Dr Pallavi Gogoi Librarian Tinsukia College, Assam pallavi...
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Dr Pallavi GogoiLibrarian
Tinsukia College, [email protected]
To Know the scholarly communication trend
To find out the scholarly productivity of faculty members of the medical colleges of Assam
Methods:Survey through structured questionnaire
distributed among 150 number of faculty members, 98 questionnaires received ;and data are tabulated; and analysed using SPSS 16.0.
Analysis of Pubmed Central to know the productivity of the faculty.
h/d-hours per day , h/w-hours per week, Occ.-Occasionally
Experience(in Yrs.)
No. of respondents
Present involvement with academic activity
Amount of Time Engagement
Yes No 1-2h/d
>2 h/d
3-4 h/w
Occ.
Rarely
0-10 21(21.43%) 09(42.85%)
12(57.14%)
04 09 08
11-20 56(57.14%) 35(62.5%) 21(37.5%) 14 07 09 19 07
>20 21(21.43%) 03(14.28%)
18(85.71%)
- - 07 06 08
Time involvement with Academic activity
One way ANOVA for academic involvement according to years of experience
Dependent Variable: Academic Involvement
(I) Yrs. of Experience
(J)Yrs of Experience
Mean Difference
(I-J) Std. Error Sig.
95% Confidence Interval
Lower Bound Upper Bound
LSD 0-10 11-20-.19643 .11985 .105 -.4344 .0415
>21.28571 .14454 .051 -.0012 .5727
11-20 0-10.19643 .11985 .105 -.0415 .4344
>21.48214* .11985 .000 .2442 .7201
>21 0-10-.28571 .14454 .051 -.5727 .0012
11-20 -.48214* .11985 .000 -.7201 -.2442
*. The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level.
Experience in Years Electronic Print Both
0-10 21(21.43%) - -
11-20 28(28.57%) 02(2.04%) 26(26.53%)
>20 12(12.24%) 03(3.06%) 06(6.12%)
Total 61(62.24%) 05(5.1%) 32(32.65%)
62%
5%
33% Electronic
Both
Sl No
Encouraging Factors No. Of Responses
Discouraging Factors No. Of Responses
1 Latest Development 69(70.4%) Societal Responsibility 35
2 Promotion & Grants 59(60.20%) Lack of Fund 28
3 Approval of Peers 07 Job Responsibility 63
4 Spread of research 05(5.1%)
5 Own academic Development
18
One Way ANOVA Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.
latest development Between Groups 1.024 2 .512 2.563 .082
Within Groups 18.976 95 .200
Total 20.000 97
Promotion and Granst Between Groups 1.741 2 .871 3.843 .025
Within Groups 21.524 95 .227
Total 23.265 97
Approval of peers Between Groups .762 2 .381 6.307 .003
Within Groups 5.738 95 .060
Total 6.500 97
Spread of Research Between Groups .935 2 .468 11.663 .000
Within Groups 3.810 95 .040
Total 4.745 97
Own academic
development
Between Groups 3.241 2 1.621 13.444 .000
Within Groups 11.452 95 .121
Total 14.694 97
Yes No DNM
Experience
Visibility Free Access Citations Speed Prestige Impact Charges
0-10 14 16 11 02 - - 03 -
11-20
26 39 07 06 03 - 07 -
>20 12 07 - - - - - 07
62(63.26%
DNM-Does not Matter
Copyright Awareness
Experience in years
Aware Aware/Not Clear
Not Aware Interested Not Interested
0-10 09 - 07 05 -
11-20 34 20 - 02 -
>20 06 15 - - -
49(50%)
Sl No. Factors Frequency Percentage
1 Subject Coverage 35 35.71%
2 Impact Factor 78 79.59%
3 Ease of Acceptance 27 27.55%
4 Open Access 21 21.42%
5 Target Reader 07 7.14%
6 Abstracting/Indexing 07 7.14%
7 Print Copy 14 14.28%
8 Cost of Publication 14 14.28%
9 Electronic Copy 14 14.24%
10 Speed 14 14.28%
Year AMC GMC SMC Total
Cumulative Total
Total(Expected)
2013 16 16 02 34 34 37.6
2014 14 19 09 42 76 43.5
2015 16 31 07 54 130 49.4
2016 33 19 13 65 195 55.3
2017 21 19 12 52 247 61.2
Study based on PubMed Central Data
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Nu
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of
Pub
licati
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Observed and expected scholarly Productivity
Total
Total
(Expected)
AMC GMC SMC TOTAL
No
of
Authour
Yrs 2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
1 0 2 1 1 0 3 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 15
2 3 1 3 5 3 1 2 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 27
3 1 2 4 4 2 5 3 8 5 4 1 2 1 5 0 47
4 6 4 5 11 2 3 3 9 6 7 1 2 0 3 5 67
5 4 2 0 0 2 1 2 3 2 1 0 3 3 0 0 23
>5 2 3 3 12 12 3 6 4 2 5 0 2 3 5 6 68
16 14 16 33 21 16 19 31 19 19 02 09 07 13 12 247
Sl No No. of Authors
No. of Articles
% of Articles Cumulative Articles
Cumulative % of Articles
1 Single 15 6.07 15 6.07
2 Double 27 10.93 42 17
3 Three 47 19.03 89 36.03
4 Four 67 27.12 156 63.15
5 Five 23 9.32 179 72.47
6 >five 68 27.53 247 100
Degree of Collaboration (DC) : 0.939
Sl NO.
Departments Total author involvement
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
1 Microbiology 126 16 09 14 34 52
2 Medicine 89 19 19 04 26 21
3 Psychiatry 40 04 - 08 14 14
4 Radiology 40 03 05 01 12 19
5 Orthopaedics 31 03 07 03 07 11
Rank Name of the Journal Records Percentage
1 Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 35 14.17%
2 Indian Journal of Medical Research 21 8.5%
3 Indian Journal of Pharmacology 06 2.43%
4 Annals of Indian Academy and Neurology 05 2.02%
5 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia 05 2.02%
6 Indian Journal of Dermatology 05 2.02%
7 PLOS : ONE –a peer reviewed journal 05 2.02%
8 Journal of Clinical Imaging Science 04 1.62%
9 Journal of Neurosciences in Rural practice 04 1.62%
10 Journal of Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons 04 1.62%
Academic Involvement is statistically significant with years of experience.
62.28% Population prefer Electronic Media for scholarly communication purpose.
Promotion and Grants(60.20%) is one of the major encouraging factors towards scholarly activity.
Free access is a criteria for majority(63.26%) to prefer open access publications.
Impact Factor is an important area of concern for majority(79.59%) for journal selection
A DC value of 0.939, shows that multiple authored articles occupy the prominent position.
Microbiology was found to be the most productive department.
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research with 14.17 % is the top ranked journal in the survey.