Aabid Kharadi

Directorate of information and Public Relations J&K · Information Department J&K

Purpose The study showcases the social impact (online attention) of funded research compared to nonfunded for the BRICS nations. The key themes achieving online attention across the funded and nonfunded publications have also been identified. Design/methodology/approach A total of 1,507,931 articles published across the BRICS nations for a period...

Open access (OA) to research results is indispensable for knowing more about COVID-19 and ways to contain it. The study investigates the OA status of the research output on COVID-19 using the Web of Science. The results show that about 85 per cent of the publications are available as OA, which shows a decline over time. Almost an equal proportion o...

The year 2020 brought a big concern for the global community because of COVID-19, which affected every sector of society, and tourism is no exception. Researchers across the globe are publishing their studies related to different dimensions of tourism in the context of COVID-19, and images have formed an essential component of their research. In to...

Purpose The purpose of the study is to map the funding status of COVID-19 research. The various aspects, such as funding ratio, geographical distribution of funded articles, journals publishing funded research and institutions that sponsor the COVID-19 research are studied. To visualize the country collaboration network and research trends/hotspots...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the retrieval performance of three search engines, i.e. Google, Yahoo and Bing for navigational queries using two important retrieval measures, i.e. precision and relative recall in the field of life science and biomedicine. Design/methodology/approach Top three search engines namely Google, Yahoo and...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the retrieval effectiveness of three image search engines (ISE) – Google Images, Yahoo Image Search and Picsearch in terms of their image retrieval capability. It is an effort to carry out a Cranfield experiment to know how efficient the commercial giants in the image search are and how efficient an...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of personality traits on perception and acceptance of open access (OA) mode of publishing by the author community of University of Kashmir, India. The study is an attempt to highlight the relationship between personality traits of authors and OA mode of publishing. Design/methodology/ap...

Culture acts as the identity of every civilization throughout the world. It enables every nation to pass the information and knowledge from generation to generation. With the advent of technology and changes day in and day out in every sphere of life, it has become quite difficult for the people of world to acquaint themselves with their cultural k...

Purpose: The main aim of the study is to showcase the productivity and relative impact of research from the University of Kashmir in comparison to the rest of the world. Methodology: The study is based on the application of various InCites indicators for the purpose of analysis. Findings: Research output of the University of Kashmir has shown promi...

The availability of research on web is an important factor to determine its societal impact. The inability of traditional citation based metrics to provide a complete picture of web based scholarly content has given rise to alternative or to better say complementary way of measuring the impact of research, “Altmetrics”. The phenomenon of altmetrics...