Measuring the Publication Productivity of N.E-Indian Universities Using Scopus: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Universities of N.E- India are having a great importance in higher education sector for the region. Scholars from these universities published a numbers of intellectual works in different publication sources. SCOPUS is an indexing and abstracting database which facilitates for accessing the high quality published materials. The database is having a unique method of searching known as “affiliation search” strategy and the data for the institution publications are collected from it . The paper aims at investigating the different types of published materials by the Universities of N.E- India like articles, conference papers, review, erratum etc. The paper also identifies the peak period in which the growth of publication is maximum. Lastly, an attempt has been made to calculate the Annual Growth rate(AGR) and Average Annual Growth rate(AAGR) of the published documents during the last 20 years.