An Analysis of Research Productivity of Indian Institute of Technology’s (IITs) with Special Reference to ResearchGate

Authors

  • B. Jeyapragash Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
  • T. Rajkumar Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2019.9.2.623

Keywords:

Academic Social Networking Sites, ResearchGate, Social Networking Sites and Indian Institute of Technology and IIT’s

Abstract

This paper examines the memberships and research contributions of Indian Institute of Technology’s (IITs) in ResearchGate. The data were extracted from ResearchGate website (https://www.researchgate.net) for this study during first week of September 2017. It was found that 18 IITs have contributed and also shared the research information through ResearchGate. Further the data was analyzed by Memberships of Faculties and Research Scholars, Research Contributions, ResearchGate (RG) Scores of IITs. It is found that the Indian Institute of Technology; Bombay has more members (8,439) with 6,320 publications and very less members by the Indian Institute of Technology; Palakkad has 15 members with no publications. It is suggested that Mandi, Gandhinagar, Jodhpur and palakkad IITs should come forward to contribute their research contributions in ResearchGate.

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26-04-2019

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B. Jeyapragash, & T. Rajkumar. (2019). An Analysis of Research Productivity of Indian Institute of Technology’s (IITs) with Special Reference to ResearchGate. Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services, 9(2), 58–62. https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2019.9.2.623

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2019): April-June 2019

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