JNU Seminar on “Genesis of Indian Citation Index and Its impact on the Scholarship” by Prakash Chand on 30 November at 3.00 pm
Anup Kumar Das
Centre for Studies in Science Policy
SEMINAR SERIES
“Genesis of Indian Citation Index and Its impact on the Scholarship”
By
Prakash Chand
Former Senior Scientist at NISCAIR, CSIR, New Delhi
Project Head, Indian Citation Index (ICI)
Venue: Room no. 227, SSS(I)
Time: 3.00 pm
Date: Wednesday, 30th November 2011
Abstract
International Citation Databases such as Science Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus, play very important role in evaluating scientific contributions of institutions, individuals as well as countries. However, those databases do not cover sufficient literature from developing countries, like India. Thus, a large chunk of literature originated from India is unavailable to the users of those databases. Indian Citation Index has become operational and a user can evaluate research productivity of institutions and individuals, journals’ performance, collaboration patterns and so on. User can also count citations of papers published in Indian journals.
Seminar Coordinators
Saradindu Bhaduri & R. D’Souza