A STUDY ON COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND AUTHORSHIP PATTERN IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINE AT TEZPUR UNIVERSITY
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Collaborative Research, Authorship Pattern, Degree of CollaborationAbstract
This study evaluate the research collaboration and pattern of authorship in physical science discipline of Tezpur University. Based on the Scopus publication data (2089), this study found that the share of two-authored papers are significantly high (588) than single-authored papers (74). The highest 96% are multi-authored documents and the highest 28.16% are two-authored papers which indicating the significant collaborative research trend in the physical science discipline at Tezpur University. Prof. Niranjan Karak, from department of Chemical Science, has the highest publications (147 articles) with highest 39 h index, 69 g-index, and 5602 numbers of citations. This study findings also evident that average degree of collaboration (0.96), Collaborative Index (3.13), Collaboration Co-efficient (0.65), and the highest MCC (0.68) found in the year 2019. The relative growth rate (RGR) has decreased from 0.89 to 0.12 while doubling time (Dt) increasing from 0.78 to 5.77. Since 96% of the publications were published as multi authored, thus collaborative efforts among the scholar can lead to more citation impact. It further accelerates the problem solving with inter disciplinary collaboration. Funding agency can gain better return on investment (ROI), while policy maker of Tezpur University can better rely on this study finding for taking evidentiary decision.
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