PAPER ID:IJIM/V.5(VIII)/1-5/1

AUTHOR: Asha D Varghese

TITLE :AN ANALYSIS OF PROFILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VIDWAN EXPERT DATABASE

Abstract: Vidwan is an Indian Experts Database developed and maintained by INFLIBNET centre and it is available for the public in free of cost to identify the subject experts in their respective fields of study. This paper aims to examine the Vidwan expert’s database of scientists/ researchers and other faculty members of Indian institutions. The study adopted web content analysis to collect data related to Vidwan database and it is found that Vidwan database has 54974 plus experts by organisation, 64314 plus subject wise experts and 721999 plus citations, State University occupied in the first position with 14342 (26.08%) of experts in Organization category.

Keywords: Vidwan; INFLIBNET; and Expert Database.

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