RESEARCH OUTPUT OF PLANT BREEDING SCIENTIST: A SPECIAL REFERENCE WITH GOOGLE SCHOLAR AND SCOPUS DATABASES

A good researcher would plan, execute, and complete the project and further the experimental data converted to research documents. Different publishers publish these research documents through online and offline mode in different categories such as research articles, case studies, technical reports, etc. Nowadays, a scientist's research output, research findings, and its impact can be found easily. Today, the publications in the specific databases for an individual scientist can be found available electronically. The funding agencies select the project proposal based on the innovative ideas and research background of the scientist. Therefore, the measurement of the impact of these documents in the scientific community is mandatory. The present study focused on analyzing the impact of research output published by Professor Dr.M.Pandian, Plant breeder, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Tamil Nadu, India based on citations, and h index of his published documents. In this study, Google Scholar and Scopus database used to collect the data up to the year 2020. According to the Google Scholar database, it was found that 413 citations of research documents published by researchers from different places of the world cited his research papers, whereas Scopus shows 73 citations of documents. The papers published by this researcher would help in receiving awards from different agencies at national and international levels.