Scientometric Assessment of Publication Productivity of JNTBGRI, Thiruvananthapuram

Abstract

The article explores the scientometric assessment of publication productivity of Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI). The data for the study was taken from the Annual report of the JNTBGRI from 2001-2010 which were then tabulated and analysed. The scientists of JNTBGRI prefer mostly Indian journals to publish their articles. Journal of Economic Taxonomic Botany tops the list with the highest number of articles 50 (9.11 %), followed by Zoos (Print Journal) with 39 articles. India is the leading country with 54.67 % of total journals. The collaboration coefficient of journal article during the year 2010 is found to be 0.7541. The articles published in the journal Current Science got 45 citations and Journal of Ethnopharmacology got only 5 citations. The article tries to analyse the country-wise distribution of journals, collaboration-coefficient in research and subject areas in which research has been done.

Metrics employed in the evaluation of research productivity: A systematic literature review

“…The MCC in the field of Natural Science in the case of the university, Jamia Milia Islamia was found to be varied from 0.32 to 1.00 as reported by Kumar and Naqvi (2014). Mini Devi and Lekshmi (2014) derived the MCC for Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram in the range 0.482-0.807.…”

“…Other collaborative measures are Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaborative Index (CI), Collaborative Coefficient (CC), Modified Collaborative Coefficient (MCC), and Co-authorship Index (CAI) which were used for analyzing the extent of collaboration among authors. The papers deal with these measures were studied by Aswathy and Gopikuttan (2015), Bharti and Meera (2017), Chaurasia and Chavan (2014), Das and Maharana (2016), Mini Devi and Lekshmi (2014), Gautam and Mishra (2015), Gopikuttan and Aswathy (2016), Kumar et al (2015), Khan and Ahangar (2015), Koganuramah et al (2002), Kumar and Dora (2012), Kumar and Naqvi (2014), Meera and Sahu (2014), Nandi and Kumar (2013), Nandi and Mondal (2017), Peter et al (2019), Satpathy and Sa (2015), Sharma (2009), Varghese and Rajan (2009), and Vijay et al (2019). The mean DC for the Botany Department; at the University of Burdwan is 0.70 as examined by Nandi and Kumar (2013).…”