Rajshahi university is the top third institute among Bangladeshi universities and research institutes in terms of the number of publications in Scopus indexed journals, book series, and trade publications.
1.Document type
In 2020, according to the Scopus database (data collected on 6 January 2021), researchers of Rajshahi University published around 470 research documents with the majority (74%) of them were Scopus index journal articles. The remaining were published as conference papers, review articles, and book chapters.
Out of 470 publications, 175 have corresponding authors form University of Rajshahi and 269 from Bangladesh.
2. Subject Area
Engineering (12.1%) and Medicine (12%) are the main subject areas in terms of publications. Other major subjects are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8.9%), Computer Sciences (8.1%), Physics and Astronomy (7.5%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7.1%), Energy (7.1%), Material Sciences (6%), and Chemistry (5%).
3. Collaboration
There were a number of international and national collaborations established by the researchers of the University. In the case of international collaboration, universities from Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Saudi Arabia were the main partners, however, there were not many collaborative projects identified with research-intensive countries in North America or Europe. Whereas, Pabna University of Science and Technology, University of Dhaka, International Islamic University of Chittagong, Khulna University were major local partners.
National collaboration International Collaborations
4. 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 funding International funding
What is the explanation for only 3 publications with funding from the university?
5. Top 10 Journals
6. Top 15 publishers/ Authors
All of the top 15 researchers of the university published more than 7 articles.
- Naqib S. H is the top author with 20 publications in 2020.
2. Islam, Farhadul is the second top author with 17 Publications.
3. Hossain, J. , Hossain, M.Y. and Paul, A.K. are the third top authors with 12 publications.
4. Akbar, M.A. and Mahmud, S. are the 4th top authors with 10 publications.
5. Das, S.K. , Haque, A.K.F. , Hasan, M.R., Kabir, A.H. and Mawa, Z. are 5th top authors with 9 publications.
6. Islam, A.K.M.A. ,Ismail, A.B.M. , Rahman, M.A. , Uddin, M.A. are the6th top authors with 8 publications.
Concluding remarks:
For the first time, Rajshahi university secured third position in terms of number of publications in Scopus indexed journals/proceddings. Congratulations !!!
Out of 470 publications, 175 have corresponding authors form University of Rajshahi and 269 from Bangladesh. On the other hand, only 3 publications have mentioned University of Rajshahi as funding source.
University authority have to think over these and other findings from this inforgraphic.
Infographic preparation:
Dr. Ashiqul Alam and Dr. Monir Uddin Ahmed
