Abstract The ‘Bibliometrics’ and ‘Scientometrics’ are set of methods used for measuring the production and dissemination of the scientific knowledge’s. The data used for the study were obtained from the SCOPUS Database. Totally 2885 record was found from the above database during the study period 1987-2014. The relative growth rates of output in terms of research productivity are analyzed among the periods. Out of... The ‘Bibliometrics’ and ‘Scientometrics’ are set of methods used for measuring the production and dissemination of the scientific knowledge’s. The data used for the study were obtained from the SCOPUS Database. Totally 2885 record was found from the above database during the study period 1987-2014. The relative growth rates of output in terms of research productivity are analyzed among the periods. Out of 2885 publications 2 (0.06%) of them published in 1987. 9 (0.31 %) of them published in 1988. 6 (0.20 %) of them published in 1989. Simultaneously increased publications in recent years 196 (6.79%) of them published in 2010. It is evident from the table that the highest 492 (17.05%) publications published in the year of 2014. Out of 2885 publications Article comprises with 2251 (78.02%) records, Conference paper comprises with 436 (15.11%) records, Review comprises with 83(2.87%) records, Book chapter comprises with 35 (1.21%) records, Article in Press comprises with 21 (0.72%) records etc. that the relative Growth rate and Doubling time for publications by Pondicherry University. It is clear that relative Growth rate of total research output is decreased gradually. The Growth rate is 1.17 in 1988 and which decreased up to 0.18 in 2014. The mean relative Growth rate for the periods of 1987 to 2014 the relative growth rate of 0.27. This study period resulted that the mean doubling time for total output 3.70. Author “Abbasi, S.A the highest number of publications for the study period with 149 (5.16 %) records. Read More Read Less

Abstract This paper presents a bibliometric techniques were used to analyze the authorship trend in contributions of “International Journal of Information Science and Management” during 2003 - 2014. A total of 218 contributions were examined by growth of contributions by year, authorship patterns by year and issue, author productivity, most prolific contributors. Maximum number of contributions i.e., 31 (14.220%) were published in the year... This paper presents a bibliometric techniques were used to analyze the authorship trend in contributions of “International Journal of Information Science and Management” during 2003 - 2014. A total of 218 contributions were examined by growth of contributions by year, authorship patterns by year and issue, author productivity, most prolific contributors. Maximum number of contributions i.e., 31 (14.220%) were published in the year 2010. Average number of authors per paper is 2.133% and the average productivity per author is 0468%. The highest number of contributors i.e., 367 (78.924%) are from Iran. Read More Read Less

Abstract World Wide Web is like an ocean of information; it is not easy to find specific information from it because the web is very huge and growing all the time. So there are certain tools used to search information from the web. They are called search engines. They search through all the web sites and create an index of the information of... World Wide Web is like an ocean of information; it is not easy to find specific information from it because the web is very huge and growing all the time. So there are certain tools used to search information from the web. They are called search engines. They search through all the web sites and create an index of the information of the web sites and act as a single point to find relevant information. E.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Lycos, Info seek etc. Analysis on 8 representative variables form all the subsectors of on Medical Tourism in Kerala, the search engine Lycos retrieves 59% of the total results and stands first followed by Bing in the second position with 37% and Google in third position with only 2% of results . The remaining less than 1% is shared by all Metasearch engines, of these Ixquick stands first with a slight difference from others followed by Dogpile and WebCrawler Analysis of 10 variables on Ayurveda tourism Lycos occupies first place with a high result of 85% and Google in the second position followed by Bing in the third position with a less Percentage of 7 and 6 respectively. Among Metasearch engines Ixquick stands first, followed by WebCrawler and Dogpile. Read More Read Less

Abstract E-Learning is supported by Information Communication Technology. It is very important to Library professionals. The data was downloaded from Web of Knowledge from 2010 to 2014 for five years. The data was downloaded as plain text format. Each and every analysis was done with Bibexcel and Pajek tool. This article is particularly focus on highly productive author’s h-index, co-authorship pattern of cluster analysis,... E-Learning is supported by Information Communication Technology. It is very important to Library professionals. The data was downloaded from Web of Knowledge from 2010 to 2014 for five years. The data was downloaded as plain text format. Each and every analysis was done with Bibexcel and Pajek tool. This article is particularly focus on highly productive author’s h-index, co-authorship pattern of cluster analysis, countries collaboration, and google map. Read More Read Less