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Measuring Psychology Research Output of Indian Universities

Suresh K Chauhan *

UGC-Infonet Digital Library consortium was formally launched in the year 2004. Through this programme, University Grants Commission (UGC) provided free access to scholarly electronic journals of internationally renowned publishers to all Indian universities who are directly coming under the preview of UGC. One of the main objectives of introducing UGC-Infonet was to improve quantity and quality of Indian scholarly literature at international level in all areas of learning. In this paper an attempt is being made to analyses the status of research output in area of Psychology . A broad evaluation is being made to assess articles produced by India and especially by those universities who have been freely accessing UGC-Infonet e-resources. The assessment is made by using Bibliometric techniques in which articles production in scholarly journals at international level and their quality through citation analysis is also being measured.