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most citedImpact of h-index on authors ranking: A comparative analysis of Scopus and WoS

4 citations · 7 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.DL2025

Self-Citations in Academic Excellence: Analysis of the Top 1% Highly Cited India-Affiliated Research Papers

Kiran Sharma, Parul Khurana

Citations demonstrate the credibility, impact, and connection of a paper with the academic community. Self-citations support research continuity but, if excessive, may inflate metr…

cs.IR2025

Assessing Research Impact in Indian Conference Proceedings: Insights from Collaboration and Citations

Kiran Sharma, Parul Khurana

Conferences serve as a crucial avenue for scientific communication. However, the increase in conferences and the subsequent publication of proceedings have prompted inquiries regar…

cs.IR2025

Retracted Citations and Self-citations in Retracted Publications: A Comparative Study of Plagiarism and Fake Peer Review

Kiran Sharmaa, Parul Khurana

Retracted citations remain a significant concern in academia as they perpetuate misinformation and compromise the integrity of scientific literature despite their invalidation. To…

cs.IR2024

Quantitative Analysis of IITs' Research Growth and SDG Contributions

Kiran Sharma, Akshat Nagori, Manya +2

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are vital to India's research ecosystem, advancing technology and engineering for industrial and societal benefits. This study reviews th…

cs.DL2024★ 1 cited

Unraveling Retraction Dynamics in COVID-19 Research: Patterns, Reasons, and Implications

Parul Khurana, Ziya Uddin, Kiran Sharma

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while the world sought solutions, some scholars exploited the situation for personal gains through deceptive studies and manipulated data. This paper pr…

cs.DL2021

Emerging trends and collaboration patterns unveil the scientific production in blockchain technology: A bibliometric and network analysis from 2014-2020

Kiran Sharma, Parul Khurana

Significant attention in the financial industry has paved the way for blockchain technology to spread across other industries, resulting in a plethora of literature on the subject.…

cs.DL2021

Proof of Reference(PoR): A unified informetrics based consensus mechanism

Parul Khurana, Geetha Ganesan, Gulshan Kumar +1

Bibliometrics is useful to analyze the research impact for measuring the research quality. Different bibliographic databases like Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar etc. are ac…

cs.DL2021★ 1 cited

A weighted unified informetrics based on Scopus and WoS

Parul Khurana, Geetha Ganesan, Gulshan Kumar +1

Numerous indexing databases keep track of the number of publications, citations, etc. in order to maintain the progress of science and individual. However, the choice of journals a…

cs.DL2021★ 1 cited

Impact of -index on authors ranking: An improvement to the h-index for lower-ranked author

Parul Khurana, Kiran Sharma

In academia, the research performance of a faculty is either evaluated by the number of publications or the number of citations. Most of the time h-index is widely used during the…

cs.DL2021★ 4 cited

Impact of h-index on authors ranking: A comparative analysis of Scopus and WoS

Parul Khurana, Kiran Sharma

In academia, the research performance of the faculty members is either evaluated by the number of publications or the number of citations. Most of the time h-index is widely used d…

cs.DL2020

Growth and dynamics of Econophysics: A bibliometric and network analysis

Kiran Sharma, Parul Khurana

Digitization of publications, advancement in communication technology, and the availability of bibliographic data have made it easier for the researchers to study the growth and dy…