Abstract
The chapter analyses the quality of research in terms of quality of articles and of journals by using a quality index. It uses two-dimension indicators to judge the quality of articles, that is, citations (scholarly) and readership, which is the number of hits an article receives in a simple Google keyword search. The quality of a journal is measured in terms of three dimensions: its presence over time, its presence across space, and its depth. The study took 21351 journal articles from 1006 journals (902 journals from Scopus and 104 journals from ISID for five-year period, 2010–14. It emerged that India’s social science research (SSR) contributes more to public debates and policy formulations and relatively less in pushing the frontiers of knowledge for further research.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Social Science Research in India |
| Subtitle of host publication | Status, Issues and Policies |
| Editors | Sukhadeo Thorat, Samar Verma |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Chapter | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199474417 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Quality
- Scopus
- citation
- Journal
- H-Index
- Google hits
- scholarly citations
- readership
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Global Development Institute