The three day long short-term program (STP) on "Measuring Research Output using Scientometrics and Bibliometrics" organized by Pt Ravi Shankar Shukla University (RSU) Raipur concluded here on Tuesday. The program had started on September 22 and according to university officials this was the first kind of workshop to be conducted in Chhattisgarh.
The first session of the concluding day started with address of Suparna Sen Gupta head library Science Department RSU. Sen Gupta drew the attention of participants toward the positive and negative sides of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics. He said that it is not necessary that every research paper should be given same importance. The importance of research paper should be decided in the light of time and relevance.
Dr Mohammed Imtiaz Ahmed Khan librarian RSU presented an overall scenario of research work going on in India and also those going on in RSU. He discussed over several mediums which the researchers could use. Khan highlighted the data mining process under which research scholars could easily collect information related to their subject on the internet.
At the end Dr Kiran Sovanur Head on Practice from Rani Chennamma University Bulgaum Karnataka presented a detail overview of data mining along with the websites available for the purpose.