1Scientist-Information & Documentation New Product Development & Research (NPD & R) Corporate Centre, Synthite Industries (Pvt.) Ltd., Kolenchery, Kerala, India
2Assistant Professor DLIS, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
3Library Assistant Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author Ghouse Modin N. Mamdapur, ghouse@synthite.com
Online published on 26 June, 2021.
The present study analyses the scientific productivity of KarnatakUniversity, Dharwad for the period from 1960 to 2019 using the Scopus citation database. KarnatakUniversity, Dharwad is one of the premier higher educational institutions that cater to the educational needs of North Karnataka. A total of 4990 publications were extracted from the Scopus database. The investigation endeavors to quantify the growth of KUD's scholarly literature in terms of the authorship pattern, year-wise distribution of publications and citations, domain-wise distribution of publications, a ranking of authors, ranking of highly cited publications, collaboration, and so on. The results indicate that the Science faculty has contributed 4785 (95.89 %) publications out of 4990. Among the Departments, the Department of Chemistry contributed to 1701 (34.09 %) publications, followed by Physics (870, 17.43 %) and Polymer Science (523, 10.48 %). T.M. Aminabhavi found to be the most prolific author in KarnatakUniversity, Dharwad (491, 9.84 %), followed by S.T. Nandibewoor (364, 7.29 %). The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru was the most collaborated institute with KarnatakUniversity, Dharwad (102 publications), followed by Chonbuk National University, South Korea (94 publications). USA was the most collaborated country (258 publications, 8104 citations), followed by South Korea (161 publications, 3300 citations).
Karnatak University, Scientific Productivity, Publications Productivity, Contribution, Scientometric Analysis, Scopus
