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Table 10 and Fig. 9 also conveys that the share of research publications in Management, Pharmacy and general degree
Colleges is at a much smaller scale in comparison to publications in Overall, Universities and Engineering discipline. In
fact, in the Management discipline, the average publications count is 8.35 (Row 4; Column 8) per institute in three
years, i.e. a little less than three publications per year. However, since the top 100 institutions in Management category
publish 83.98% of publications, the average count for the top 100 is around 19 publications per year, which is fairly
good. As a further caution, it may be noted that this data pertains to publications belonging to the Management
discipline as categorized by the Web of Science. Clearly, many of the best management schools also publish in allied
areas such as Economics, Social Sciences, Information Technology and Psychology – which may not belong to
mainstream Management discipline, and therefore, excluded from consideration here.

7.2.2. Bradford’s Empirical Law as Applied to Concentration of Publications in Most Productive Institutions

Categories / Institutes/ Most Medium Low Least "0" Total
Domains Publications Productive Productive Productive Productive Publications

Overall HEIs 16 42 98 966 72 1194
Publications 115378 114273 113227 108109 0 450987
Universities HEIs 12 31 68 283 3 397
Publications 71654 71261 70776 66952 0 280643
Research HEIs 10 18 39 94 0 161
Institutions Publications 82334 81854 81027 75870 0 321085
Engineering HEIs 13 36 104 1041 45 1239
Publications 56913 57151 56802 55640 0 2 26506
Management HEIs 8 16 36 244 389 693
Publications 1469 1487 1464 1368 0 5788
Pharmacy HEIs 12 24 52 268 49 405
Publications 2496 2502 2432 2268 0 9698
Architecture HEIs 2 3 5 6 82 98
& Planning Publications 12 14 11 6 0 43
Medical HEIs 3 10 20 107 1 141
Publications 18942 18311 18021 15313 0 70587
Dental HEIs 8 18 36 87 2 151
Publications 714 678 685 613 0 2690
Agriculture & HEIs 3 8 17 55 9 92
Allied Sec. Publications 3400 3378 3246 2551 0 12575
Law HEIs 2 2 6 16 69 95
Publications 43 36 34 24 0 137
Colleges HEIs 38 81 159 701 309 1288
Publications 6481 6419 6368 6198 0 25466
Table 11. Comparative Research Output of Institutions in Various Categories and Domains:
Least Productive to the Most Productive Institutions

It is observed that the Bradford’s empirical law of concentration of journal articles in scientific periodicals is also
applicable to the research productivity of ranked HEIs. The Bradford’s Law states that articles in a given subject
concentrate heavily in a relatively small number of highly productive journals. As per the Bradford’s Law “if scientific
journals are arranged in order of decreasing productivity of articles in a given subject, they may be divided into a
nucleus of periodicals more particularly devoted to the subject, and several groups of zones containing the same
number of articles as the nucleus, when the number of periodicals in the nucleus and succeeding zones will be
as1:n:n2...

(Bradford, S.C. (1944). Sources of information on specific subjects. Engineering, 137, 1944, 85-86).

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