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Dr.V . Uma 1 Deputy Librarian ,University of Hyderabad Hyderabad-500046, India

Evaluation of Research Performance using Journal Citations: a case study of University of Hyderabad. Dr.V . Uma 1 Deputy Librarian ,University of Hyderabad Hyderabad-500046, India Email: vulib@uohyd.ernet.in.in Dr.M . Koteswara Rao 2 Former Librarian, University of Hyderabad

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Dr.V . Uma 1 Deputy Librarian ,University of Hyderabad Hyderabad-500046, India

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  1. Evaluation of Research Performance using Journal Citations: a case study of University of Hyderabad Dr.V. Uma1 Deputy Librarian ,University of Hyderabad Hyderabad-500046, India Email: vulib@uohyd.ernet.in.in Dr.M. Koteswara Rao2 Former Librarian, University of Hyderabad Hyderabad-500046, India Email: mkrlib@uohyd.ernet.in

  2. Introd • There has been a substantial increase in the number of research papers published from India between 1996 and 2007. • Around 286,109 journal articles were published, which in turn received 994,561 citations. • Based on the citations received, India ranked 12 among the world with 0.9% of the total citations received. • This can be attributed to the increased Government funding for higher education and research which is almost four-fold during the period of study

  3. objectives • The main objective of the study is to analyze the research activities of the University during 1999-2008. In particular, the study focuses on: • The annual research output, its growth rate and impact, • The patterns of international research collaboration and productive partner countries, • The research collaboration with countries and different subject areas • The characteristics of prolific authors, productive departments and highly cited papers, and • The pattern of research communication in productive journals.

  4. Methodology • The impact factor is a kind of citation analysis that ranks scholarly journals. An impact factor is a criterion for the scientific impact of a journal and is calculated by how often articles from that journal are cited (Aksnes4). • The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a group of scientists, such as a department or university or country, as well as a scholarly journal. An h-index of eight, for instance, means that the researcher has published eight articles of which each has at least eight citations.

  5. Source of data • The study uses the 10 years publication output of University of Hyderabad retrieved from the bibliographic database - Scopus published between 1999 and 2008 to analyze the research performance.

  6. Data Analysis • Of the total publications (2297) of university of Hyderabad during 1999-2008, 1914 appeared as articles, 257 as conference papers, 78 as reviews, 19 as letters, 12 as short surveys, 7 as editorials, 6 as notes, 5 as notes and 4 as erratum’s. The research output of university rose from 843 papers in 1999-2003 to 1448 in 2004-2008, indicating the growth rate of 71.77 % and has the h-index value 49. The publications output of university of Hyderabad witnessed an annual average growth rate of 8.60% during 1999-2008. • Considering the quality of publications on the basis of citations received, the papers published from the university received total citations of 11277, with an average citation per of 4.91 citations per paper. The average citation per paper scored by university papers witnessed a decrease from 6.89 in 1999-2003 to 3.78 in 2004-2008.

  7. Research Output, Impact and International Collaborative Papers of Hyderabad University, 1999-2008

  8. Collaborative research output of top collaborative countries -1999-2008

  9. Publication share, impact, h-index or Research output of UOH under different subjects-1999-2008

  10. Publication productivity, citations and h-index of prolific authors of UOH -1999-2008

  11. Citations of authors • The papers published by these authors’ received a total 10,861 citations, with an average of 12.27 citations per paper. Only 5 authors registered higher citations than the group average. They are D. Basavaiah (with 26.81 citations per paper), followed by G. R. Desiraju (22.72 citations per paper), A. Nangia (17.47 citations per paper), A. Samanta (15.56 citations per paper) and M. N. V. Prasad (12.38 citations per paper). • Seven authors scored higher h- index value than the average of all authors. They are G.R. Desiraju (with h-index of 27), followed by A. Nangia (25), D. Basavaiah (21), A. Samanta (20), T.P. Radhakrishnan (13), M. Periasamy (13) and P. Reddanna (12). The average h- index value of these authors is 11.05.

  12. List of Schools/Departments/Centres contributing highly cited papers

  13. Findings • Some of the most prominent and productive scientists associated with these comparatively higher cited papers were G.R. Desiraju (18 papers), A. Nangia (14 papers), A. Samanta (13 papers), D. Basavaiah (6 papers), B.G. Maiya (5 papers), S.K. Das (4 papers), R.K. Jetti (4 papers), M. Periasamy (4 papers), P.C. Mandal (4 papers), M.N.V. Prasad (4 papers), etc. • The citations received by the top 100 most high cited papers (since their publication till 2008) published by the University of Hyderabad during 1999-2008 varies between 50 and 757 citations per paper. Among these 100 high cited papers, 24 were international collaborative (19 bilateral and 5 multilateral), 11 national collaborative and 1 inter-departmental collaborative. There are 64 non-collaborative papers. The 100 most cited papers of the university received 7907 citations, with the average of citation per of 791.

  14. Conclusion • Research performance measurement in itself is an area of research which deals with the performance of a researcher, a collection of selected articles, a journal or an institution. Ideally, research performance is a comprehensive assessment that takes into account a number of quantitative metrics and combines them with qualitative data to arrive at a benchmark. • From the study it is clear that quantitative and qualitative metrics derived from citation databases such as Elsevier’s SCOPUS, Thompson Scientific Citation database, etc., can be used to analyze the research output and performance of scientists as well as institutions over a period of time. These quantitative metrics such as citation index, journal impact factor, h-index can be used for ranking authors and institutions based on their research output and citations. Such studies help libraries in distributing the funds for subscribing journals required for each discipline; and also help the university to formulate research policies and develop institutional linkages.

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