Research In India Research Articles

Supply chain management research in India: A quantitative & qualitative assessment of publication output during 2006–15

The present study looks at 912 publications from India on supply chain management as covered in Scopus database during 2006-15. The study reported an annual average growth rate of 11.74% for publications and citation impact of 9.34 citations per paper. The global publications on supply change management came from several countries, of which the top 10 accounted for 80.28% of global publication share during 2006-15. A total of 225 organizations and 304 authors participated in Indian research on supply chain management during 2006-15. The top 25 organizations contributed 53.62% publications share and accounted for 56.75% citations share. The top 25 authors contributed 36.69% publications share and accounted for 74.13% citation share. China is the world leader in research output on supply chain management, followed by USA, etc. The top 20 journals accounted for 52.98% share of the journal output. The top 20 highly cited papers varied from 61 to 829 citations per paper, and together these papers accounted for 3058 citations, resulting in the average at 278 citations per paper. Based on existing studies, the authors recommend accelerating the pace of research on this subject. The results of this scientometric analysis has facilitated in identification of the research direction of supply chain management research in India and has thus presented a valuable tool for researchers to access the literature in this area.

Bridging the rigour-relevance gap in management research through collaboration: an empirical investigation and implications

The academic research relevance to industry is an ongoing debate, and it is considered of little relevance to practitioners. The wider gap between academic research and practitioner disciplines leads to irrelevant theory formulation and invalid practice. This paper reassesses the rigour-relevance gap in the context of management research in India and suggests that collaboration between academicians and researchers can bridge the gap. The collaborative research state is empirically examined among top 5% management researchers in India, and the growth of collaborative research is modelled. The model shows that the collaborative research among top Indian management researchers has reached its peak at around the year 2014 and has entered declining phase. While many of the researches are carried out in the light of the rigour-relevance debate in examining the problem and providing solutions, the present study focuses on the empirical analysis of the present state of collaborative research in India and models its growth.

Foramen magnum - Dry bone study and review of studies from India

Abstract Background and Aims: Of late, there is heightened interest in foramen magnum morphology and morphometry as evidenced by innumerable publications in most of the Indian and foreign research journals publishing anatomical studies. The main objective of our study was to report the morphometric data of foramen magnum from Indian population as evidenced by dry bone study. The objective of the review was to report morphometric studies from India and to compare the data between two regions. Methodology: Forty adult dry skulls were studied for morphometric data of foramen magnum. Antero-posterior diameter and width of the foramen were considered. An extensive search for articles with foramen magnum either in the title or keywords was done using PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, SciELO, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases was carried out in December 2017. Search terms restricted to foramen magnum morphometry in dry bones and CT scan studies. Results: The mean AP length and width of foramen magnum was 31.5 ± 3.4 mm and 27.1 ± 3 mm respectively. The mean of foramen magnum index was 1.2±0.2. Out of 37 records, 28 dry bone studies, 8 CT scan studies and one autopsy study was reviewed. A total of 2635 dry bones and 1165 CT scans were studied in 37 studies. Conclusions: There is unprecedented surge in published reports on morphometry of foramen magnum, both dry bone studies and radiological studies. There is no difference between morphometric data between dry bone studies and radiological studies. There is no significant difference between data from two states of India.

Role of decision making style and innovativeness in Indian entrepreneurial firms

The paper studies the effect of perceived decision making style and organisational innovativeness in Indian entrepreneurial firms. Studies in the past have focused only on the relation between the two constructs briefly. However, in the Indian context research is still scarce. The study used the questionnaire method to understand the relation between constructs. Perceived top management team has a positive relation with innovativeness in entrepreneurial firms. The study widens its scope by including the third construct perceived top management decision making style, in order to test the relation and its effect. The study findings indicated that perceived top management team vision and perceived top management team decision making style had a significant positive relation. Perceived decision making style acts as a moderator variable between perceived top management team (TMT) vision and organisational innovativeness.

REVIEW OF THE LATEST RESEARCH ON COAL, ENVIRONMENT, AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES

Fossil fuels, coal in particular, are indispensable sources of energy necessary for today's technological and economical progress throughout the world. Their burning releases numerous environmental contaminants, like CO2, SO2, and a range of organic and inorganic compounds. Arguably, however, and despite the fact that these emissions have resulted in air pollution and regional acid rain problems, there is no evidence yet of their usage completely replaced by a low-CO2–producing energy source. Coal, due to its unique composition and characteristics, has been actively investigated by scientists and technologists from various disciplines in a search for economically valuable metals and medically active substances. Also, coal is used universally for the fabrication of new nanomaterials in laboratories, and utilized in waste-treatment and clean-coal technologies. The aim of the paper was to focus on the latest advancements in coal research of leading international scientists from India, China, and USA. Also, the paper is briefly presenting selected papers of several Indian and Croatian research groups addressing environmental issues and emerging waste-treatment technologies. Although the two countries are different from the geographical, historical, economical, and industrial point of view, the both have been linked with the coal extraction and its usage in power generation and associated heavy industries.

Thin films research in india: A scientometric analysis of research output during 2000–15

The study examines thin films research output from India during 2000 to 2015 on different parameters including the growth, document type-wise distribution of publications, productivity and impact of most productive institutions and authors, preferred sources of publications in which Indian thin films researchers publish their works, and contribution of major collaborative partner countries. Scopus database has been used to retrieve the data for 16 years (2000-2015). It was found that India contributes 5.26% to the global research output on thin films. The highest i.e. 98.22% contributions appear in journals and conference proceedings. The top 15 most productive institutions and top 10 productive authors contributed 49.67% and 11.79% share to India’s publication output and 53.56% and 17.41% share to India’s citation output during 2000 to 2015. The top 31 publication sources together contributed 44.55% share to total thin films research output of India.

The need for indian physiotherapy research publications: Understanding journalology and predatory journals

Publishing a scientific paper can result in fruitful new scientific collaborations, and researchers, including the physiotherapists, and get recognition. The basis of publications is to create a public record of original contributions to knowledge, to encourage scientists to “speak” directly to one another, and to disseminate generated knowledge. This brief communications underlines the nuances of publication and journalology especially to get 'taught' on the principles of academic and scholarly publication, and not to get 'caught' with the pseudo-academics of 'predatory' journal publishing.

Bridging the rigour-relevance gap in management research through collaboration: an empirical investigation and implications

The academic research relevance to industry is an ongoing debate, and it is considered of little relevance to practitioners. The wider gap between academic research and practitioner disciplines leads to irrelevant theory formulation and invalid practice. This paper reassesses the rigour-relevance gap in the context of management research in India and suggests that collaboration between academicians and researchers can bridge the gap. The collaborative research state is empirically examined among top 5% management researchers in India, and the growth of collaborative research is modelled. The model shows that the collaborative research among top Indian management researchers has reached its peak at around the year 2014 and has entered declining phase. While many of the researches are carried out in the light of the rigour-relevance debate in examining the problem and providing solutions, the present study focuses on the empirical analysis of the present state of collaborative research in India and models its growth.

Introduction: Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways

This special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal offers a discussion of settler-colonial biopolitics as it targets Indigenous life across a range of transnationally related, yet distinct, sites of colonial settlement. Moving across these sites, it examines how settler colonial regimes at different locations and at different positions within an economically hierarchized globality employ forms of biopolitics in historically specific ways to their own ends. At the same time, this special issue explores Indigenous life in its manifold manifestations as a site of resurgence, decolonial resistance, and enduring continuity that exceeds any attempt at biopolitical control. The contributions to this special issue thus engage scholarly conversations in critical Indigenous and settler colonial studies that connect a biopolitical logic of racialization, regularization, and naturalization to a geopolitical logic of dispossession and removal as inherent to the eliminatory logics of settler colonialism.

Personal Experiences with Tribal IRBs, Hidden Hegemony of Researchers, and the Need for an Inter-cultural Approach: Views from an American Indian Researcher.

In approximately the last 20 years, the self-protection capacity of many American Indian tribes has significantly increased to include the review of research requests by a tribally based IRB. While these tribal IRBs are trained using a curriculum derived from the Belmont Report, there is need to recognize the cultural specificity of the Belmont Report and its potential for conflict or inappropriateness when applied to populations with deep differences in cultural constructs compared to the majority population. However, recognition of the sometimes paradigmatically different culture of American Indian tribes compared to the U.S. culture at large seldom occurs. Moreover, significant and subtle factors of researchers' professional, organizational, and personal cultures that relate to the research enterprise are essentially never addressed by themselves or the tribal IRB. Nonetheless, tribal IRBs continue and serve as a procedural guide for investigators intending to conduct respectful research with American Indian populations.

A Status Report on Autonomic Nervous System: the Indian Research Scenario during the Last Five Years

A Status Report on Autonomic Nervous System: the Indian Research Scenario during the Last Five Years

Development, refinement and validation of a lifestyle instrument in India: a confirmatory factor analytic approach

The purpose of this paper is to develop, refine and validate a lifestyle instrument in Indian context. At present, the changing demographic profiles, increasing income levels, urbanisation, technology, globalisation and a free flow of ideas from within and outside the country, has brought about a dramatic shift in consumer taste, preferences and lifestyles. Furthermore, the rapid change in the Indian consumers' attitudes and profiles has made it difficult for organisations to cater to the consumer needs and the marketers face an uphill task of catering to the changing consumer perception. Surprisingly, there is a dearth of appropriate scales for measuring such needs and requirements in the Indian research settings. Altogether, the study is a significant beginning towards assembling a well-defined and more holistic image of factors influencing the lifestyles of Indians. The paper also discusses theoretical and managerial implications of the study.

A review of skeletal dysplasia research in India

We aimed to review the contributions by Indian researchers to the subspecialty of skeletal dysplasias (SDs). Literature search using specific keywords in PubMed was performed to retrieve all the published literature on SDs as on July 6, 2017. All published literature on SDs wherein at least one author was from an Indian institute was included. Publications were grouped into different categories based on the major emphasis of the research paper. Five hundred and forty publications in English language were retrieved and categorized into five different groups. The publications were categorized as reports based on: (i) phenotypes (n = 437), (ii) mutations (n = 51), (iii) novel genes (n = 9), (iv) therapeutic interventions (n = 31), and (v) reviews (n = 12). Most of the publications were single-patient case reports describing the clinical and radiological features of the patients affected with SDs (n = 352). We enlisted all the significant Indian contributions. We have also highlighted the reports in which Indians have contributed to discovery of new genes and phenotypes. This review highlights the substantial Indian contributions to SD research, which is poised to reach even greater heights given the size and structure of our population, technological advances, and expanding national and international collaborations.

Prevalence and predictors of occupational stress among quarry workers in rural Rajasthan, India

PurposeDespite increasing recognition of the importance of mental health at the workplace, there is very little evidence and limited research information on the issue of the poor mental health of the workers, especially miners. The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between stress faced by quarry workers in consonance with their socio-demographic characteristics and their working conditions.Design/methodology/approachThis study was a cross-sectional study of quarry workers with comparison groups in the Karauli district of Rajasthan, a state located in north-western India. The study was conducted during the period May-September 2014, as part of a doctoral program. The study sample comprised a total of 218 quarry workers along with a comparison group of 203 non-miners. The level of occupational stress was assessed by using a General Health Questionnaire consisting of 12 questions.FindingsThis study found that the comparison group was at a low risk of psychological stress as compared to the mine workers. The independent risk factors for occupational stress among workers were illiteracy, gender (female), married, divorced/separated, and suffering from some occupational health problem.Social implicationsThis study concluded that mine workers are at a high level of stress, which underscores the need for urgent interventions from the government to address the issue. This is especially important as mine workers make significant contributions to the national income.Originality/valueThis paper fulfills an identified need to study the mental health status of quarry workers, thereby helping fill a persistent gap in Indian research on this issue.

Role of metabolic enzymes in conferring resistance to synthetic pyrethroids, organophosphates, and phenylpyrazole compounds in Rhipicephalus microplus

ABSTRACTThe study was conducted to work out possible correlation of resistance with functional enzymes in tick isolates of Rhipicephalus microplus collected from two agro-climatic zones of Uttar Pradesh, India. Adult immersion test was adopted using previously established discriminating concentrations of synthetic pyrethroids (SP) (deltamethrin, cypermethrin), organophosphates (OP) (diazinon, coumaphos), and phenylpyrazole (fipronil) compounds against these isolates. Quantitative enzyme profiling of esterases, cytochrome P450, and glutathione S-transferase (GST) enzymes was done to correlate resistance and enzyme activity. All the four isolates were found to be resistant to SP having resistant factor (RF) of 2.9–18.05 and to one of the OP compounds, diazinon showing RF of 3.5–15.07 but susceptible to coumaphos (RF < 1.4). The RF values of the four isolates were also found between 0.8 and 1.36 showing susceptibility to phenylpyrazole compound (fipronil). The enzymatic profiling revealed elevation in β-esterase, CYP450, and GST level in comparison to reference susceptible Indian veterinary research institute-I (IVRI-I) tick line. Significant elevated activity (p < 0.05) of β-esterase was observed in Lucknow (LKO), Kanpur (KNP), and Moradabad (MBD) isolates while LKO, AMR, and MBD isolates showed significant increase in GST activity (p < 0.05 to p < 0.001). Although higher enzyme activity was recorded in some isolates having higher RF, positive correlation between RF and enzyme activity was not recorded, thus confirming the role of multiple mechanisms in conferring resistance in field isolates.

Transdisciplinary Innovation: Connecting Ideas from Professional and User Networks

Transdisciplinary innovation — what is it and how does it work? In this paper, the way disparate professional and community actors may work together is considered, drawing on case study data from three different Australian–Indian academic research collaborations. One considered food sector SME innovation practice in the two countries and the other two considered the deployment in India of radical technologies developed by international teams to deliver social benefits. The collection of knowledge artifacts from disparate sources was the norm. Implementation of an innovative idea or technology application commonly involved interactive learning from parallel testing of possible combinations. Six themes to be explored further emerged from this exploratory study. These related to social networking, interaction protocols, the use of boundary objects, knowledge sharing and modes of research.

Trax on the Trail in the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Classroom

Research Article| December 01 2017 Trax on the Trail in the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Classroom Laura Moore Pruett; Laura Moore Pruett Laura Moore Pruett (associate professor of music and chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts) teaches courses in music history, theory, and appreciation, as well as interdisciplinary offerings. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American music and culture. Publications include articles on the works and career of Louis Moreau Gottschalk in 19th-Century Music and the Journal of the Society for American Music. Her current project is an edition of Gottschalk’s two symphonies for the series Music of the United States of America, after which a new project will focus on the life and writings of Bostonian music critic John Sullivan Dwight. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Anne Boxberger Flaherty Anne Boxberger Flaherty Anne Boxberger Flaherty (associate professor of political science at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts) teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on American politics. Her primary area of research is on indigenous peoples and politics. Anne’s work has been published in a variety of edited volumes such as The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture and journals such as the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. She is currently working on a book manuscript about Native sovereignty and state enforcement of excise taxes on reservation sales. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2017) 35 (4): 531–536. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.35.4.0531 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laura Moore Pruett, Anne Boxberger Flaherty; Trax on the Trail in the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Classroom. American Music 1 January 2017; 35 (4): 531–536. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.35.4.0531 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Foreword to the Special Issue on Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing in India

India is at the forefront in several areas of research related to Earth observation and remote sensing. Its space program has been in the news often in recent times, but other aspects of Indian research in geosciences and remote sensing remain relatively unknown to the international community of researchers in the field. It is the objective of this special issue of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE JSTARS) - Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing in India, to highlight the work of Indian scientists in these areas. A call for papers was announced during November 2016. In response, 60 manuscripts were received from variety of fields. Out of these, 17 papers were selected for publication. The selected papers are briefly summarized.

India-United States Dialogue on Traditional Medicine: Toward Collaborative Research and Generation of an Evidence Base.

Therapies originating from traditional medical systems are widely used by patients in both India and the United States. The first India-US Workshop on Traditional Medicine was held in New Delhi, India, on March 3 and 4, 2016, as a collaboration between the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) of the Government of India, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services. It was attended by Indian and US policymakers, scientists, academics, and medical practitioners from various disciplines. The workshop provided an opportunity to open a dialogue between AYUSH and NCI to identify promising research results and potential topics for Indo-US collaboration. Recommendations that emerged from the workshop underlined the importance of applying rational and scientific approaches for drug development; standardizing traditional medicine products and procedures to ensure reliability and reproducibility; promotion of collaboration between Indian traditional medicine practitioners and researchers and US researchers; greater integration of evidence-based traditional medicine practices with mainstream medical practices in India; and development of training programs between AYUSH and NCI to facilitate crosstraining. Several positive developments took place after the thought-provoking deliberations.

Mapping of Indian Biomedicine Research: A Scientometric Analysis of Research Output During 2012 – 2016

This study analyzes the research activities of India in biomedicine during 2012–2016, based on the total publica-tion output, its growth rate, quality of papers published and rank of India in the global context. Patterns of international collaborative research output and the major partner institu-tions of India are also discussed. This study also evaluates the research performance of different types of Indian biomedical and research foundations and the characteristics of published literature in Indian and foreign journals. It also analyzes the medical research output by disease and organs. Materials and Methods: The publication data on biomedicine has been re-trieved by using Web of Science (WoS) database. Results: total number of 2712 publications as indexed in web of science da-tabase during 2012-2016. The results show that there insignifi-cant growth in Biomedicine literature published from India. It may be researcher, institutions or India’s collaboration with other countries, in all aspects considerable growth can be ob-served Conclusion: High quality research in India is grossly inadequate and requires strategic planning, investment and resource support. There is also a need to improve the existing biomedical education system, which should foster research culture.