Collaboration Pattern in the Research Output of National Institutes of Technology in India during 1999 – 2018

Iranna M Shettar, Gururaj S Hadagali

Abstract


This study analyses the collaboration pattern in the Research Output of National Institutes of Technology in India for the period of twenty years (1999-2018) using the Web of Science citation database. The parameters used in the study are: Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaboration Coefficient (CC), Collaborative Index (CI), Modified Collaborative Coefficient (MCC), Intra and Inter NIT collaborated articles and growth patterns of domestic and international collaborative articles. The results of the study reveal that the Degree of Collaboration (DC) for the journal articles published by NITs between 1999 and 2018 varied from 0.88 to 0.98. The lowest CI was recorded in the year 2000 (2.66), and the highest CI was recorded for the year 2016 (3.62). The Collaborative Coefficient (CC) ranges between 0.538 and 0.637, with an average rate of 0.626. Out of 16,049 (41.69%) journal articles, 1125 (2.92%) are single-authored, and 14,924 (38.77%) are intra and inter-NIT collaborated journal articles with two or more authors affiliated only with one or more NITs. Internationally collaborative journal articles achieved the highest ACPP with 18.42, followed by 13.39 ACPP by domestic collaborated journal articles, 12.48 ACPP by locally (NIT only) collaborated journal articles and the least ACPP of 2.52 by no collaborated journal articles.

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