MAPPING OF RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY IN SRM UNIVERSITY: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY

This paper discusses about the published research articles and its citation available in the Indian Citation Index by the authors from SRM University. The relevant data are collected from Indian Citation Index and it was analyzed. It shows among the 510 articles, the maximum of 157(30.78%) articles published in 2015 and minimum of 1 (0.20%) articles published in 2005. Based on the citation during the period 153 citations were made. Among the 153 Citations, maximum of 32 (20.92%) citations in 2010 and minimum number of citation 1 (0.65%) in 2006 & 2007, was identified.


INTRODUCTION
The true barometer of assessing the quality and quantity of a journal is the Citation Index. While discussing citation, one needs to understand the citation. Simply, when another refers other works in his/her article, we call the article referred is cited. In other words the citation is called as the previous work which is referred in the present work. The quality of a given work can rightly be adjudged through the number of citations that it gets. Therefore, a certain piece of article or research paper is carrying more number of citations get more impact than the work carrying less citation. Therefore, we always refer to some indexing and abstracting databases like Scopus, Web of Science, or even Google Scholars to know the impact of a journal, a particular article or a particular author. Indian Citation Index which was initiated by Diva Enterprises is just an indexing and abstracting database.

REVIEWOFLITERATURE
Nicholas and Ritchie (1) view that, "study of bibliometrics concept provides information, knowledge and how it is communicated". Moreover, bibliometric studies are normally employed to evaluate the academic research output, the quality of the journal, impact and influence of articles, authors, and assorted parameters. Though there has been substantial growth of literature on bibliometric studies during the last decade, the authors focus on some of the pertinent literature that relate to the present study. Potter (2) defines bibliometric analysis as "the calculation and study of the research publication patterns of all types of written communication and their authorship nature". In a most interesting study Mooghali et al. (3) analyzed records of three premiere indexes known as, "SSCI", "SCI", and "AHCI", and it is projected in the field of "scientometrics" evolved between 1980 to 2009. The pattern of growth of literature in the field of Nanoscience during 1990 to 2009 was reported by Karpagam et al. (4). In the similar vein, Abramo (5) exercised bibliometric techniques on some national level research assessment. Lapon-Kandeishein and Prebor (6) bibliographical research on Hebrew printing also needs mention. In the similar light bibliometric studies by veterans like Krampen et al. (7), Kumar Suchetan (8) and others also presented findings on different directions. Dhanavandan and Tamizhchelvan (9) studied citations and research productivity of south Tamil Nadu universities from 2009 to 2013 based on Indian Citation Index (ICI).

METHODOLOGY
This study aims to discuss about the analysis of the citation index of the research output by faculty members of SRM University. The relevant sources and data are collected from Indian Citation Index. Based on the available sources the followingdiscussions are made.

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
The distributions of the research output by the authors from SRM University that are available in Density .
Year s % Indian Citation Index were analyzed in the table 1. The above Table presents        The above table expresses the distribution of document type based on the articles published from SRM University. It shows among the 510 articles, which includes 478(93.73%) Research Articles, 14(2.75%) Review Articles and 6(1.18%) Short communication and Editorial type. Among the 153 Citations, which include 146(95.42%) Research Articles type followed by 6(3.92%) Review Article and Short Communication type 1(0.66%). It is concluded that the highest articles and citations are from research article type of documents.

CONCLUSION
Indian Citation Index to offer an easy-touse, reliable bibliographic and citation database to position with 11 citations and Raja R Balaji occupies the third position with 8 citations. The Subject wise distribution of cited articles study reveals that the 165 articles from Chemistry is in the first rank, followed by Engineering Science & Technology with149 articles and 110 articles from Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Science subject in third rank were identified. It is revealed from the Articles only). In the case of highest citations again and citations are from research article type of documents.