Research Productivity of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO): A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract:

The bibliometric study has to analyze the research output of Indian space Research Organisation (ISRO) for 16 years from 1999 – 2014 for 16 years a total of 1720 records were downloaded to use the WoS core collection. For that the bibliometric tools of Histcite software and MS Excel have been applied and performed the results of the below all parameters. The results of the study indicate that the large number of publications on ISRO was in the year 2013 ranked at top with 157 publications. The analysis also reveals among the authors „Pal PK‟, has ranked at first with 61(3.5%) of publications. Among the Journal “INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING” has ranked at top with 138(8.0%) of records with 186 TLCS, 936 TLGS and 101TLCR. The analysis also shows that most of ISRO literature was in the form of article. The language wise analysis, English ranked at highest with 1719 publications. The Organisation wise collaborations of publications were ranked the ISRO ranked at top with 1001(58.2%) of publications. The Country wise collaboration of publications ranked, the India stood for top position with 1654(96.2%) of publications. The ranking of the Research Areas of ISRO publications, Engineering has ranked at highest with 476(27.674%). The study ranking the Funding Agencies, the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO, has ranked at top with 29(0.640%) of records stood at first. To rank the top 10 Web of Science categories, the Remote Sensing has ranked at top with 319(18.547%) of publications.

Author Name : R. Duraipandi, Dr.R.Balasubramani

Keywords: Bibliometric Study; Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO); Scientometric Study; Web of Science Database.


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