<b>PRODUCTOMETRIC STUDY OF SCIENTISTS OF ICAR'S NATIONAL RESEARCH</b> <b>CENTRE FOR SOYBEAN (NRCS)</b>

Abstract

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<i>Information personnel conduct studies on citation and</i>

<i>bibliometric analysis for knowing the extent of utility of</i>

<i>joumals, conference proceedings and other literature.</i>

<i>In this study, productometric analysis of contributions of</i>

<i>National Research Centre for Soybean, Indore, has been</i>

<i>carried out for the period </i>1987 - <i>2001 in terms of number</i>

<i>of research articles produced by its scientists. The study</i>

<i>is based on </i>a <i>chronological documentation list prepared</i>

<i>for the purpose along with author and subject indexes.</i>

<i>Also analyses average number of papers per year, types</i>

<i>of documents publishing the papers along with names of</i>

<i>the journals, subject and language distribution.</i>

<i>Authorship pattern is also studied in this paper. It also</i>

<i>gives method of calculating score of individual authors,</i>

<i>calculates their scores and rank orders. Concludes with</i>

<i>strengths and weaknesses of soybean research in India.</i>

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