A Small Town in the World of Big Science: Contributions of Roorkee to Scientific and Technological Research, 1996-2005

Abstract

Roorkee, a town in the Uttarakhand state of India, has the distinction of being a town of excellence in terms of advanced engineering educa-tion and scientific research for over a century. Three international level for institutions scientific and engineering education and research i.e IITR, CBRI and NIH are located in this small town of just over a 100,000 inhabitants. An attempt has been made to provide detailed analysis of 2047 research papers contributed from Roorkee, covered by SCI Web of Science for the period from 1996 to 2005. The share of Roorkee in overall national contribu-tion in science and technology for the same period has also been determined. Scientific productivity of these three organizations has been analysed and most proliferate authors have been identified. Ranked lists of subject-wise break-up of research papers and most productive journals have been prepared. Ten highly cited papers indicating aver-age citations per year for five years period from 2002 to 2006 have also been identified