Research Productivity of Mizoram University from 2004 to 2017, A Scientometric Study Based on Indian Citation Index

Abstract

Indian Citation Index is a major web-based citation database that provides access to the Indian publications across all disciplines published in journals/serials or other documents. The current study evaluated the research productivity of Mizoram University based on the data collected from Indian Citation Index for fourteen years from 2004-2017. This study endeavours to analyse the overall performance of the faculty members of the Mizoram University in research productivity. During the study, a total of 265 articles were collected from Indian Citation Index between the years 2004-2017. The study endeavours to measure the year-wise distribution of publication output, co-authorship index, and collaborative index, degree of collaboration, collaboration coefficient, modified collaboration coefficient, most productive author, top-ranked subjects and top-ranked publications based on the collected data. The result of the study indicates that the average research output is 18.93 articles per year. The most productive author was U. K. Sahoo department of Forestry with 25 publications. The highest rank publication was Current Science with 16 publications. Highest publications have been given by Biological Science subject which is 54 and research article 230 was a preferred document by the scientists of Mizoram University during 2004-2017.