Impact Analysis of Shodhganga ETD Repository through the Lens of Scopus Citing Documents
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2023-11-17
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Shodhganga: a reservoir of Indian theses, a repository developed and maintained by the
INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, hosts and makes accessible thousands of Indian Electronic
Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) (PhD theses, including a few thousand MPhil theses). Are
those PhD research works used or impacting scholarly communication and academic research
in general, and if so, how? To investigate, Elsevier’s Scopus database was searched through
its references search feature using search terms/links, i.e., shodhganga,
shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in, sg.inflibnet.ac.in, retrievedfromshodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in, and
baadalsg.inflibnet.ac.in. It was pre-convinced by the researchers that the references list of
any citing documents in which the searched terms/links will appear must have referred to or
cited Shodhganga or any of its theses available. A total of 2042 references with the terms
mentioned above/links were extracted for further analysis from a total of 1764 citing documents
that were retrieved from Scopus. However, the analysis and findings of the study are based on
the details of only 1764 handles/theses after removing duplicates, handles those details were
either not found or withdrawn from Shodhganga. This article attempts to analyse the impact
of India's national ETD repository, Shodhganga, and its theses through reference analysis,
finding the top theses. These top universities are cited, and so on.
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26th International Symposium, ETD 2023, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 26-28 October, 2023
Keywords
Citing Documents, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), Impact Analysis, Reference Analysis, Scopus, Shodhganga