http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63227 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:26:16 GMT 2026-10-09T18:26:16Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63233 Title: Retraction Notices of COVID-19 Publications: A Comprehensive Analysis Authors: Awasthi, Shipra; Nisha, Faizul; Das, Suman; Tripathi, Manorama Abstract: The study focused on retracted research publications related to COVID-19 from 2020 to 2023. Two hundred eighty records were collected from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Among these, 182 articles, including withdrawn papers, were selected for the study. The research aimed to identify the reasons for retraction, the number of citations received by retracted articles, the parties responsible for initiating retraction requests, and the top publisher with the highest number of retracted articles. The findings revealed that the journal editors mostly retracted journal articles. The most common reasons for retraction were related to scientific misconduct and issues with authorship. Springer and Elsevier were the publishers with the highest number of articles retracted. Geographic-based results indicated that single-author publications had a higher retraction rate compared to collaborations involving multiple authors. However, there was evidence of strong international collaboration between India and the USA. The study identified the top two core journals for retracted articles: Soft Computing and Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Additionally, publishers like Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley published 36 funded articles which were retracted. Page(s): 106-116 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63233 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63232 Title: NorPOnt: Creation of a domain ontology for S R Ranganathan’s normative principles in library and information science Authors: Abhijith, B.; Sudhier, K.G. Abstract: S. R. Ranganathan formulated several rules and guidelines for classification and cataloguing, and normative principles are one among them. The present study aims to develop an ontology on normative principles (NorPOnt) so that it will improve data connection, knowledge representation, and search strategies. Protégé software was utilised to develop the ontology and the built-in Pellet Reasoner Plug-in was used to investigate for inconsistencies and found none. Competency questions (CQs) were created to measure the satisfaction level of select experts in using the ontology. The mean satisfactory level was found to be 3.24, which indicates that satisfactory and highly satisfactory were the two most common responses. The ontology’s quality was also assessed using the FOCA method. After the computation, the quality value (μ) was discovered to be 0.992, which is near 1, signifying excellent quality. The evaluation results show that NorPOnt is an ontology with few inconsistencies and could answer the CQs better with higher quality. Page(s): 117-125 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63232 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63231 Title: Chinese aid in the library development of Africa: A brief survey Authors: Kumar Patra, Swapan Abstract: The recent relations between China and Africa are a much-debated topic in international socio-economic and geopolitics. There are many different opinions about the Chinese presence in the African continent. Some see it as a ray of hope for African sustainable development and others contested it as a form of ‘neo-colonism’. It is further argued that along with other forms of China-Africa relationship, countries in Africa can be benefitted from ‘Chinese Aid’ beyond trade or infrastructure development. In this context, this study tries to investigate the Chinese contribution to library development in many countries of Africa. Taking various secondary sources, particularly newspaper content analysis, this study has identified a few cases where China has invested in library development in Africa. It is observed that Chinese aid in African library development comes in three types. In the first type, the Chinese government is directly involved in the construction of libraries, in the second type Chinese multinational firms are donating books and e-learning materials to the schools and libraries. In the third type, Chinese non-governmental organizations donate books and other materials to the local schools and communities. Chinese aid in library development in Africa will perhaps enhance learning, capacity building, mutual trust, and friendly relationship. In the long run, this will be a win-win situation for both sides to further enhance the South-South cooperation and above all the development of the whole continent. Page(s): 126-131 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63231 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63230 Title: Retrieval effectiveness of Scopus and Web of Science based on three types of subject metadata: a comparative study in Economics Authors: Sundar Samanta, Kalyan; Sankar Rath, Durga Abstract: The study tried to measure the retrieval effectiveness of Scopus and Web of Science databases and, simultaneously, to measure the resource description capabilities of social tags in comparison with standard subject metadata like LCSH descriptors and SLSH terms. The study results show that both databases produce more or less the same type of Average Mean Precision (AMP), but comparatively, WOS (AMP=2.44) has a higher AMP than Scopus (AMP=2.30). In the case of Average Mean Relative Recall (AMRR), the study indicates that Scopus (AMRR=0.73) has a higher AMRR than WOS (AMRR=0.44). The study also reveals that social tags (MP=2.24) have lower Mean Precision (MP) than other metadata in Scopus, but social tags (2.46) have higher MP in the WOS database. In the case of Mean Relative Recall (MRR), the study found that social tags (MRR=0.62 in Scopus & MR=0.38 in WOS) have the same MRR as LCSH descriptors in Scopus and WOS databases, where SLSH terms have higher MRR than other subject metadata. Moreover, the study concludes that social tags can describe and retrieve Economics documents like standard metadata (LCSH descriptors and SLSH terms). Page(s): 132-145 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63230 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z