Quantitative measuring of research output of universities of Punjab in sciences based on scopus database (Period 1991–2014)

The paper brings out the results of a bibliometric study of research output of eight universities of Punjab namely Panjab University (PU), Punjabi University (PBU), Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Thapar University, IKG Punjab Technical University, Central University Bhatinda, and Lovely professional university in sciences. The analysis has been made for the two periods of time i.e. 1991–2002 and 2003–2014 for each university. The research activity of each university has been determined in terms of total publications, year wise distribution of papers, citations, authorship pattern, impact factor, h-index, collaborations within institute and foreign etc. The progress of each university has been compared between the periods of two decades and accordingly the ranking to the universities has been given both in terms of publication number and also in terms of total citations. In terms of h-index of each university, PU, GNDU and PAU were first second and third for the period 1991–2002 but for the period 2003–2014, PBU ranks third after PU and GNDU.