Library Herald Year : 2017, Volume : 55, Issue : 1 First page : ( 77) Last page : ( 88) Print ISSN : 0024-2292. Online ISSN : 0976-2469. Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-2469.2017.00006.9
Dwivedi Sandhya Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Library & Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Email: sandhpandey79@gmail.com
Abstract
The present study is an effort to assess dengue research performance of India based on the publications output indexed by Web of Science during 1989–2015 using three components namely quantity, quality and consistency. The data indicates an exponential growth in publications output during the study period. The most productive authors, organisations, most influential journals and most functional sub-field in the area of dengue research have been evaluated. Activity index for world is more than 100 in most years, whereas lots of variation is observed in the activity index for India. Quality/Impact analysis of Indian dengue research gave the first rank to Chaturvedi UC as author, FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology as most preferred journal and King Georg Medical College, Lucknow as the best organisation and Microbiology as most favoured sub-discipline in dengue research.
Keywords Bibliometrics, three dimensional evaluation, indicators, quality, quantity, consistency,Dwivedi Sandhya.