Research Productivity of Agricultural Scientists of Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack: A Study

Abstract

This paper describes results of research productivity study of agricultural scientists at Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the research performance of CRRI Scientists. The study includes citations of 586 papers collected from the Annual Reports of CRRI, Cuttack for a period of 14 years from 1996-2009. This paper has identified publication trends with regard to subject area, journals, authorship pattern, collaboration, etc. Findings of the study indicate that journal article (72.69%) is the predominant type of publication. The authorship collaboration at CRRI was identified to be very low i.e. 0.15. The individual productivity reveals that 96.68% of the authors have published only ten or less number of articles during the period. Dr. T. K. Adhya was the highest productive author with 55 articles. Oryza has the highest frequency of publication of CRRI articles.