1Research Scholar, Department of Library & Information Science, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
2University Librarian, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine the authorship pattern and collaborative research work of the Kumaun University through scientometric methods.
Methodology: The SodhSindhu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate databases are chosen for the data extraction and total 320 articles are downloaded from the databases for the period of 2010 - 2014. Search strings ‘Kumaun University’, ‘Chemistry’, ‘Physics’. ‘Botany’, ‘Geology’, ‘Name of Faculty Members’, ‘Year’, etc are used to extract the papers. Statistical software SPSS 20 and MS Excel were used for refining, presentation and analysis of the collected data as per the objectives of the study. Statistical tools such as Degree of Collaboration, Collaboration Index and Dominance Factor are used.
Findings: The findings of the study exhibits that there is multi authored papers are dominant and Degree of Collaboration is 0.95. Professor L.M. Tewari of Botany Department is rank one and P.K. Goswami & R. Upadhyay, both Professors of Geology and P.K. Mishra, Assistant Professor of Physics rank first with Dominance Factor (DF) value 1. Each department faculty members are interested for the collaboration within the department and USA and Uttarakhand State of India is most favoured collaborative country and State respectively. However, Collaborative research dominates the pattern of publication with multiple author publications accounting for more than 90% of the total frequency of publication, which proves the hypothesis.
Conclusions: concluded that department should not restrict them for the collaboration within the department or within their state, but they should collaborate with other state of India. Similarly, they can sign MOU with different developed and developing countries, so that their research publications can increase and best research output can come.
