Research Collaboration by faculty members in Physics in the University of Calcutta during 2001-2019: Using Bibliometrix R

The paper analyses 775 publications by the faculty members in the Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, collected from Scopus database for the period of 19 years (2001-2019). A number of bibliometric indicators e.g. total publications, citations, journal cites score, h-index, year-wise productivity, national and international collaborations, the most preferred and cited journal are employed for analysing the nature of publications. Bibliometric technique and open source software like Publish or Perish and Bibliometrix R Package are used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that 775 papers published in 173 journals with 9090 citations. The average citations per paper is 11.73 with departmental h-index (40) and g-index (62). It is also found that Debnarayan Jana (n=92) and Aritra Banerjee (n=82) are the most productive authors in the department of physics in Calcutta University