Productivity of Faculty Members of Taharabad College : A Scientometric Study

The Twenty-first century shaped a new atmosphere for education. Due to computer technology, internet, smart phones and other such devices, education reached to each and every corner of the world. Even people living in remote areas are able to reap the benefits of open education system and distance education system This paper presents a scientomentric study of Arts and Commerce College i.e. research productivity of faculty members during 2019-2021. This research paper covers gender wise, age group wise, writing/publication statues of teachers, language wise research productivity, use of communication channel for research, purpose of research productivity, and authorship pattern.


Introduction
Research productivity in higher education is gaining importance from the past one decade in India. Faculty members of the universities have two functions to perform, e.g. teaching and research. Research has now become the very significant aspect of scholarly communication involving theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, books, patents, journals, articles, etc. It is important to undertake the analysis of the research outputs in the different disciplines.
Scientometric is the science of measuring and analyzing science. In practice, scientometric is often done using bibliometrics that is measurement of scientific publications. In1960, Vassily V. Nalimove had coined the term scientometric. Modern scientometric is primarily based on the work of Derek J. de solla price and Eugene Garfield. The later founded the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), which carries out scientometric analysis. Scientometric studies broadly constitute quantitative analysis of scientific literature to reveal the latest developments in various fields and the patterns of geographical distribution of science and scientific productivity of individual nation.

About Arts and Commerce College and its library
Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj's 'Arts and Commerce College, Taharabad Tal. Baglan, Dist. Nashik (M. S.)' is growing slowly and steadily to cater to the educational needs of the aspirant youths of Taharabad and the nearby villages by offering UG courses in Arts and Commerce faculties. To see the improvement in the lives of the masses, this college has been established in 1997 with herculean efforts of the parent institute MarathaVidya Prasarak Samaj, Nashik, founded in 1914 with the motto 'Bahujan Hitay, Bahujan Sukhay' (Mass Education for the Welfare of the Massess). The aim of the founder members was to lead the downtrodden, backward and tribal masses from the darkness to light, from illiteracy to higher education from ignorance to knowledge. The college is striving hard to bear the responsibility shouldered by the pioneers to meet the educational needs of the residents of the region.
There is a common library for both the courses which is completely equipped with the latest technology to turn into efficient library and information services to its users. The college library is soul of the college. The library has compilation of five thousand books, CDs/DVDs, 12 produce journals, 200 bound volumes of journals. Nlist-Inflibnet subscribed online database.

Research:
The eminent scholars from the library field have defined 'Research'. The word research is made up of two morphemes viz.'re' and 'search'. Here,'re' means again and 'search' means to investigate. This states that research is an inquiry after the search. It is the investigation of the problem done with specific point of view. It is prominently observed that research is an inquiry. Inquiry does mean the exploration into the particular problem to the root cause of problems and to get proper solutions..

Productivity:
Cambridge learner's dictionary defines the productivity means the rate at which goods is produced.

Definition of Research Productivity
It is but general that the number of publishing any product helps in calculating the productivity of an academic. If an individual productivity of a librarian is considered, it is measured by analyzing at higher education. The status of an academic depends on the counting of the published products.
Research productivity on behalf of Librarians is also considered the issue of prestige because the knowledge of the librarian helps the entire community of the academic institute. The research work done by the librarian also brings prestige to the institute.

Review of Literature
Golwal (2020) conducted a bibliometric study on publication productivity of Information literacy in Scopus database. The research published on information literacy in Scopus database from the year 1999-2018. It shows that majority of 9.67% research work published throughout 2018, followed by 09.20% from the year 2016 and 08.99% during the year 2017. It indicated that top 10 research scholar from total literature output in the information literacy. Amid the total number of 20610 publications, the utmost research articles were contributed by M.S. Wolf. The huge research articles were in the category of social science with 18.49%.

Parmar et.al.(2020)
The study seek out out the 50 years research output on OSMF at universal stage. It was founded that an entire number of 1451 papers were published for the period of 1967-2016. There were received 24963 citations. In the block year 2007-2011, the growth rate was utmost (94.15%). India was the highest country by publication Lokhande and Lihitkar (2019)As far as the present topic of research is concerned, Solapur University has analyzed the Ph. D. theses from Science faculty awarded in between 2008 and 2018. The researcher has used qualitative method to do the research. The researcher has considered the study in as per the years in which theses submitted and awarded. He analyses them guide wise and subject wise. From the data it is concluded that Geography, physics and chemistry research is in stable increase pattern whereas statistics and Botany is minimum it may be due to availability of guides. Geography and chemistry guides have highest contribution in research with maximum number of students with Ph.D.

Garg and Tripathi(2018)
Conducted the study on highlights the contents of published articles in various disciplines. There were 902 articles published by Indian scholars for the period of 1995-2014. The highest number 23% of article published in India. The field of medicine has published highest number as compared to other discipline.
Sivakumar(2017) conducted the study to explore the research productivity of the academic members of PSG college of arts and science in between 2001 and 2015 from the Scopus database. In this research study, 430 research papers were selected which were published during the study period. It is found that most of the research articles were published in 2015 and the number is 69. The entire number of citation received by the articles was 3938 and the total citing articles were 284.The h-index of PSG colleges 31.

Objectives of the study:
The most important objective of the study is to examine the research productivity of faculty members working in Arts and commerce college Taharabad affiliated to SPPU Pune for the period of 2019 to 2021.
1. To analyze research productivity of faculty members of Arts and commerce college during 2019 to 2021. 2. To find out the research productivity pattern (authorship pattern) 3. To know gender wise research productivity. 4. To examine the communication channel preferred for publication of college research output.

Hypothesis of present study
1. The research papers of faculty members are published in UGC-listed journal more than conference and seminar 2. Mainstream of faculty members publish their research work in English language. 3. Working environment motivate the faculty members to publication. 4. Faculty members facing the language problem to publish the research paper.

Research Methodology
The present study will adopt survey method using questionnaire as a tool of data collection. A structured questionnaire was designed with the help of Google form and link is distributed to the teachers i.e. faculty members of Arts and commerce college Taharabad. Also in addition to online Google form and offline printed questionnaire was prepared to collect the data required for the present study and 17 were received back. The response rate is 100%.
To collect the primary data from them, the researcher has prepared a common questionnaire taking into considerations all the common facilities of the campuses. The questionnaires then sent to them for filling in the information and collected within a stipulated time. After analyzing the questionnaires, the researcher has interviewed some of the samples to clear doubts rose while going through the questionnaires. The interviews helped to strengthen the data and clear the doubts to avoid the restriction of the research.

Data analysis and Interpretation
The statistics of faculty members in Arts and Commerce College are 19 out of them 17 have respondent, 02 have not respondent. The composed information has been analyzed with using subsequent parameters. Gender wise, types of research contribution, year wise, age wise, Language wise, authorship patterns, motivational factors, used of the communication channel for research, Barriers in research productivity.

Gender wise research productivity
Gender wise publication statues of Arts and commerce college faculty members affiliated to SPPU, Pune. The collected data is analyzed in table no.7.1

Types of research contribution:
Research output in symposia, seminar, conferences, journals, book chapters, books, research projects, and patents of college teachers affiliated to SPPU. The collected data is analyzed in table no.7.2  Year wise research productivity:

Age wise research productivity
The mainstream of the faculty members is belonging to 31-40 age groups. 23.54% and 5.88% are belonging to 41-50 age groups and 51-60 respectively. 21-30 age group researchers have not produced any research articles. Majority of research paper are belonged to 31-40 age group have published 70.54% research articles.  Major Findings 1) Male faculty members have produced 66.20% research articles, while female faculty members have produced 33.80% research work. It shows that male faculty members have more research produced than female faculty members.
2) The common of research scholars have produced research work in journals 42.73% followed by chapters in book is 13.59% 3) Majority of faculty members preferred English language to publish research work. 4) Majority of faculty members expenditure self on research activity.

Conclusion
The Present study is based on survey, interview, observation to find out research productivity of the faculty members in Arts and commerce college Taharabad affiliated to SPP University, Pune. It has sheltered the gender wise, types of research contribution, year wise, , age wise, writing publication statues, language wise, who provides financial support for your research, research project statues, Authorship pattern, and motivated factor in productivity, authorship position, Barriers in research productivity etc.