Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date of this Version
2023
Abstract
Vidyasagar University, named after Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar was established as a state university in 1981. This university is known for research excellence in fields like science and technology, besides other branches of social sciences. This paper attempts to analyse the research collaboration among the faculty members of Vidyasagar University during 1998 to 2022 through bibliometric analysis. To this end, the paper extracted the data from Scopus database for the publications of the faculty members of Vidyasagar University during the said period. To analyse the data and visualise the research aspects Bibliometrix R package, Bibexcel, MS Excel and VOSviewer were used. The study showed that, the total number of publications during the period was 4824 with an average of 1.36 authors per publication. The faculty members of Vidyasagar University exhibited a high degree of collaboration with a collaboration index of 0.94. The study concludes that the faculty members of Vidyasagar University have shown remarkable research collaboration and enabled the university to achieve a considerable degree of research excellence.