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    Mapping the Bird Flu Research Output: A Bibliometric Study.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Duraipandi., R.; Kamble, V.T.; Devendrappa.
    Bibliometrics is a method of study to analyze and measure the quantitative output of all branches of sciences and social sciences, which directly related with library and information science. Bird Flu is a severe, often fatal, type of influenza that affects birds, especially poultry, and that can also be transmitted to humans which indexed by Web of Science online database, indicates that the publication output in the global perspective. This study analyses the 669 records published by scientists on Bird Flu during 2000-2015(16 years). The highest numbers of papers were published during the year 2006 with 158 records with (23.6%) with top rank and followed the year 2005 with 101(15.1%) of publications ranked at second. Overall 1412 authors were contributed 334 publications in the journal and cited reference with 9710 records of the articles. The word wise distribution is 1783 records of in the bird flu research with the LCS 204; GCS 6589.
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    Global Perspective Research Productivity on Swine Flu: A Scientometric Study.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Duraipandi, R.; Aravind; Rao, N.
    Scientometrics is a method to measure quantitative output of all branches of sciences and social sciences. Today, it is very popular area of study in library and information science. An analysis of 958 publications published by scientists on Swine Flu during 1991-2014 (19 years) which indexed in Web of Science universal Database indicates the publications in the global perspectives. Swine Flu is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of pigs, caused by one of the several strains of swine influenza A. The virus is spread among pigs by aerosols, through direct and indirect contact, and also by asymptomatic carrier pigs. The highest numbers of papers were published during the year 2009 with 270 (28.2%) records and ranked at top; the year 2010 has scored 243 (25.4%) and the year 2011 has scored 187(19.6%) of publication and ranked at third. Overall, 3172 authors were contributed 501 publications in the journal and cited reference with 16467 records of the articles. The average citation per item is 9.43 and the h- index is 44 with LCS 583; GCS 8983; CR 16467.