International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) ISSN: 2319-7064 ResearchGate Impact Factor (2018): 0.28 | SJIF (2018): 7.426 Volume 8 Issue 12, December 2019 www.ijsr.net Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY Bibliometric Profile of Dr. NSK Harsh Research Contribution Rama Bohra Research Scholar, DSB Campus, Kumaun University Nainital, India Abstract: This is a bibliometric study of the research contribution of Dr. NSK Harsh, Scientist forest research Institute Dehradun. This institute is one of the Institutes under Indian Council of forestry Research & Education which is an autonomous council of government of India, Ministry of Environment, and Forest & Climate Change. During the study period NSK Harsh published total 297 research publication. He published most of the papers from 2005 to 2009 and meantime total 72 research publication published by him. After that 60 research publications published in 2010 to 2014. Dr. NSK Harsh Most of the research publications are in the form of journal articles and conference papers. Dr NSK Harsh preferred Indian forester and journal of Tropical forestry to publish his articles. He publishes total 138 research publication as first author and 119 as 2 authors. K. Subramanyam formula used for Degree of collaboration. Keywords: research productivity, forest, Authorship pattern 1. Introduction Dr. N.S.K.Harsh scientist –G in Forest research Institute Dehradun, completed his schooling from Ramsay Inter College, Almora, Uttarakhand. He has done his Master degree (M.Sc.) in 1978 and Ph.D. in botany (1982) from Kumaun University Nainital. He joined FRI Dehradun in 1984 and retired in 2017 from Forest Research Institute Dehradun after giving a successful service of 33 years and 4 month. Dr. Harsh has almost 33 years research experience on fungi. He has more than 297 research papers, technical reports, conference papers, Books and chapters in books in his account. His major research field is forest pathology, wood-decay, plantations and forests, control of forestry diseases including their fungi, Taxonomy of higher fungi etc. Under his guidance more than 27 students have done their Ph.D. and approx 70 students from different Universities done M.Sc. dissertation work. Dr. N.S.K.Harsh was also gives advisory services for tree health to New Delhi Municipal Council, DDA, Central Public works Departments, Archaeological Survey of India and many others different departments. Nowadays, uses of bibliometric techniques are increasing day by day and it is an essential tool to evaluate research publications. “Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to study or measure texts and information. Similarly; the term Citation and content analysis are commonly used in bibliometric methods. These days’ bibliometric methods are not only used in the field of library and information science but bibliometric have wide applications in other areas also. In fact, many research fields are using bibliometric methods to explore the impact of their field, or the impact of a particular paper. 2. Literature Review 1) Sinha.S.C.and Furqan Ullah M (1993): - This is a bibliometric study of the research papers of scientists of central building research institute Roorki, situated at Uttarakhad. The SCI index was used by the author to collected data. In this study only articles published in national & international journals and conference proceedings are analyzed during the period of 1980 to 1990. 2) Vishnay and Deo (1993)- This bibliometric study was about the computerized information retrieval. For this study LISA database was analyzed and found about the subject wise growth, authorship pattern, journal literature & distribution, application of Bradford’s law and publishing pattern. 3) Bhattacharya, Patra, and Verma (2006) -This paper is a bibliometric study of bibliometric literature using data from LISA. Bradford’s and Lotka’s law have been used in this study. It is clear that authors’ distribution do not follow original law of Lotka’s. 4) Dhawan, S.M. And Gupta, B.M. (2007) - This study finds that India's physics related contribution is significantly high (86 per cent) in Science Citation Index (SCI)-covered journals, of which 26.4 per cent was in high-impact journals (IF = 1.5). Its contributions in condensed matter physics and materials science are significantly strong and have technological orientation. 5) Sevukan,R. and Sharma, Jaideep (2008) analyzed the research performance of biotechnology faculties in central universities of India during 1997 to 2006. For this study total 20 universities has been taken for the study and bibliometric techniques have been applied to conduct research. 6) Thanuskodi, S. (2010) -Main purpose of this study is to analyze the research production performance of social scientists. 7) Maharana, Rabindra K. & Sethi, Bipin Bihari (2013) -This article is a bibliometric analysis of scientific research productivity of Sambalpur University during the 2007-2011. 8) Pillai Sudhier K.G. (2013) - The main objective of this paper to analyze authorship pattern is physics literature and to examine the validity of lotka’s law of scientific productivity. It was found that using term complete count, a total of 3367 author identified and 1667 personal authors indentified using straight count. This study shows that lotka’ generalized law is not applicable to physics literature. Chi-squire test and K-s Test are applied to verify the applicability of lotka’s law of scientific productivity. Paper ID: 2121905 DOI: 10.21275/2121905 188