Highly Cited Paper from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India during 2001-14: A Scientometrics Analysis Case Study

Abstract

Over the past six decades the web of science database maintaining the core collections Science Citation Index Expanded, and past three decades Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science and past one and half decades SciLEO Citation Index, Journal citation reports. This research paper analyses the results of a scientometric analytical case study of the research activities of highly cited papers from2001 to 2014. The study evaluates the growth of publications, citations, average citations per publication and H- index of top scientists or researchers, at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. Besides that the paper presents a citation-based mapping of data on global scientific activities from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India research publications using Web of Science Database. Using different scientometric approaches, a continuous increase of both quantitative and qualitative parameters such as h-index and Global Citation Scores.Researchers have published 20063 publications during the time period 2001-2014 and cited at least 47 times by end of 2014 are analysed. Authors have been able to place their papers in high impact journals such as Physics, Engineering, Chemistry,Materials Science, Science &Technology, Computer Science, Biochemistry Molecular Biology,Mechanics,Mathematics, Telecommunications, and Crystallography. The study reveals that the output of Indian Institute of Science research Publications has greatly increased over period.