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A Scientometric Profile of Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC) Based on Scopus Database
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Author(s): M. Vijayakumar (St. Xavier's College of Engineering, India), S. Lawyed Stephen (Noorul Islam Center for Higher Education, India)and A. Lawrence Mary (Loyola Institute of Technology and Science, India)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 19
Source title:
Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): J. John Jeyasekar (Tamil Nadu State Forensic Sciences Department, India)and P. Saravanan (Lekshmipuram College of Arts and Science, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch012
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Abstract
This chapter creates the scientometric profile of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) for the period from 1973 to 2016. The scientific productivity of the scientists is analyzed using scientometric indicators based on the data retrieved from the Scopus database. The analysis revealed that linear growth is prevailing. It also shows that the scientists are actively involved in disseminating their research findings in scholarly journals and G.V. Rao secured first position among the top-ranking authors. The Indian Institute of Science is the leading collaborating institution with VSSC and the United States is topmost collaborating country. Most of the scholarly communications of VSSC are published in the ‘Journal of Sound & Vibration' and a majority of the records are of an article type. Most of the articles are published in the inter-disciplinary subject of Engineering. The study also found that the total number of citations received by the documents published from VSSC are 17395 and out of the 1783 documents published and 1385 documents received citations.
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