University of Dhaka, 100 years old, the oldest University of Bangladesh. This is a review of the 100 years’ publication scenario of the university based on Scopus database, data taken on 26 January,2021.

Eight thousand four hundred and forty nine (8449) publications were found with affiliation of University of Dhaka when database was search with Bangladesh as affiliation country and time line was up to 2020.

How is this number of publications from a university which consists of 13 Faculties, 83 Departments, 12 Institutes, 20 residential halls, 3 hostels and more than 56 Research Centres and 1992 faculties?

First publication by any faculty of University of Dhaka goes back to 1925 as per this analysis. There are 2 publications from DU in 1925, both are in the Proceedings Of The Edinburgh Mathematical Society by Ghosh, Jyotirmaya ( Ghosh, J) in the area of Mathematics.

The publication scenarios are presented below from different perspectives:

A) Overall scenarios

Here data presented taking whole university into account.

1.The top 15 researchers with overall highest publications

In the table below, Scopus profile links of the researchers are given with the number of publications.

AUTHOR NAME	Publications no
Rashid, M.A.	219
Ahmed, K.M.	167
Hossain, M.A.	155
Hasan, C.M.	126
Ferdows, M.	99
Alam, S.S.	80
Hasnat, A.	76
Susan, M.A.B.H.	71
Razzaque, M.A.	69
Sen Gupta, H.M.	67
Ahad, M.A.R.	57
Sultana, M.	56
Sakib, K.	55
Babu, H.M.H.	52
Ahmed, M.K.	51
Kabir, Y.	51

2. Yearly publications

Though this is not the complete picture of scientific publications, it gives overall view of number and quality of scientific publications by the University. Little more than 8000 publications over 100 years in Scopus, how should the country and university authority should feel?

Over the last 20 years, yearly publications have not increased even ten times or have not been double over the last ten years.

a) 1925-2020 b) 2001- 2020

3) Journals with highest numbers of DU publications

a) Top ten journals b) Cite Scores of the top journals

Majority of the top ten journals where University faculties published are local journals. From the Citscores, recent performances of the journal can be obtained.

4 Subject area of publications

Medicine(1586), Agriculture and Biological Sciences(1275), Engineering( 1192), Computer Sciences(1169) and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(1066) are top five research areas according to the number of publications in Scopus Database.

5) Document types

Only 31 books were found in Scopus database from the faculties of Dhaka University. Though book chapters publications has started recently, 346 book chapters, how is the number against around 2000(1992 as per university website) faculties?

6. Collaborations

i) Institutional Collaboration

University of Dhaka more collaborations with national institutes than foreign institutes.

a) National Collaborations b) International Collaborations

ii) Country collaboration

How this collaborative publications coming. from institutional collaboration or from the DU faculties going to those countries for PhD and Post Doc? How is the collaboration scenario with south Asian countries?

a) Global collaboration b) Regional Collaboration

7. Funding sponsors

Like whole Bangladesh, foreign funders are the major funders for publications by the faculties of University of Dhaka. How much Bangladesh will be benefited from such foreign funded researches?

a) National funding b) International Funding

B)Subject area scenario

In this section of the review, Top authors and top journals are presented for each subject area.

1) Medicine

i) 15 Researchers with highest number of Publications

ii) Journals with highest number of publications

2) Agriculture and Biological Sciences

i) 15 researchers with highest number of publications in Medicine

ii) 10 Journals with highest publications

3) Engineering

i) 15 researchers with highest publications

ii) Top 10 journals with highest number of engineering documents

4) Computer Sciences

i) 15 researchers with highest publications