Scientometric analysis of research productivity of IIT(ISM) Dhanbad

The study is aimed to analyze the research productivity of the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad for a period of twenty years during 2000-2019. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the research performance of IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. For this study, the data was harvested from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (WoS) bibliographical database, and further analysis was done with various prospects to know the high prolific authors and areas of research intrest. 6,962 research papers have been published over 20 years in which 5,201 research publications are in referred research journals, and rest of the research publications are in conferences, symposiums, bulletins, reviews etc. Different analysis and visualization software were used to analyze the data. The paper reveals quantitatively total research productivity of the institution in terms of the number of articles, citations, collaboration, h-index, source journals etc. Findings also indicate the publication pattern, degree of collaboration as well as the nature of the research activities carried out