As per 12 January 2021 data, Researchers from Jahangirnagar University have published 444 scientific documents in the Scopus indexed journals, conference proceedings, and books in 2020.
Out of 444, only 184 documents have corresponding authors from the University and 299 from Bangladesh. That means, 184 publications were originated from Jahangirnagar university. In the rest of the publications, JU faculties have made partial contributions. 145 publications were originated from abroad and JU faculties made a partial contribution.
- Document Type
Researchers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) published around 444 research documents in 2020 as identified in the Scopus database. As expected, around 344 (78%) of them were Scopus index journal articles. The remaining were published in the form of conference papers, review articles, letters, and book chapters.
- Subject Area
Medicine was the top subject area that contributed around 117 (13.4%) research documents. Other notable subjects were Computer Science (8.8%), Chemistry (8.4%), Environmental Science (7.1%), Engineering (6.3%), Materials Science (6.3%).
- Institiutional Collaboration
Researchers established a significant number of international and national collaborations. In the case of international collaboration, universities from UK, USA, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia were the main partners. Whereas, CHINTA Research Bangladesh, Dhaka University, JUST, Bangladesh Atomic Energy were major local partners. Moreover, researchers also published a number of research articles with various leading private universities including Daffodil International University, Gono Bishwabidyalay, Independent University, and North South University.
National International
- Funding
Similar to collaboration, both international and national funding bodies were involved in those research projects. The majority of the national funding came from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. It would be interesting to get information regarding the funding values provided by the local and international funding organizations.
National International
- Collaboration with countries
- Top 10 Journals
- Below is the list of journals in which JU faculties have published more. Some information on how these journals are performing over time can also be derived from the CiteScore of the journals.
- Top 15 Authors
All of the top 15 researchers of the university published at least 10 research articles.
- Mamun, M. A is the topmost author with 36 research articles.
- Haque, M A is the second topmost author with 19 publications.
- Ahmed, F, and Sikder, M.T. are the third topmost authors with 15 publications.
- Kaiser, M.S., and Ullah, M.A. are the fourth top most authors with 13 publications.
- Rahman, M.M., and Sarkar, B. are the fifth top most authors with 12 publications.
- Kabir, S.E. , Mamun, A.A. ,Rahman, M.M, and Rahman, M.M are the sixth top most authors with 11 publications.
- Hossain, M.A. ,Hossain, S., Islam, S., Shammi, M. and Uddin, M.S are the 7th topmost authors with 10 publications.
Concluding remarks:
Jahangirnagar University has secured fourth position surpassing ICDDR, B for the first time. Congratulations on that. But only 41.44% of publications (less than half,184 corresponding authors among 444 publications) have corresponding authors from the university.
On the other hand, only 7 publications were funded by the University. These and other findings show that a long way to go to be satisfied with publications.
Infograph writing: Dr. Ashiqul Alam,
Data Collection and Analysis: Dr. Monir Uddin Ahmed
