Abstract:
An institutional repository (IR)is an archive for collecting, preserving, and dissem inating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution.IR of the Faculty of
Medicine, the University of Jaffna, functions as a platform for faculty academics
and researchers to host their research publications. This study analyzes the distri bution and extent of research publications available in the IR, and the pattern of
articles published by the Faculties of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences at the
University of Jaffna from 2012 to 2021. Further, the study identifies the names of
the most prolific authors and their citations. A web search was conducted, and the
data for the study were downloaded from the same IR. The research output of the
Faculty of Medicine was collected from the Google Scholar profile using publish
or perish version 8 database. The study revealed that IR categorized the seven
communities and 62 sub-communities. A total of 1950 documents were uploaded
under 24 types during the study period; among them, only 48.4% (n=944) of the
documents were research publications, of which 15.88% (150) were journal full
text. Department of Clinical Medicine (19.8%, n=187), Community & Family
Medicine (18.1%, n=171) and Biochemistry (16.7%, n=158) have the highest num ber of research publications deposited in the IR. However, the total research output
is 1187 during the study period (2012-2021) in Google Scholar. Considering the
number of citations,Arasaratnam V is the top author with 959 citations for her 140
publications and 15 h index. The study suggested conducting frequent awareness
programsfor faculty members and finding a mechanism to collect all publications
to uplift faculty members’ promotions, university ranking, institutional visibility,
and feasible foundation of institutional knowledge management and help to expose
the grey literature.
