Scientometric Portrait of Hari Chand Sharma an Outstanding Agricultural Scientist

K C Garg; Niraj Kumar

doi:10.14429/djlit.39.3.14071

K C Garg CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi-110 012, India
Niraj Kumar Atma Ram Sanatan Dharama College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110 021, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.39.3.14071

Keywords: Scientometric portrait, H.C. Sharma, Agricultural scientist, India

Abstract

An analysis of 595 documents produced by Dr Hari Chand Sharma indicates that about 45 per cent of these were published as journal articles. Most of the research papers were published in journals originating from the UK, the USA and the Netherlands in medium impact factor journals. He has produced majority of his publications in collaboration with other scientists and had collaborated with more than 1,000 authors as indicated by high value of collaboration coefficient (0.66) and collaboration rate of 1.00 for considerable number of years. He was most productive during the age of 58-60 year. The high value of citations per paper indicated that the research outputs of Dr Sharma were part of the main stream science.

Author Biographies

K C Garg, CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi-110 012, India

Dr K.C.Garg holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics besides a PhD in Library and Information Science with specialisation in Scientometrics. He superannuated as Chief Scientist from CSIR-NISTADS in January 2012. He has published more than 100 paper in different fields of bibliometrics/scientometrics in journals. His work mainly focuses on bibliometric assessment of nations and institutions, which has been extensively coated in international literature.

Dr Garg examined the collected data and wrote the final paper for submission.

Niraj Kumar, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharama College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110 021, India

Mr Niraj Kumar is currently working at ARSD College, University of Delhi, Delhi. He obtained his PGDCA from RCC Bihar and Jetking Certify Hardware and Networking Professional course from Jetking New Delhi. Later he completed his BLIS and MLIS from Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi. His area of interest is Networking, library automation, and library management software.

In the present study, he entered the data in MS Excel and analysed the data as guided by first author from time to time.