Research Productivity in Sri Lanka

Pethiyagoda, U.

doi:10.4038/jnsfsr.v33i1.2359

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“…Gupta et al (2002) studied India's collaboration with South Asian countries during 1992-1999 using Science Citation Index (SCI) database. Pethiyagoda (2005) critically evaluated the importance of research output and present status of Sri Lanka on the basis of a number of research papers published in the Science Citation indexed journals. Wickremasinghe (2008) studied the research productivity of rice scientists in India and Sri Lanka based on the data collected at one institute each in India and Sri Lanka using a structured questionnaire.…”

Section: Sri Lankan Universities and Research Outputmentioning

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The Publication Output and Impact of various Faculties in Sri Lankan Universities: a Scientometric Assessment and Policy Implications

Pratheepan

Weerasooriya

2016

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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This paper aims to evaluate the faculty research performance on the basis of publication output, citations and h-index of professors working in Sri Lankan universities. Six hundred fifty professors from different universities of Sri Lanka served as respondents. Using scientometrics, publications of professors spanning 1980-2014 are analyzed. It found that based on the mean h-index used in this study, faculty of science is the best performer with the mean h-index of 5.55, followed by medicine (5.24), engineering (3.81), agriculture (3.76), management (2.74) and arts (2.62). This study further revealed that, the faculty of agriculture has the highest percentage (97.37 %.) of professors with published output; they have at least one research paper. Study also measured the universities' position in the each disciplines on the basis of the mean h-index. The results showed that out of six faculties, which are grouped in this study, University of Peradeniya (PDN) is found to be the most predominant in agriculture, arts, science and engineering). In medicine, University of Kelaniya is the best on the basis of the mean h-index with 6.85. In the case of the faculty of management, University of Jaffna had the highest mean h-index of 7.75. On the other hand result indicates that the performance of arts among almost all of the universities except University of Colombo and PDN were very poor and similar. It is recommended that research output on arts, social sciences and management across the university faculty must be strengthened and mechanism should be introduced by the authorities.

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“…Pethiyagoda (2005) noted that many senior scientists agreed in their dismay at the apparent decline in the scientific competence of Sri Lanka. This statement may not be an accepted fact now, because studies showed that Sri Lankan research output has progressed in recent years.…”

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The Publication Output and Impact of various Faculties in Sri Lankan Universities: a Scientometric Assessment and Policy Implications

Pratheepan

Weerasooriya

2016

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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“…All orders except anabantiformes showed a decline in the diversity which may be related to the ecological character of the order. The increase in anabantiformes during ood 2018 may be substantiated by Pethiyagoda (1991) which states that the group can tolerate extremely unfavorable water conditions and can be associated mainly with turbid, stagnant waters (Fig. 3).…”

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Assessment of the seasonal and altitudinal gradients in fish diversity of a tropical river of western ghats biosphere using multivariate analysis

PAUL,

Sudheesan,

Saha

et al. 2023

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The study attempted to investigate the seasonal and spatial (altitudinal) gradients in fish diversity with respect to hydrobiological variables of Chaliyar river (encompassed in western Ghats biosphere). Fish and water quality samples were collected seasonally and analysed inorder to identify the drivers determining fish diversity of the river. 66 fish sp. belonging to 57 families and 12 orders were recorded during the study period (2017–2020). The year-wise diversity analysis revealed that higher diversity was recorded in 2019(1.43) compared to 2018. Seasonal and altitudinal (stretch wise) diversity analysis showed that the pre-monsoon season of 2017 (3.19) and lower stretch (2.18) of the river recorded the highest diversity. Phosphate (0.036ppm ± 0.039), calcium hardness (35.18 ± 101.61ppm), transparency (1.04 ± 0.6m), total hardness (330.21 ± 795.66ppm), and magnesium hardness (60.57ppm ± 142.42) were positive drivers influencing the diversity of Chaliyar as assessed using step-wise regression. Majority of fishes belong to least concern category except Horabagrus brachysoma (yellow spotted catfish) and Bhavania australis (westernghat loach). Community mobilisation, enhanced scientific interpretation and identification of appropriate habitat indices would be considered the next step in devising management measures in Chaliyar river.

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“…There are several bibliometric studies on research productivity of Sri Lankan state universities, based on Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) but no evidence of the use of SciVal. Pethiyagoda (2005) claims that only 234 papers are published in indexed journals and the majority of them by the Sri Lankan nationals working in foreign laboratories; however the author does not mention the source of these numbers. The factors that affect the productivity have been identified as poor syllabi implemented by inadequately motivated and qualified teachers, outdated instructional techniques, undue emphasis on examinations, restricted access to English language and academic promotion schemes that overlook quality for quantity.…”

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Research productivity of the state universities of Sri Lanka, a case based on SciVal and the contribution of the libraries towards excellence

Wijetunge

Silva

Manatunga

2020

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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This paper discusses the research productivity of five state universities of Sri Lanka during 2015-2018, using scholarly output, citation impact and collaboration metrics of SciVal, and the contribution of the university libraries towards research excellence. Five multidisciplinary state universities; University of Colombo (UoC), Kelaniya (UoK), Peradeniya (UoP), Ruhuna (UoR) and Sri Jayewardenepura (UoSJP) were selected as the sample. During the study period, 4723 publications and 3831 authors have been recorded, of which UoC and UoP records the highest numbers. UoR records the highest publications in top journal percentile and highest number of views (72) among the five universities. A total of 33104 citations are reported while UoP depicts the highest citation count (18322) as an individual university, while UoR records the highest h5-index (39). Highest Field Weighted Citation Impact (3.18) and the highest citations per publication (12.4) is recorded by UoP while the highest output in top citation percentile (32.5%) is recorded by UoR. UoR records the highest overall international collaboration (74.4) during the studied period and UoP records the highest academic/corporate collaboration (2.2). University libraries provide collections and conducive environments for researchers, training in searching for information, referencing styles and use of reference management software, plagiarism detection and they maintain Institutional Repositories. The study established that there is much scope for university libraries to expand the services to support research productivity and recommends that librarians should consider on more current support areas like research data management, measuring research impact, and digital curation in order to support their universities to achieve excellence in research productivity.

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Research Productivity in Sri Lanka

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The Publication Output and Impact of various Faculties in Sri Lankan Universities: a Scientometric Assessment and Policy Implications

The Publication Output and Impact of various Faculties in Sri Lankan Universities: a Scientometric Assessment and Policy Implications

Assessment of the seasonal and altitudinal gradients in fish diversity of a tropical river of western ghats biosphere using multivariate analysis

Research productivity of the state universities of Sri Lanka, a case based on SciVal and the contribution of the libraries towards excellence

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