Contributions by Women Faculties of Physics from Select Institutions of Delhi : A Scientometrics Study

Bebi Dabas; Shailendra Kumar

doi:10.14429/djlit.37.6.11713

Bebi Dabas Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi
Shailendra Kumar Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.37.6.11713

Keywords: Scientometrics, Women faculties, Physics, Collaborative Coefficient

Abstract

The present study aims to bring out the contribution of women faculty in the discipline of Physics in select institutions of Delhi. The study covers a total of 44 women faculties and their 802 publications during the period of 2011-2015 collected from various sources. The study presents a scientometrics analysis of 463 journal articles. The study focuses on authorship pattern, research interest areas, most productive authors, most used journals etc. The study indicates that multi-authored papers were dominated. Ratnamala Chatterjee from IIT Delhi found to be the most productive author and Journal of Applied Physics is the most preferred journal. CSIR-National Physical Laboratory was leading institution in publishing journal articles (145). It was noticed that majority of women authors preferred to be the second author while writing the paper jointly.

Author Biographies

Bebi Dabas, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi

Dr. Bebi obtained her BLIS, MLIS, MPhil (LIS) and PhD (LIS) from, DLIS, University of Delhi, Delhi. She also obtained MA (Political Science) from University of Delhi. Presently, she is a Post-Doctoral Fellow (UGC- Dr. S. Radharkrishnan PostDoctoral Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences) in the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, Delhi. Her area of expertise includes Electronic Resources, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and related areas. Contribution in the current study: collection of data, analysis of data, manuscript writing and revision of manuscript.

Shailendra Kumar, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi

Dr. Shailendra Kumar has done his PhD in Library and Information Science, he got his Master degree in LIS and B.Sc. from University of Delhi. He is presently working as Associate Professor in DLIS, University of Delhi. He served also IGNOU, CSIR and INSA at Delhi. He has to his credit more than 75 publications and five books. He has delivered more than 130 invited lectures at various universities and conferences. His interest areas are Library and Information Management Softwares, E-Learning and Scientometrics. Contribution in the current study: conceptualisation, guidance, suggestions and corrections in the manuscript.