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Impact Factor (IIFS) - 0.331 http:// www.klibjlis.com eISSN No. 2394-2479 BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF PH.D. THESES IN ZOOLOGY OF VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO JOURNAL CITATIONS Ratna Sangiri * ABSTRACT: - Bibliometrics or the statistical study of bibliographic * Librarian, Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore, West Bengal, India. information is a specialized area in Library and Information Science research. It is an important tools or techniques to study different area both literature cited and literature provided by the researchers. The present study is an attempt QR Code to know the citation pattern of journals used by the research scholars of Zoology of Vidyasagar University by using bibliometrics techniques. KEY WORDS – Bibliometrics Study; Zoology and Citation Analysis Doctoral degree acts as an indicator of 1. Introduction ‘Research Productivity’ has been gaining quality of higher education. A doctoral degree or growing importance in last one decade. Faculty PhD is the highest academic degree, which is members of the universities in India have two awarded to the students for undertaking original functions to perform, teaching and research. work that advances knowledge and understanding. Teaching is one of the canonically performed They demonstrate their expertise in a particular functions. However, research in Universities has subject or field of investigation. A degree of gained momentum during the past one and half doctorate is a certificate to the effect that the decade, mainly due to support received through learner has now achieved a sound academic PhD program, in-house projects and extra-mural knowledge that should enable him/her to conduct funding projects form major government scientists and present research of a scholarly nature and agencies. The research output of the university fulfill the requirements of a teaching faculties at scientists in the form of research papers and leading institutions. theses is being considered as one of the main criteria for assessing the university scientists and faculty. performance of A PhD degree is the one universally accepted research qualification which facilitates the doctorates to collaborate with their counterparts across the world. “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 6 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 Dissertation or thesis becomes an integral • Zoology: part of the research process act as a vehicle to Zoology, the study of animals, includes transmit the results of research. Research and both the inquiry into individual animals and their development cannot be envisaged without the constituent parts, even to the molecular level, the communication of results of research. Calvin inquiry into animal populations, entire faunas, the James Boyer said that, the research process is relationship of animals to each other, to plants, incomplete if the research results are not used or and to the nonliving environment. not made readily accessible to the potentially interested researchers. Each originator wish that • Bibliometrics: the result of the doctoral research as reported in Bibliometrics or the statistical study of the dissertation or thesis is disseminated to bibliographic information is a specialized area in interested audience. In a summary of the Library and Information Science research. It may McPhie’s dissertation, published in Social be subsumed under a broader field, informetrics, Education, he concluded by recommending that, which covers the mathematical theory and each doctoral student should be responsible for modeling of all aspects of information. publishing at least one good summary article of The term Bibliometrics has a recent origin. his thesis in a professional journal that will reach It is analogous to Ranganathan’s librametrics, the the appropriate group of readers. The dissertation Russian and the publications based on those dissertations informetrics and also to some well established serve the purpose of communicating significant sub-disciplines like econometrics, psychometrics, research results for the advancement of human sociometrics, biometrics. Here mathematical and race. statistical formulation have been systematically concept scientometrics, FID’s India invests a huge amount of fund and applied to solve the problems in the fields of time in the creation of doctorates to meet its library science, scientific knowledge, Information ‘R&D’ requirement. Very few studies have been Science, Economics, Psychology, Sociology and made to compare and evaluate the research output Biology. of the universities and R&D organizations of Allan West Bengal. Evaluation of research institutions is ‘Bibliometrics` in 1969 in preference to the very important for their ranking, proper funding, existing terminology ‘statistical billiography’, as grant releasing etc. In recent past National he felt the latter has some built in ambiguity in it Assessment and there is a likelihood to misinterpret it as and Accreditation Pritchard first coined the term Council (NAAC)has started evaluating overall ‘bibliograqphy activities of our universities in India. Bibliometrics as the application of mathematical of statistics’. He defined “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 7 http:// www.klibjlis.com methods to books and e6S66 No. 2394-2479 other media communications. We may define Bibliometrics more explicitly as follows: system; of xi. To study obsolescence and dispersion of scientific literature; xii. To predict productivity of publishers, individual authors; xiii. To organizations, country or that of an entire discipline; xiv. To design automatic language processing, ‘Organization, classification and quantitative evaluation of publication patterns of all macro and micro communications along with their authorship by mathematical and statistical calculations.’ • abstracting and auto classification; Application of Bibliometrics The techniques of bibliometric have xv. To develop norms for standardization. extensive applications equally in sociological studies of science, information management, Bibliometrics is a major sub-discipline of librarianship, history of science including quantitative research. Bibliometric methods are science policy, study of science and also in used in studies of properties and behavior of different branches of social sciences. Some of recorded knowledge, analysis of the structures of the areas where bibliometric techniques can be scientific research and evaluation of research used are: activities. It is relevant for researchers to track the trend in the specific field in their research work. i. To identify research trends and growth of knowledge; ii. To estimate comprehensiveness of secondary periodicals; Bibliometric studies should be encouraged to evaluate research performance of any specific field of research in a country. iii. To identify users of different subjects; iv. To identify authorship and its trends in documents on various subjects; 2. Problems To measures the usefulness of adhoc and retrospective Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)services; objective of the investigation and a particular aim To develop experimental mode correlating existing ones Bengal imparting advanced studies of Zoology at vii. To identify core periodicals in different disciplines; no specific effort has been made to evaluate the viii. To formulate an accurate need based v. vi. acquisition policy within the limited budgetary provision; The problem is the specification of the to be achieved. There are six universities in West Post Graduate (P.G) and research level. However research contribution of these universities on the following aspects: i) Research output on the specific subject of individual university i.e. how many theses ix. To adopt an accurate weeding and stacking policy; are submitted in different years in the area x. To initiate effective multilevel network of Zoology? “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 8 http:// www.klibjlis.com ii) iii) iv) e6S66 No. 2394-2479 Report of the research has neither been Research in Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. published in a professional journal nor However, the objectives of this study are to find easy to access even if published. out: Proper steps have not been taken up by the 1. An exhaustive list of PhD theses on universities or the institutions to know Zoology conducted by the university. the trend of research on the subject in 2. Year-wise distribution of research output. the region. 3. Physical Through this study a clear picture will be in University Newsletters or some reflected about the research outputs, other on-line university databases are researchers and supervisors. This includes also not sufficient due to negligence of : • information to the respective authority. What are the different sources • of • language? core journal? Supervising patterns, year-wise their rank 4. Subject-wise distribution of PhD theses. 5. Number of citation appended to the the researchers? What is the commonly cited journal and bibliographic distribution of supervisors and vii) What is the trend of authorship pattern of ix) of thesis according to the subject, country and viii) Which are the frequently cited journals by Distribution pages, chapters used in different How the citations are being distributed the cited journal article? Year-wise submission, number and frequency of words used in title. information cited in the theses? vi) of PhD thesis. Information about research activities found the researcher to provide necessary v) description theses. 6. Authorship pattern in the citation. 7. Type and form of literature being used. Present exhaustive bibliometric study is an 8. The language of the journals cited. attempt to investigate the prevalent situation of 9. Distribution of journals by the country of zoological research in Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. origin. 10. Age distribution of the citations as well as to identify core and allied journals in 3. Objective of the Study: the disciplines. Present study is being carried out to identify the research trend as well as to make a bibliometric study on the subject of Zoological “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 9 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 the subject are identified. 4. Methodology: Present work is based on the study of seventy 6. Appropriate tables and other figures are PhD theses in Zoology accepted by Vidyasagar prepared to analyze the data to find out University from the beginning of its research necessary results. programme till the end of year 2014, which are 7. Trend of research on the subject are find available in the Central Library. Following steps out by preparing subject wise and year are followed as the methodology of the present wise distribution of the PhD theses. research work. 1. The literature cited in the Ph.D. thesis of Zoology is the basic source of information to assess the information used by the researchers. Accordingly the references cited in the Ph.D. thesis have been taken as the source data. 2. Individual theses are observed physically and the bibliographic information are collected. Identify various branches of the subject by following appropriate method and find out the specific area on which a research work has been carried out by the researcher to know the subject- wise distribution of the theses. 3. A careful investigation are carried out on Thesis-wise various work sheet diagrams have been designed and generated for the purpose of data collection. Initially data have been collected and tabulated in excel sheet with various fields. Consequently the required analysis has been done to identify and satisfy the objectives formulated above. 5. Facts and Findings After physical observation an attempt is made to recognize the content analysis of the seventy PhD theses in Zoology considering following observations: Year wise distribution of PhD theses has been shown in the table, where year wise number of PhD theses, percentage of all theses has been presented. the citation appended in a thesis to know the number of citations, authorship pattern Year No of Theses Percentage of submitted Theses 1999 1 1.43 2000 2 2.86 2001 1 1.43 2002 10 14.29 2003 3 4.285 2004 6 8.57 of the citations, type and form of literature, language of the journals cited and their country of origin. 4. Age distribution of the citation and halflife of the document on the subject are presented by analyzing the citations. 5. The core journals and allied journals on “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 10 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 2005 7 10 2006 4 5.71 2007 6 8.57 2008 4 5.71 2009 6 8.57 2010 8 11.43 2011 2 2.86 2012 6 8.57 2013 3 4.285 2014 1 1.43 Total 70 100.00 The highest number of theses i.e. 10 (14.29%) was submitted in the year 2002 and the lowest number of theses are only 1 (1.43%) each for three years i.e. 1999, 2001 and 2014. Average theses were guided by single supervisor. From the study it is clear that in Zoology Department of Vidyasagar University only 13 (18.57%) researchers were female. Maximum 57 (81.43%) researchers were male. So that it is clear that higher education is restricted in male member in our society, if all of us get equal opportunity. Maximum number of bibliographic page 16-20 has in 14 theses. Maximum number of theses i.e. 22 has 7 chapters. number of theses submission per year is 4.375. The highest number of theses i.e. 10 (14.29%) was submitted in the year 2002, The highest number of theses i.e. 26 (37.14%) was submitted under the subject Fisheries and next in the subject Ecology, total theses is 21 i.e. (30%). The grand average number of citations per dissertation is 257.34 citations. Out of 70 Ph.D. theses maximum 42 (60%) theses were supervised by double supervisors. Only 28 (40%) “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 11 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 5.1 Citation Analysis of the Doctoral Dissertations The main objective of this study is to find out the different characteristics of cited documents like journals, journal articles, books, conference papers, conference proceedings, and theses and dissertations only. Bibliographic forms used by the researchers have been shown in Table 2. No. of Citation % of Citation No. of cumulative Citation % of Cum Citation Periodicals 14077 78.14 14077 78.14 2350 13.05 16427 91.19 3 Books Conference Paper 607 3.37 17034 94.56 4 Theses and Dissertations 216 1.20 17250 95.76 5 Reports 189 1.05 17439 96.81 6 Govt Publication 156 0.87 17595 97.67 7 Univ Publication 125 0.69 17720 98.37 8 Web 97 0.54 17817 98.91 9 Course material 36 0.20 17853 99.11 10 Bulletin 35 0.19 17888 99.30 11 Reviews 29 0.16 17917 99.46 12 Occasional Paper 22 0.12 17939 99.58 13 Newsletter 17 0.09 17956 99.68 14 Working Paper 16 0.09 17972 99.77 15 Newspaper 15 0.08 17987 99.85 16 Souveniour 11 0.06 17998 99.91 17 Monograph 8 0.04 18006 99.96 18 Mannual 7 0.04 18013 99.99 19 Leaflet 1 0.01 18014 100.00 Name of the Bibliographic Forms Serial No. 1 2 Table 2: Bibliographic forms of the citations Necessary outcomes of the Table are as follows: Total number of citations in the theses under study are 18014. The highest numbers of citations are recorded in periodicals with 14077 (78.14%) citations. This indicates that the journals are the most preferred source of information used by the researchers in Zoology. Books are the second most cited source accounting for 2350 (13.05%) citations. Journal article and book citations both constitute 91.19% citations of the total citations. “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 12 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 Proceedings of conferences/symposia/workshops etc. constitute 607 (3.37%) citations and which is the third most cited source followed by dissertations with 216 (1.20%) citations. Use of modern technology i.e. Web resources citations are very low i.e. 97 (0.54%) citations. Present study covered the theses submitted from1999. During that time web resource or electronics resources are not so popular and access was also not so easy. 5.1.1 Year-wise Distribution of Bibliographic Forms Year-wise distribution of the three main bibliographic form of literature is presented in Table 3 and necessary information obtained from the Table are as follows: Year of Submission Form 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 342 141 184 2150 774 1513 1347 566 1530 820 884 1658 250 1078 680 160 36 53 30 369 170 230 129 145 153 110 141 376 45 209 141 13 3 13 6 41 18 65 37 56 57 80 44 68 5 77 21 16 1 2 9 29 11 20 11 5 29 22 10 35 0 23 6 3 Periodicals Books Conf. Paper Theses Table 3: distribution of bibliographic form of literature The highest number of overall periodical citations has been recorded in the year 2002 with 2150 citations and the least number of citations ware 141 in the year 2000. The highest number of overall book citations is recorded in the year 2002 with 369 citations and the least being 13 citations in 2014. The highest overall conference paper citations were recorded in the year 2008 with 80 citations and the least with 3 citation in1999. The uppermost overall citation to theses and dissertation citations was evident in the year 2010 with 35 citations and the least was 0 citations in the year 2011. “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 13 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 5.1.2 Year wise Distribution of Citation Year- wise distribution of citations has been presented in Table 4 with the following findings: Serial No. Year No. of Dissertation No. of Citation Average No. of Citation % of Citation No. of cumulative Citation % of Cum Citation 1 1999 1 390 390.00 2.16 390 2.16 2 2000 2 230 115.00 1.28 620 3.44 3 2001 1 231 231.00 1.28 851 4.72 4 2002 10 2655 265.50 14.74 3506 19.46 5 2003 3 1005 335.00 5.58 4511 25.04 6 2004 6 1871 311.83 10.39 6382 35.43 7 2005 7 1573 224.71 8.73 7955 44.16 8 2006 4 799 199.75 4.44 8754 48.60 9 2007 6 1817 302.83 10.09 10571 58.68 10 2008 4 1159 289.75 6.43 11730 65.12 11 2009 6 1140 190.00 6.33 12870 71.44 12 2010 8 2283 285.38 12.67 15153 84.12 13 2011 2 306 153.00 1.70 15459 85.82 14 2012 6 1466 244.33 8.14 16925 93.95 15 2013 3 876 292.00 4.86 17801 98.82 16 2014 1 213 213.00 1.18 18014 100.00 Table 4: Year- wise distribution of citations The maximum number of average citations per dissertation is 390 citations in the year 1999 and the minimum is 115 citations in the year2000. The average number of citations per dissertation is calculated to be 257.34 during the period under study. “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 14 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 5.1.3 Distribution of Citations in Dissertations Table 5 shows the distribution of citations in dissertation. Serial No. Number of Citation No. of Dissertation % of Dissertation No. of cumulative Dissertation % of Cum Dissertation 1 01-50 1 1.43 1 1.43 2 51-100 5 7.14 6 8.57 3 101-150 9 12.86 15 21.43 4 151-200 7 10.00 22 31.43 5 201-250 14 20.00 36 51.43 6 251-300 13 18.57 49 70.00 7 301-350 8 11.43 57 81.43 8 351-400 6 8.57 63 90.00 9 401-450 2 2.86 65 92.86 10 451-500 1 1.43 66 94.29 11 501-550 2 2.86 68 97.14 12 551-600 2 2.86 70 100.00 Table 5: citations in dissertation It has been found from the Table thatThe maximum number of references per dissertation is between 201-250 citations in 14 (20%) dissertations, closely followed by 250-299 citations in 13 (18.57%) dissertations and minimum is between1-50 and 451-500 citations in 1 (1.43%) dissertations. “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 15 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 5.1.4 Analysis of the Journal Citations Journals are the carriers of the latest information and are the most important components of the information resources used by researchers. Most of the research output and original findings or new application of existing knowledge are reported in journals. This study covers the following observations. 5.1.4.1 Distribution of Journal Citations Information obtained from theses in respect of journal citation in references are as follows: Serial No. Number of Journal Citation No. of Dissertation % of Dissertation No. of cumulative Dissertation % of Cum Dissertation 1 01-20 2 2.86 2 2.86 2 21-40 7 10.00 9 12.86 3 41-60 10 14.29 19 27.14 4 61-80 9 12.86 28 40.00 5 81-100 10 14.29 38 54.29 6 101-120 13 18.57 51 72.86 7 121-140 7 10.00 58 82.86 8 141-160 3 4.29 61 87.14 9 161-180 5 7.14 66 94.29 10 181-200 4 5.71 70 100.00 Table 6: Journal Citations The maximum number of journal citations per dissertation is between 101-120 citations in 13 (18.57%) dissertations and the minimum is between 1-20 citations in 2 (2.86%) dissertations. The average number of journal citations per doctoral dissertation during 1999- 2014 is calculated as 22.75 citations. “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 16 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 5.1.4.2 Country wise Distribution of Journal Citations All cited journals are published from different countries. The published countries are tabulated and analyzed in Table 7. Serial No. Country of Publication Rank No. of Citation % of Citation No. of cumulative Citations % of Cum Citation 1 USA 1 470 29.50 470 29.50 2 UK 2 246 15.44 716 44.95 3 India 3 240 15.07 956 60.01 4 Germany 4 109 6.84 1065 66.85 5 Netherlands 5 99 6.21 1164 73.07 6 Japan 6 51 3.20 1215 76.27 7 Canada 7 40 2.51 1255 78.78 8 France 8 37 2.32 1292 81.10 9 China 9 27 1.69 1319 82.80 10 Poland 9 27 1.69 1346 84.49 11 Brazil 11 19 1.19 1365 85.69 12 Egypt 11 19 1.19 1384 86.88 13 New Zealand 13 18 1.13 1402 88.01 14 South Africa 13 18 1.13 1420 89.14 15 Australia 15 16 1.00 1436 90.14 16 Italy 15 16 1.00 1452 91.15 17 Pakistan 17 11 0.69 1463 91.84 18 Chez Republic 18 8 0.50 1471 92.34 19 Hungary 18 8 0.50 1479 92.84 20 Israel 18 8 0.50 1487 93.35 21 Rest other countries 21 106 6.65 1593 100.00 Table 7: Country wise distribution of journal citations Findings of country wise distribution of journal citations are given below: The most of the journal citations come from USA with 470 (29.5%) citations and followed by UK with 246 (15.44%)citations and India with 240 (15.07%). Only top three countries (USA, UK, India) cover 60.01% of cited journals, top 8 countries cover “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 17 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 81.10% of total citations, top 16 countries cover 91.15 percent citations and remaining other countries cover 8.85 percent citations. 5.1.4.3 Language Distribution of Journal Citations Out of the total number of Journal cited, almost all of them were English language journals. Specifically 98.79% of cited journals were in English some which have other language editions available. Rest other 1.21% journals were in other languages, predominantly French-0.45%, German-0.29% and Japanese -0.2%. Other language journals cited have very low percentage as most of the researchers didn’t have understanding in other foreign language except English. Also availability of these Journals in languages other than English is very low. 5.1.4.4 Chronological Distribution of Journal Citations The foundation year of the cited journals are grouped and tabulated into 13 separate groups as given in Table 8. Serial No. Period of Publication No. of Citation % of Citation No. of cumulative Citations % of Cum Citation 1 Prior to 1900 128 8.14 128 8.14 2 1901-1910 81 5.15 209 13.29 3 1911-1920 70 4.45 279 17.74 4 1921-1930 59 3.75 338 21.49 5 1931-1940 112 7.12 450 28.61 6 1941-1950 81 5.15 531 33.76 7 1951-1960 133 8.46 664 42.21 8 1961-1970 228 14.49 892 56.71 9 1971-1980 241 15.32 1133 72.03 10 1981-1990 181 11.51 1314 83.53 11 1991-2000 119 7.57 1433 91.10 12 2001-2010 106 6.74 1539 97.84 13 2011-till date 34 2.16 1573 100.00 .The researchers prefer the most of the journal with 241 (15.32%) citations in the period 1971-1980, followed by 228 (14.49%) citations in the period 1961-1970 and 181 (11.51%) “Knowledge Librarian” An International Peer Reviewed Bilingual E-Journal of Library and Information Science Volume: 03, Issue: 05, Sept. – Oct. 2016 Pg. Nos. 06-019 Page | 18 http:// www.klibjlis.com e6S66 No. 2394-2479 citations in the period1981-1990. So, it is clear that, Researchers of Zoology Prefer the journal from 1961-1990, which covers 41.32% 5.1.4.5 Ranking of the Journal Citations “Aquaculture” occupies the first rank with 671 (4.77%) citations of the total journal citations and followed by “Hydrobiologia” with 542 (3.85%)citations. The Journal Article citations with 14077 citations are scattered in 1593 different Journal citations 5.1.4.6 Frequency wise Analysis of Journal Citations The present study reveals that Quarterly (4/year) journals are the most cited journals by the researchers which account for 434 (27.24%) citations and followed by Monthly (12/year) with a share of 302 (18.96%)citations 6. Conclusion Any research work played an important role for development of that subject. It is very much essential for any researcher to know the doctoral research works carried out in other university departments in our country. Researchers are unable to get any authentic source to know about the research going on. 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