Growth Analysis of Global Scientific Research on Covid-19 Pandemic A Scientometrics Analysis
Authors
Sahoo, Sidhartha and Pandey, Shriram
Source
Library Philosophy and Practice
Abstract
The purpose of present study is to evaluate the growth of scientific literature pertaining to Coronavirus disease 2019Covid-19. In sum 1630 document published during 01 January 2020 to 6 April, 2020. Publication data were retrieved from SCOPUS databases using key terms and detailed analysis were made to understand the publication trends, authorship and collaborative pattern, country-wise distribution, core journal and most leading institutes. Study found that 82.88 1351 of the research documents published on open-access platform which signify the rapid communication of research finding among global scientific communities. ⿿BMJ Clinical Research Ed⿿ found to be most productive journal with 1146.99 research articles. China USA dominates in the publishing research output of 51531.60 and 30818.90 respectively. There has been an unparalleled growth in the number of publications across the globe on COVID-19 since January 2020
Paper No
2
Publication ID : 787 & Year : 2020
Title
Essence of Evaluating e-Resources Usage in Scientific Libraries & Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis
Authors
Sahoo, Sidhartha and Mahapatra, R.K.
Source
Conference proceeding paper of National Seminar On Sustainable Library (NSSL-2020), Jadavpur University, 24-25 January, 2020, pp. 1-6.
Abstract
This paper presents the concept of ROI and challenges and opportunity of its implementation in scientific and research libraries. The essence of ROI in current scenario is very significant for the library and information managers to justifiable the amount spent for the subscription of scientific information resources. The paper discusses in details about usage statistics, standards, ROI formula in relation to electronic resources usage and also glimpses on the measures to be taken by the scientific libraries to enhance the usage of their e-resources. Integrated approaches to calculate ROI along with challenges are also briefly discussed.
Paper No
3
Publication ID : 790 & Year : 2020
Title
Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Global Ocean Acidification Research
Authors
Sidhartha Sahoo and Shriram Pandey
Source
Science Technology Libraries
Abstract
This comprehensive study focuses on analyzing the growth of research in the domain of ocean acidification using various bibliometric methods. Datasets were retrieved from Scopus databases using keywords pertaining to the subjects, and detailed analysis was made to understand the growth of literature, publication trends, authorship pattern, keywords, country-wise distribution, and leading institutes working in the subject domain of ocean acidification. The resultant data show that a significant portion 37.83 of the research documents are published in open-access journals. The finding shows that 76.06 of the total publication has published in the last seven years 2013⿿2019. In the year 2017, research in this subject reached its peak with the highest number of publications 697 12.54. The top 15 journals published around 34.04 1,891 of the entire research documents. GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has produced the highest number of research papers 5.42 followed by Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Germany 4.66, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the USA, with 4.39 of research documents. It has been found that Biogeosciences published by European Geosciences Union is the most preferred journal by researchers for publishing their work followed by Plos One covering around 215 3.87 papers and Marine Ecology Progress Series of 166 2.99 articles. A significant portion of the research documents are published in the sub-subject domain of Agricultural and Biological Sciences 55.31, followed by Environmental Science 42.03 and Earth and Planetary Sciences subject domains 37.99. There has been an unparalleled growth of ocean acidification research during the last decade.
Paper No
4
Publication ID : 792 & Year : 2020
Title
Evaluating research performance of Coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic using scientometric indicators
Authors
Sidhartha Sahoo and Shriram Pandey
Source
Online Information Review
DOI 10.1108OIR-06-2020-0252
Abstract
Abstract
Purpose
This study is an attempt to evaluating the growth of scientific literature in the domain of coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic research based on scientometric indicators prolific countries and relative citation impact RCI influential institutions author analysis and network, h-index and citation DC degree of collaboration, CC collaboration coefficient, MCI modified collaboration index in the subject domain of coronavirus and Covid-19 research.
Designmethodologyapproach
The authors adopted approaches to obtain the literature data from Scopus database from 2000 to 2020 by conducting a systematic search using keywords related to the studied subject domain. In total, 15,297 numbers of records were considered for the literature analysis considering the real significant growth of this subject domain. This study presented the scientometric analysis of these publications. Furthermore, statistical correlations have been used to understand the collaboration pattern. Visualization tool VOSviewer is used to construct the co-author network.
Findings
The present study found that 53.57 8,195 of the research documents published on the open-access platform. Journal of Virology was found to be most preferred journal by the researcher producing around 8395.48 articles. USA and China dominate in the research output, and the University of Hong Kong has produced the highest number of research paper 5473.58. A significant portion of the research documents are published in the subject domain of medicine 49.70, followed by immunology and microbiology 35.72, and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology subject domains 22.32. There has been an unparalleled proliferation of publications on COVID-19 since January 2020 and also a significant distribution of research funds across the globe.
Research limitationsimplications
The study exclusively examines 15,297 research outputs which have been indexed in the Scopus database from 2000 to 2020 till 01 April 2020. Thus, documents published in any other different channels and sources which are not covered in Scopus are excluded from the purview of research.
Practical implications
It will be beneficial for researchers and practitioners worldwide for understanding the growth of scientific literature in the coronavirus and COVID-19 and identifying potential collaborator.
Originalityvalue
Considering the global impact and social distress due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, this study is significant in the present scenario for identifying the growth of scientific literature in this field and evolving of this domain of research around the globe. The research results are useful to identify valuable research patterns from publications and of developments in the field of coronavirus and COVID-19.
Paper No
5
Publication ID : 786 & Year : 2019
Title
Usability and Return on Investment (ROI) of Electronic Information Resources: An Evaluative Study on Selected Scientific & Research Institutes Libraries in Odisha
Authors
Sahoo, Sidhartha; Mahapatra, R.K. and Pandey, Shriram
Source
Library Philosophy and Practice
Abstract
The paper outlines the perspective of electronic resources in scientific and research libraries and effective methods to utilize maximum so that the amount spend can be justifiable. Sixteen scientific & research institute libraries are surveyed for the purpose of present study. The study discuss various methods to evaluate usages of e-resources so that it can help to the management to make a wiser decision in investing huge amount of expenditures on it. The library services can be extended and customized, to reflect user interests suiting the users the most, in the light of the evaluation and analysis done. The study highlights the importance of quantitative analysis of the usage of e-resources in research libraries an integrated approaches to calculate ROI in terms of research output (publications)
Paper No
6
Publication ID : 789 & Year : 2019
Title
E-Resources Usage and Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis of Selected Libraries of Odisha
Authors
Sahoo, S., Mahapatra, R.K.
Source
Library Waves 5(2), pp. 42-50.
Abstract
In present study five selected leading scientific & research libraries of Odisha were covered. The details of their electronic resources and services provided by these libraries are briefly discussed. Publications of respective institutes were retrieved from SCOPUS databases and attempt was made to analyze ROI value in term of their research publications. ROI values ranges from 1.02% to 4.88% which signify the positive impact of e-resources on the research growth and activities of institutes. The paper also briefly discussed the measures to taken by the research libraries to enhance the usage of e-resources which will provide positive results/returns
Paper No
7
Publication ID : 239 & Year : 2010
Title
Research contributions of J.S. Yadav to chemical sciences:a scientometric study
Authors
SJD Varaprasad, Sidhartha Sahoo, Madhusudhan S
Source
Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science (ISSN 1394-6234)Vol.15, No.2,Page No.41-55.August 2010.
Abstract
This paper highlights quantitatively the growth and development of chemical science research by
J.S.Yadav during the period from 1986-2009. During this period he has published 722 papers (702
research articles) in various domains. The data used was from Thomson/ISI Web of Science. This
study attempts to evaluate the publications of J.S. Yadav in relation to his contribution to the
knowledge domain of chemical science and his role for the advancement of chemical science in India
and elsewhere in a span of about two and half decades. His papers have been scattered in 56 high
impact factor scientific journals. The percentage of collaborative work (99.7) was very high. His
highest degree of collaboration 0.1925, was found during 2002-2003.The h index of 41 after 24 years
of scientific activity is a clear indication of his consistent publication productivity behaviour.
Keywords: Scientometrics; Bibliometrics; Citation studies; Publication productivity; h-index; Organic chemistry; Role model scientists.
