Measuring the Research Productivity of Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology during 2011-2021: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology research performance as seen through the Scopus database from 2011 to 2021. The study intended to investigate the annual growth of research and citation impact, top-productive authors, authorship pattern, core sources and level of collaborations, etc. Bibliometrix R-Package, MS-Excel, and VOSviewer software are used for data analysis and visualisation. The results show that out of 1502 papers, the maximum publications 256 published in 2021 and a minimum of 34 in 2011 (2%), “AIP Conference Proceedings” was the most preferred source for research communication (72 papers), Sanjeev Maken ranked first among all authors with 74 articles, and the 3-authored (451 articles) was the favoured authorship pattern. Furthermore, the authors published the maximum number of papers in the Engineering discipline. This study shows the trends of scholarly contributions at DCRUST. These study findings can help to understand the publication trends, research’s uniqueness and impact.