Abstract
This paper aims to evaluate the faculty research performance on the basis of publication output, citations and h- index of professors working in Sri Lankan universities. Six hundred fifty professors from different universities of Sri Lanka served as respondents. Using scientometrics, publications of professors spanning 1980-2014 are analyzed. It found that based on the mean h-index used in this study, faculty of science is the best performer with the mean h-index of 5.55, followed by medicine (5.24), engineering (3.81), agriculture (3.76), management (2.74) and arts (2.62). This study further revealed that, the faculty of agriculture has the highest percentage (97.37 %.) of professors with published output; they have at least one research paper. Study also measured the universities’ position in the each disciplines on the basis of the mean h-index. The results showed that out of six faculties, which are grouped in this study, University of Peradeniya (PDN) is found to be the most predominant in agriculture, arts, science and engineering). In medicine, University of Kelaniya is the best on the basis of the mean h-index with 6.85. In the case of the faculty of management, University of Jaffna had the highest mean h-index of 7.75. On the other hand result indicates that the performance of arts among almost all of the universities except University of Colombo and PDN were very poor and similar. It is recommended that research output on arts, social sciences and management across the university faculty must be strengthened and mechanism should be introduced by the authorities.Journal of the University Librarians’ Association of Sri Lanka, Vol. 19, Issue 1, October 2015, Page 54-70
Highlights
The universities of a country influence in all aspects of a country’s future, its development and place the country in the knowledge map of the world
The objective of this study is to evaluate and measure the faculty wise research performance on the basis of publication output, citations and h- index of professors in Sri Lankan universities
Number of publications by Professors as proxy of faculty output, Likewise, the total number of citations received by Professors as a proxy for faculties’ quality indicator, and h-index of professor as quality & quantity indicator in this study
Summary
The universities of a country influence in all aspects of a country’s future, its development and place the country in the knowledge map of the world. There is an increasing interest in the evaluation of universities using some important aspects, research and scientific activities of the departments or faculties. World universities are transforming their policy from teaching - centered to research - centered. University academics engage in teaching, learning and research. There are no “teaching-only” universities in Sri Lanka, as all academics are required to carry out both research and teaching. As discussed by Etzkowitz (2003) that the transformation of the university from a teaching institution into one that combined teaching with research, is still ongoing all over the globe. Research output can be considered as valid and useful tool in the evaluation process of university performance. The British research system, through its Research Assessment Exercise (http://www.rae.ac.uk), has achieved a highquality level of evaluation, and is probably the example to follow (Imperial and Navarro, 2007)
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