Publication Output with Citation based Performance of  Selected DBT Institutes in India

Dhiman Mondal; Kaustuv Chakrabarti; Sudip Banerjee; D.D. Lal

doi:10.14429/djlit.41.02.16547

Dhiman Mondal Ananda Mohan College, 102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, Kolkata- 700 009, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3746-8646
Kaustuv Chakrabarti Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, College Street, Kolkata- 700 071, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3170-9552
Sudip Banerjee City College of Commerce and Business Administration, Kolkata - 700 012, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4802-5525
D.D. Lal National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, Gurgaon- 122 052, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1989

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.41.02.16547

Keywords: Biotechnology, Publication, Research, Scientometrics, India

Abstract

This scientometric study examines the publication outputs from six institutes of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in India as cited in the Scopus database over the past 24 years, 1996-2019. Research in biotechnology and other allied areas were analysed in terms of their chronological growth, activity index, collaborations, preferred journals for publication, country collaborators, popular keywords and scholarly impact. Scientists from the six institutes published 6, 076 journal articles representing 73.65 per cent of nationally collaborated articles and 25.03 per cent of internationally collaborated articles. Of the DBT institutes, the National Institute of Immunology (NII) published the highest number of articles and the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) shared most patents. Publication frequency was the highest for Plos One journal and the countries with which scientists collaborated included the United States, Germany, United Kingdom and France in that order. The publishing outputs of DBT institutes suggest a need for greater international collaborative research in order to gain scientific competency and increase the quality of research outputs. Also this study may be helpful to government officials and policy makers in determining allocation of resources to boost the scholarly outputs of DBT institutes.