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Research Output of Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology India Indexed in
Scopus during 2004-2013: A bibliometric analysis
Manoj Kumar Sa
Abstract
T his Paper presented the research output of Institute of Mineral and Material Technology India. it has been
analyzed the yearly distribution of publication, growth rate, most productive authors, most preferential
subject area, most favored document type, most productive journal, most frequent keywords, most produc-
tive institutions, most productive country, most favored source type, authorship pattern, degree of collabo-
ration, multiple authors vs. single author, length of the publications, most cited authors etc. it is observed
from the study that highest number of publication contributed in 2011 with 65(15.51%) publications,
Average growth rate of publications is 7.43%, Parida, K. M. is the most productive author of this study with
107(25.54%)publications, Chemistry is the most favored subject area of the study with 144(34.37%) publica-
tions, Article is the most preferential document type with 365(87.11%) publications, Journal of Molecular
Catalysis A Chem ical is the most productive journal with 26(6.21%) publications, Keyword 'Article' used
highest number of times with 82(19.57%) publications, Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology itself
contributed 419(100%) publications, India is the most productive country with 419(100%) number of pub-
lications, Journal is the most favored source type with 383(91.41%), Domination of multiple authors on
single author, Degree of collaboration is 0.98, Number of publication from pages 6-10 is highest with
258(61.58%) publications and Besra L., Liu M. are the most cited authors.
Keywords: Bibliometrics, IMMT, Scopus, Degree of Collaboration, Citation Analysis
1. Introduction
Bibliometric is a research methodology used to
quantitative evaluation of the research output of the
institutions/ organizations, journals, books, articles
etc. it is often used in field of library and informa-
tion science including webometrics and
scientometrics. Citation analysis and content analy-
sis these two terms are often used in bibliometric
study. The term Bibliometrics was defined by Alan
Pritchard in 1969 in a paper “Statistical Bibliography
or Bibliometrics” as “the application of mathematics
and statistical methods to books and other media of
Communication”.
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Bibliometric analysis determined the impact of the
articles, authors, institutions, geographical places,
citation analysis, journal citation as well as makes
comparatives statement among authorship pattern
of publications, geographical distribution of publi-
cation, source wise distribution of publications, docu-
ment type wise distributions of publications.
2. Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology
India at a Glance
Institute of Minerals and Material Technology
(IMMT) was established in the year 1964 in
Bhubaneswar,Odisha by the council of scientific and
industrial research (CSIR),New Delhi. it was previ-
ously known as Regional Research Laboratory,
Bhubaneswar is an advanced research institute in