1st ICLIM - 2016
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Item A Bibliometric Assessment of the Intellectual Content and Recognition Level of the Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.U.; Weerasooriya, W.A.Bibliometrics enables quantitative description of scholarly documents, their impact and influence. This study explores “The Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF)”; a globally recognized journal where the objectives were to assess (1) the subject coverage, (2) types of information sources consulted by authors, and (3) total citations received by JNSF. Articles in 40 issues (n=335) published during 2004 and 2013 in two five-year periods; 2004-2008 (P-I) and 2009-2013 (P-II) were analysed separately. Among the 9 major disciplines identified, most articles were related to biology, and agriculture; particularly biochemistry, plant sciences, microbiology and animal sciences. Increased research has been carried out in the fields of chemistry, biomedical research, geo science and engineering. Physics and mathematics were narrowly studied. The subject diversity and inter-disciplinary research have increased by 19% and 10% respectively. Several new fields of research have emerged while research in some areas are lacking. JNSF contains 7043 in-text citations with 176.1 citations per issue whereas 20.8 citations per article with an average increased by 56.2% during P-II. Journal articles were the most-cited material incessantly, followed by books, proceedings and web-resources. Citing local references per volume has lessened by 4% whereas self-citation has declined to 1.14%. Most references (23%) lies within 6-10 years. The ‘price-index’ was 19.82 while ‘citing half-life’ for journals and books were 11 and 15 years respectively. JNSF has received 366 citations with an average of 3.02 per “cited article”. Citing of JNSF has improved from 19.87% (P-I) to 50.56% (P-II). Certain recent articles received early citations, especially within the published year. Most articles (38.84%) were cited once whereas the citations received were highest in the first 2, 3 years after publication, and a rapid decline observed after the 5th year. The results revealed the information needs of researchers, existing and deprived research areas, and recognition of JNSF in terms of citations.Item Research Performance of Cloud Computing in BRICS Countries(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Raja, S.Research performance of BRICS countries has been studied using publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database core collection. “Cloud computing” as a search term in the address tag fetched 2537 records and the period of coverage from 1989 to 2016. The downloaded data were analyzed using MS Excel, VOS Viewer, and HistCite software applications. The analysis revealed that there are 6767 authors from among 5 countries; 623 journals; 9 types of documents; 2130 institutions; 63,005 times cited by local and global references. 93.9% of publications are scholarly articles. The highest productive year is 2015 (28.6%) (TGCS- 843) and lowest is 1991 (TGCS-25). Of the 73 countries, Peoples R China stands first, USA and India in the second and third places respectively. “International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing”, “IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems”, “Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience” are the most productive journals involved in this study. Among the 6767 authors, “Li J” has earned the highest publication. “Chinese Academy Science” and “Tsinghua University” dominate other institutions in terms of number of records. 63,005 cited references were measured from the data and most cited authors were “Armbrust M”, “BUYYA R”, and “Dean J”; most cited journals were “COMMUN ACM”, “FUTURE GENER COMP SY”, and “COMMUN ACM”.Item Chemical Sciences Research Output among the Universities in the State of Tamilnadu: A Scientometric Study(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pandian, R.Chemistry is a major subject of domain of basic sciences, the principles; the theories and applications have been involved for the use of mankind for generations in almost in all kinds of physical activities. It is also evident that a major stake of research is being carried out in chemistry and allied subjects, as one fourth of the publications output are being indexed by most popular scholarly literature across the globe, it is very much imminent for library and information professionals to identify the scholarly input growth and trend of the subject prevalence, the research applications, the research funding and opportunities, the research tools, methods, the organisations and the people engaged in research of chemical sciences and to forecast the same to the user community. The UniversitiesinTamilnaduhave the major stake towards contributing and orienting the academic research in India. Hence the study aimed at analysing and assessing the research output on chemical sciences from the State Government Universities of Tamilnadu through the publication output. The researcher has choosen Web of Science (WoS) database as the source of study and the study period is 1989-2014, The researcher has used the search string in the topic field “Chemistry” and Address field “Alagappa University”, “Annamalai University”, “Bharathidasan University”, “Bharathiar University”, “Madras University”, Madurai Kamaraj University”, “ManonanmaniamSundarnar University”, Mother Teresa University”, Periyar University”, and “Thiruvalluvar University” is used for data collection. The study found gradual growth of publication output over the years. Phenomenal growth is between 2011-2014. All the 5433 publications were received Global Citation Scores 51862. The literature published in 9forms of documentations. It is observed that its relative growth rate have shrunk gradually from 4.28 at 1989 to 8.61 in the year of 2014. Contrary to this, the Doubling time for publication of all sources of 0.19 research output has decreased from 1.17 in 1989 to 5.78 in 2014. The Collaboration research between Tamilnadu State Universities had 51862 number of citations across the globe; the top three countries contributed are USA, Japan, and South Africa. There are 33 subject categories in chemical research is being carried out, which is published in 351 journals, the major output from top three journals are Indian Journal of Chemistry section B (236), Tetrahedron Letters (214), Asian Journal Chemistry (194). The researcher also applied the relevance of bibliometric laws and made a Histrographical analysis for citations. There are 5437 number of authors were contributed this literature. The study shows that there were rich numbers of collaboration among the Indian and aboard.