Scholarly Communication Pattern and Research Output of Tamilnadu, India during 2009 to 2018: A Case Study

This paper provides a bibliometric study of the research performance of Tamil Nadu, India, over the 10-year period between 2009 and 2018...

responsible for the organization and maintenance of standards in universities and colleges in Tamil Nadu.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) got third rank and Anna University got thirteen rank in all over the India during the year of 2019 [3] and National Institute Ranking Framework [4] (NIRF) ranking, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras bagged the 1 st ranks and Anna University got 13 th rank among the overall institutions in India during the year of 2019 The first university was established in 1857 at Chennai (Madras) University of Madras, followed in 1929 by Annamalai University Annamalai Nagar. These two universities are our nation's pre-independence universities [5].
In India, one of the most highly ranked institution available state was tamilnadu, by holding IITs, IIMs and leading medical and technical universities. Analyzing the scholarly research output of this Indian state will give an overview of the Indian research growth, further, to identify the gap in the research in different disciplines and research growth this study will give a greater benefit to all the researchers.

Review of Literature
Manuelaj Peter, Spurgeon Anandraj, Mohamed Idhris, Abdurahiman Pattukuthu and Arun Vijay Subbarayalu [6] analyzed Bibliometric study in Health Care Professionals in Saudi Arabia the journal "PLoS One" was the most effective journal published in 2014-18, with 680 of its publishing followed by the Saudi medical journal.  [12] revealed that research quality, as reflected in both the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and those journals ' qualitative indicators, improved during the duration of this study.

Methodology
The chosen data were downloaded from Scopus database. The were displayed were taken into the analysis. In Excel, a data sheet was prepared to record the information and then the data was entered from the paper itself manually.     found that only Medical and Engineering subjects' group were produced more scholarly research than the other subject disciples (Table 3).  Table 3     The fifteen highly productive Institutes get the highest publishing level in Tamil Nadu in Table 5 Table   6) (Figure 4). The number of publications was acquired from the Scopus database by each thematic field. The major thematic areas are represented by the distribution (Table 6). This figure   4 shows that the area with the highest percentage of documents This shows the need of improvement in the medical science research productivity (Table 7) ( Figure 5) [16].

Conclusion
The study was conducted based on Scopus database during 2009-2018 of Tamil Nadu. Publication growth in Tamil Nadu is expanding rapidly in recent years. UGC is the major funding sponsor in Tamil Nadu publications and UGC funded publication count is increased year by year nevertheless after between 2015 to 2018 publication count is decreased it shows that lack of publication awareness among the researchers. The Scopus database covered only standard publications that is one of the reasons for it. Most of the top-ranking authors are working in the non-governmental organizations. Publication count has increased to force Nongovernmental organization authors to work under them. In recent years, the number of publication count is increased year by year.