MAPPING THE RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY OF BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY

Abstract

The study presents the growth and the contribution of research carried out by the scientists of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). The pattern of communications of authors and scattering of their research output in different journals, analysis the strong and weak areas of university research. The data for the study was taken from the Web of Science online database published by Institute for Scientific information (ISI). The study shows that there was a gradual growth of publications during 2000 - 2011. The annual average research output of BHU was 578 records and the research output of the scientists is fairly collaborative. “Current Science” is one of the most preferred journals of the authors of BHU. The Institute of Technology leads in publications productivity with 1482 (21.3%) articles. The authors of BHU have been collaborated with the foreign authors for their research work.