About 53% of the papers were published in Indian Journals. Collaborating countries were Netherlands (15.32%), UK (11.64%) and USA (10.01%). Kumar and Dora (2012) examined research productivity of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) during indexed in Web of Science & SCOPUS. The study attempted to identify most preferred journals by the researchers, most productive authors, authorship pattern and most cited journals by researchers of IIMA. Sevukan and Arivoli (2012) instigated a bibliometric analysis of research trends among academics in Pondicherry University. The study analyzed 704 publication indexed in ISI Web of Science by the researcher of Pondicherry University during and revealed that the research going on in the university is collaborative in nature. 43

3 Baskaran (2013) analyzed in the study Research productivity of Alagappa University during indexed in Web of Science retrieving a total 776 number of publications. The study revealed Material Science was the most preferred subject area of research whereas degree of collaboration among authors was Chaurasia and Chavan (2014) carried out a bibliometric analysis of research output of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi) during retrieving data from Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Web of Science Database-Science and Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) with 6109 publications. The study revealed the growth, contribution and impact of research carried out by the faculty members and researchers of IIT Delhi. Pandita, Singh and Gaur (2014) investigated research output of some selected Indian Medical research Institutions during The study has attempted to have an analysis of medical literature produced in four most primer medical and research institutions of India. There is steady increase in the research publications in medical sciences having average annual growth of 58.90% which is noteworthy. Also, there is not always positive growth in the amount of research publications when weighed with publications of the corresponding years. Pediatrics, Neurosciences and Neurology, Surgery, General Internal Medicine and Oncology are the five main research areas in which all the research institutions participated equally. Gautam and Mishra (2015) examined scholarly research trend of Banaras Hindu University during basing upon the research publications indexed in Indian Citation Index. The result indicates that research productivity of Banaras Hindu University is increasing at the average rate of publications per year, most of the researches have contributed by joint authors, 404(39 %) articles were published in SCIE indexed journals and 637(61 %) articles published in non SCIE-indexed journals. Kumar, Dora and Desai (2015) undertook a bibliometric profile of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad during The study was carried out with 760 publications which were extracted from SCOPUS database. The study revealed that 83% of publications were journal article where Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica- Drug Research was the most preferred journal by the researchers of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Sa (2015) undertook a bibliometric analysis of research output of Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology India indexed in SCOPUS during and revealed that Parida, K.M. is the most productive author with 107(25.54%) publications, Chemistry is the most favored subject area of the study with 144(34.37%) publications and Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical is the most productive journal during the period Siwach and Kumar (2015) made a bibliometric analysis of research publications of Maharshi Dayanand University (Rohtak) during The study analyzed 1247 publications indexed in SCOPUS database and revealed the year-wise research productivity, its citations impact, national and international collaborations, top collaborating institutions, subject-wise distribution of papers, journals used for communication, most preferred journals for publication, most prolific authors, number of citations received, and top cited papers of the University during the period under study. 3. Objectives To know yearly contribution of research output in term of, To recognize most productive authors of BBAU Lucknow, To identify most preferred subject area of research by researcher of BBAU Lucknow, To find out distribution of papers by Type of Documents, To discover most preferred journals by researchers of BBAU Lucknow, 44

4 To make out most collaborative institutions of BBAU Lucknow inorder to produce research papers, To highlight most collaborative nations in term of publication of research papers with BBAU Lucknow, To know distribution of publications by different source types, To know authorship pattern of BBAU Lucknow, To analyze Degree of author collaboration, To Know citation pattern of publications, To identify most cited papers. 4. Methodology: The present study limited to the research publication of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow during 2010 to SCOPUS database chosen as main source databse from where data were retrieved by making affiliation search using Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow as affilation institution. After retrieval of data it was limited to and 322 publications were found. All bibliometric data of 322 publications were exported to CSV excel file for further analysis basing upon the aim and objectives of the study. 5. Data Analysis: 5.1 Year-wise contribution of Publications Table-1 shows the contribution of research papers of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow during the five year period from 2010 to Instead of year 2013 research trend of the university is increasing in order. Highest number of papers contributed in the year 2014 with 101(31.37%) following by 2012, 2013, 2011 with 82(25.47%), 75(23.29%) and 46(14.29%) respectively. Lowest 18 numbers of publications were published in the year Table 1: Year-wise contribution of Publications Cumulative Percentage(%) Year Cumulative Percentage(%) Total Most Productive Authors Table-2 reveals the most productive authors of the university during the period of study. It was found that there were 160 authors contributed their papers to make 322 publications. Out of these 160 authors maximum 16 numbers of authors have more than two digit publications i.e. 10 or more. Bhadauria, B. S. top the rank with highest 33(10.25%) papers followed by Singh, R. P. at 2nd rank with 18(5.59%) papers and Yadav, B. C., Ram, R. B. and Saraf, S. A. at 3rd rank contributing 15(4.66%) papers each. Besides it Babu, S. G., Dwivedi, S. K., Kumar, D. and Chandra, R. contributed 12(3.73%) papers each with 4th rank. However 45

5 another rank list has been prepared basing upon number of h-index of the author. In this context De Visser, S. P. has been identified as top author with h-index 17 and three authors Singh, R. P., Kumar, D. and Chandra, R. are jointly in the 2nd position with h-index 13. Name of the author Table 2: Most Productive Authors Percent Rank as per Subject age (%) Publications (n=322) h-index Rank as per h- index Bhadauria, B.S. Mathematics Singh, R.P. Environmental Science Yadav, B.C. Applied Physics Ram, R.B. Applies Plant Science Saraf, S.A. Pharmaceutical Sciences Babu, S.G. Biotechnology Dwivedi, S.K. Botany Kumar, D. Applied Physics Chandra, R. Environmental Microbiology De Visser, S.P. Biotechnology Kiran, P. Applied Mathematics Kaithwas, G. Pharmaceutical Sciences Kothari, R. Chemistry Singh, D.P. Environmental Science Singh, S. Physics Sonkawade, R.G. Applied Physics Most preferred subject area Contributions of research publication of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow were distributed among 24 broad subject area presented in table-3. It was found that out of 322 papers maximum 60(18.63%) papers contributed in the subject area of Environmental Science followed by Engineering with 59(18.32%) and Agricultural and Biological Sciences with 58(18.01%) papers. Lowest numbers of papers were published in the area Arts and Humanities, Neuroscience, Health Professions, Nursing, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Veterinary Sciences etc. Table 3: Most Preferred Subject Area S.No. Subject area of research Percentage (n=322) (%) 1 Environmental Science Engineering Agricultural and Biological Sciences Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Chemistry Materials Science Chemical Engineering Computer Science

6 9 Medicine Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Physics and Astronomy Immunology and Microbiology Social Sciences Mathematics Energy Business, Management and Accounting Economics, Econometrics and Finance Arts and Humanities Neuroscience Multidisciplinary Health Professions Nursing Earth and Planetary Sciences Veterinary Distribution of publication by type of documents Table-4 depicted the distribution of research publications of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow among 9 different type of documents. it was observed from the study that out of 322 papers highest 248 (77.02%) papers were published as Journal articles, 37 (11.49%) papers were published as Conference paper, 16(4.97%) papers published as Review article. Whereas other document types like Article in Press 7(2.17%), Book Chapter 6(1.86%), Editorial 3(0.93%), Book and Letter 2(0.62%), and Note 1(0.31%) were published with only single digit number. S.No. Type of Documents Table 4: Distribution of Publications by type of documents Cumulative No. of Percentage (%) Cumulative No. of Percentage (%) 1 Journal Article Conference Paper Review Article in Press Book Chapter Editorial Book Letter Note Total

7 5.5 Most preferred journals Table-5 listed out most preferable top ten journals where the researcher of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow published their papers during 2010 to It was revealed that journal 'Advanced Science Letters' which is publish from United States was the most preferable one with highest 13 papers followed by Transport in Porous Media with 12 and Journal of Environmental Biology which is publish from India with 9 papers successively. Table 5: Most preferred journals S.No. Name of the Journal Country % SJR (2014) IPP (2014) SNIP (2014) 1 Advanced Science Letters United States Transport in Porous Media Netherlands Journal of Environmental Biology India Plant Archives India International Journal of Non Linear Mechanics Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences Communications in Computer and Information Science AIP Conference Proceedings Indian Journal of Horticulture 5.6 Most collaborative Institutions United Kingdom United Kingdom India Germany United States India Table-6 shows the collaboration of research activities of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow with other institutions. In this regards University of Lucknow and Banaras Hindu University both are top in the list contributing 23 papers each which is 7.14% of total publication of university followed by Indian Institute of Toxicology Research and University of Manchester of UK with 13(4.04) and 11 (3.42%) positively. Other Institutions like Bangalore University and National Botanical Research Institute India with 9 (2.80%) papers each, whereas Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur with 8 (2.48%) and Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants India as well as Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences with 7 (2.17%) each respectively. 48

8 Table 6: Most Collaborative Institutions S.No. Affiliation Country Percentage (n=322) (%) 1 University of Lucknow India Banaras Hindu University India Indian Institute of Toxicology Research India University of Manchester UK Bangalore University India National Botanical Research Institute India India Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants India India Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences India Collaborative Countries Table-6 analyses the country wise research collaboration of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. During 2010 to 2014 university collaborated with 14 foreign countries in the field of research activities. in this regard Malaysia was in the top of the list contributed by 13(4.04%) papers followed by United States with 12(3.73%), United Kingdom 11(3.42%) and South Korea with 4(1.24%) papers respectively. Whereas other countries like Cameroon and Mexico 3(0.93%) each, New Zealand and Oman 2(0.62%) each and others six country contributed 1(0.31%) paper each. Table 7: Collaborative Countries S.No. Name of the Country Percentage (%) 1 Malaysia United States United Kingdom South Korea Cameroon Mexico New Zealand Oman Austria Jordan Morocco Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Singapore

9 5.8 Distribution of publications by source type Table-8, presented distribution of publications of university in five different source type. In this point of view highest 277(86.02%) papers published in journals followed by Conference proceedings having 20(6.21%) and Book series with 13(4.04%), Books with 10(3.11%) and Trade Publications with 2(0.62%) papers consecutively. S.No. Table 8: Distribution of publications by source type Cumulative Percentage Source Type (%) Cumulative Percentage(%) 1 Journals Conference Proceedings Book Series Books Trade Publications Total Authorship Pattern Table-9 shows the authorship pattern of researcher of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow that domination of Two authored collaboration with 77(23.91%) followed by three authored papers with 76(23.605) and four authored papers with 69(21.43%). The ratio of single author papers vs. multi-author papers is 18:304. Table 9: Authorship Pattern Year Authorship Pattern One Two Three Four Five Six seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Total Total % Degree of Collaboration The degree of collaboration among authors of the university was observed as Subramanian's formula of DC= Mn/ Sn+Mn was used to identify the degree of collaboration among authors. DC= where DC= Degree of Collaboration =Single Author Multiple Authors DC= =

10 Year 5.11 Citation Pattern Table 10: Degree of collaboration Single Multiple C=( / + ) Authors( ) Authors( ) Total Table-11 analyses distribution of citation pattern of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. It was revealed from the study that there were 130(40.37%) papers did not get any citation, whereas 2 papers received more than 40 citations and 36 papers received more than 10 citations each. Out of the 322 papers only 192 papers were cited by the researchers. Table 11: Citation Pattern Citations Percentage (%) Zero Total Most Cited Publications Citation is the key to measure the impact of the research. Researcher of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow are not far away from that they received a sum of 1209 citation during 2010 to Out of 322 papers only 192 (59.63%) papers received 1209 citations remaining 130 (40.37%) papers did not received any citation. Table-12 listed out top 10 cited papers arranged in descending order of citations received. The title 'Thermo chemical conversion of biomass Eco-friendly energy routes' has received highest 47 citations followed by the title 'Accumulation and translocation of heavy metals in soil and plants from fly ash contaminated area' with 44 citations. 51

11 Table 12: Most cited papers Title Authors Source Journals Year Citations Rank Thermo chemical conversion of biomass Ecofriendly energy routes Panwar N.L., Kothari R., Tyagi V.V. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Accumulation and translocation of heavy metals in soil and plants from fly ash contaminated area Singh R., Singh D.P., Kumar N., Bhargava S.K., Barman S.C. Journal of Environmental Biology Structural determinants of D-cycloserine efficacy at the NR1/NR2C NMDA receptors Dravid S.M., Burger P.B., Prakash A., Geballe M.T., Yadav R., Le P., Vellano K., Snyder J.P., Traynelis S.F. Journal of Neuroscience Zerovalent iron encapsulated chitosan nanospheres - A novel adsorbent for the removal of total inorganic Arsenic from aqueous systems Gupta A., Yunus M., Sankararamakrishnan N. Chemosphere Carbon ion beam induced modifications of optical, structural and chemical properties in PADC and PET polymers Kumar V., Sonkawade R.G., Chakarvarti S.K., Singh P., Dhaliwal A.S. Radiation Physics and Chemistry Fermentative hydrogen production - An alternative clean energy source Kothari R., Singh D.P., Tyagi V.V., Tyagi S.K. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Nonheme ferric hydroperoxo intermediates are efficient oxidants of bromide oxidation Vardhaman A.K., Sastri C.V., Kumar D., De Visser S.P. Chemical Communications Review on solar air heating system with and without thermal energy storage system Tyagi V.V., Panwar N.L., Rahim N.A., Kothari R. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Synthesis, characterization and role of zero-valent iron nanoparticle in removal of hexavalent chromium from chromium-spiked soil Singh R., Misra V., Singh R.P. Journal of Nanoparticle Research

12 An overview for exploring the possibilities of energy generation from municipal solid waste (MSW) in Indian scenario Singh R.P., Tyagi V.V., Allen T., Ibrahim M.H., Kothari R. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Revisited Jatropha curcas as an oil plant of multiple benefits: Critical research needs and prospects for the future Abhilash P.C., Srivastava P., Jamil S., Singh N. Environmental Science and Pollution Research Comparison of the reactivity of nonheme iron(iv)-oxo versus iron(iv)-imido complexes: Which is the better oxidant? Vardhaman A.K., Barman P., Kumar S., Sastri C.V., Kumar D., De Visser S.P. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition Growth, tolerance efficiency and phytoremediation potential of Ricinus communis (L.) and Brassica juncea (L.) in salinity and drought affected cadmium contaminated soil Bauddh K., Singh R.P. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety Growth mechanism and optical properties determination of CdS nanostructures Pandey G., Dixit S. Journal of Physical Chemistry C Bradford's Law of scattering scientific literature Bradford's law of scientific scattering indicates three productive zones in the patterns of 1: n: for cited journals. According to Bradford's laws of scattering a total 1209 citations were divided into three equal zones with 403 citations in each zone. First zone contained 14 papers which is nucleus zone with 391 citations. Second zone contained 35 papers with 411 citations. Third zone which is last zone contained 143 papers with 404 citations in a ratio of 14:35:143 which did not fit the law. Table 13: Bradford's Law of Scattering Rank Cumulative Cumulative Cumulative Cumulative Citations % Citations Citations % Zone Ist 53

13 nd 3rd Conclusion and Findings: Research trend of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University is increasing mode from 18(5.59%) publications in the year 2010 to 101(31.37%) publications in Bhadauria, B. S. has been recognized as the most productive author by contributing highest 33(10.25%) publications of which h-index are 10. Environmental Science has been identified as the most preferred subject area of research with 60(18.63%) publications followed by Engineering with 59(18.32%) and Agricultural and Biological Sciences with 58(18.01%) publications respectively. In the context of distribution of publications by different type of document Journal Articles tops the list with 248(77.02%) publications followed by Conference Paper with 37(11.49%) and Reviews with 16(4.97%) respectively. Journal Advanced Science Letters published from United States discovered as most preferred journals of the researchers with highest 13 (4.04%) publications. University of Lucknow and Banaras Hindu University were the top most collaborative institution of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University with 23 (7.14%) publications each. Malaysia topped the list as collaborative nation with 13 (4.04%) publications followed by United States 12 (3.73%)and united Kingdom 11(3.42%). In the list of distribution of publications by different source type Journals share maximum 277(86.02%) publications followed by Conference Proceedings 20(6.21%) and Book Series 13(4.04%). Domination of two authored publications with 77(23.91%). Degree of Collaboration is publications did not get any citations. Out of 322 papers 192 papers were cited by researchers. Title Thermo chemical conversion of biomass Eco-friendly energy routes by Panwar N.L., Kothari R., Tyagi V.V. in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews identified as highest time cited publication with 47 citations. Bradford s law of scattering is not suitable with the literature analyzed. 54

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