A Study on Highly Cited Engineering Open Access Publications in India with Special reference to Scopus Database

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Dr. J Arumugam, Mr. M. Prakash

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Open access movement enhances the researchers to access good number of resources. The freely available content has created a great impact on accessing many journal articles in various subject disciplines and enriches the academic community with widespread knowledge. The present study attempts to analyze the open access journals and articles listed in the Engineering domain with special reference to Scopus database for the period of 2011-2020 in India. A total of 160 journals and 56,612 journal articles on Engineering domain are listed in Scopus database. 2019 is the highest number of publications 30.78 % during the analyzed period of study.19381 journals were published in computer Science and 91% of the documents were published as research articles. Vellore Institute of Technology is the most predominant institution having more publications in engineering domain. The study results that Making a 'completely blind' image quality analyzer authored by Mittal A., Soundararajan R., Bovik A.C., published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters in 2013 received the highest Time Cited value 1772.  The article Modeling and analysis of K-tier downlink heterogeneous cellular networks authored by Dhillon H.S., Ganti R.K., Baccelli F., Andrews J.G. in 2012 created 70.20 FWCI. Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India is the predominant funding agency in the field of engineering.

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