Trends in Research Productivity: A Bibliometric Analysis of Dibrugarh University Publications using Web of Science

Abstract

The present study contains a Bibliometric analysis of bibliographic records published from 2006 to 2015. 533 items retrieved from Web of Science were studied. It shows increasing publication trend of the Dibrugarh University. The study includes year wise distribution of publications, domain wise distribution of publications, collaborating countries of the institute, authorship pattern and collaboration trend of publications, institutional collaboration of publications, preferred channels of research communications, citation impact of publication,etc. The average output of the organization was 53 publications per year; the peak was 88 items in 2014 and the minimum was 15 items in the year 2006. Single authorship publication accounted for 5%, while multi authorship publication of articles accounted for 95 %. The top 30 institutions which collaborated with Dibrugarh University accounted for about 50.28% share. It was seen that the publications of Dibrugarh University received a total of 2581 citations during the period of 10 years. The average citation per item was 4.84.