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On the banks of Shodhganga: analysis of the academic genealogy graph of an Indian ETD repository

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• Volume 128 , pages 3879–3914, ( 2023 )

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• Dhananjay Kumar 1 ,
• Plaban Kumar Bhowmick 1 ,
• Sumana Dey 2 &
• Debarshi Kumar Sanyal 3  

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Academic genealogy graphs capture information about the lineage of researchers, encode how knowledge flows from advisors to proteges, and shed light on the birth and evolution of disciplines. In this paper, we study the academic genealogy graph/network (AGN) in Shodhganga which is the Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) database. We have disambiguated the names of the researchers in Shodhganga and constructed the Shodhganga-AGN, which we have analyzed with topological metrics proposed in the literature on general graphs as well as that on genealogy networks. The metrics studied have been able to identify the institutes and researchers that have played a significant role in the development of the Indian higher education system. The largest connected component of Shodhganga-AGN consists of 1356 researchers and 1437 advisor–advisee relationships. The component is dominated by researchers from science and is affiliated primarily with three institutions. We have also studied subgraphs in the genealogy network to identify supervision patterns, and found that most of the subgraph instances connect researchers within a single institution or subject. Thus, our study is a detailed insightful analysis of the academic genealogy of researchers indexed in Shodhganga, and captures the decades-old research ecosystem of India, as expressed through the formal advisor–advisee relationships in Indian universities.

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Algorithm 2-In all the above cases, we have imposed the natural constraint that the advisor’s (who is potentially the same person as the advisee) date of thesis submission to be earlier than the advisee’s thesis submission date. In the case where the number of candidates (advisee) to merge with the advisor is greater than one, we further check them across the available attributes to find the best candidate

Algorithm 3-Initially students with same names and having same department and institute are assigned the same index even if they are referring to different individuals. In that scenario, if advisor information (advisor thesis) is available, we are using that to find the most likely student among all the students (with the same name) associated with him/her. After that, group the remaining students by thesis title and assign them with different indices (Assumption: very less likely that two students with the same name and in the same institute and department has different thesis titles associated with same advisor)

Algorithm 4-Applicable if multiple advisors advised the student (multiple records exist, same student name has variation due to human error (check Appendix Table 2 )), or duplicate records exist, or wrongly combined thesis title. The function merges students with similar names (with slight variation) having the same thesis title. If student names are different across the same thesis index (similarity value less than threshold value), then there is a chance that two different thesis indices are merged wrongly. Therefore, we will not change the student indices

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Top researchers in shodhganga-agn based on different genealogical metrics, institute abbreviation, nirf ranking, and ddc subject code with subject name, extracted subgraphs structures from shodhganga-agn.

Extracted subgraphs instances from Shodhganga-AGN

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The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET centre provides a platform for Universities and research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally maintained digital repositories, not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research. All Universities, who conducts Ph.D./M.Phil. programme are eligible to join Shodhganga by signing MoU with INFLIBNET centre and appointing a University Co-ordinator. UGC may also provide financial assistance to the INFLIBNET centre for subscription to software tools that detect plagiarized portion of theses and dissertations. This paper is administered to study about the Universities who joined with Shodhganga and how much their contribution of Ph.D. theses and in particular the Universities having Ph.D. in Library and Information Science.

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Sociology Research Topics Making Projects Professional

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Are you enthusiastic about investigating sociological issues and phenomena but every time you are assigned to such an assignment you cannot decide on appropriate sociology topics to research? The list of diverse sociology research topics can address the problem of a constant lack of creative ideas. Boost your inspiration!

Sociological Research Strategies

The choice of sociology research topics proves puzzling since it has a few intricacies you should prioritize. Primarily, it is your passion for a selected subject. Another aspect is your competence. It implies that the chosen sociology research paper topics should meet your academic goals. 

The last nuance, which is critical, but learners routinely omit, is a sociological strategy required for investigating selected sociology research topics. Competent top-rated coursework writing service authors distinguish a few major sociological methods that can be employed for revealing sociology research topics thoroughly.

• Information analysis. 

While most inexperienced authors use this method as only one in their studies, it is one of the numerous strategies you can take to deep dive into sociology research paper topics.

• Case studies.

Investigating particular cases independently or gleaning ideas from earlier prepared studies is always a viable option.

Concluding on an in-depth representative sample is more sensible than gathering merely theoretical data without practical evidence.

• Interviews.

Savvy specialists are familiar with insights into research topics for sociology and share their expertise in such conversations.

When you have structured details about sociological research methods and are aware of how to employ them in practice, your chances of conveying the main message and revealing sociology topics decently are doubled. Authors familiar with basic methodological techniques no longer face a lack of creative ideas and data while completing research projects. 

Interesting Sociology Research Topics

Sociology topics to research comprise questions related to the interaction between diverse cultures, social institutions and their place in people’s socialization, personal identity determination, educational systems and their effect on the economic development of the states, political systems, place of technology in social classes stratification, behavior patterns, and many other sociology research topics you can investigate in your sociology research paper . 

Sociology research topics are routinely categorized by aspects they cover within sociology as a science. However, ten interesting sociology research topics on various sociological niches are gathered below to highlight the most pressing issues in the field. Look through the sociology research topics list and glean ideas for custom titles.

• Problems of social mobility and migration processes in the world.
• Sociological interpretation of social self-organization.
• Social stratification measurement criteria.
• Social status: Psychological pressure and biases.
• National mentality influences a country’s brand.
• Traditions and laws are regulators of human behavior.
• Interaction of social and personal values.
• Specificity of social conflicts between individuals of different social statuses.
• Social innovation: Breakthrough in self-acceptance and personal awareness.
• Social process management: Major stakeholders.

Easy sociology research topics

If it is your primary experience of investigating sociology research topics, what about clear-cut but interesting sociology research topics? The straightforward titles do not imply worse results but guarantee sufficient theoretical and empirical information on such subjects. Check a few simple sociology research topics below.

• The social knowledge structure. 
• The role of sociology in modern society formation.
• Empirical sociology in the structure of social knowledge.
• Staging of the formation and development of sociology as an independent science.
• Positive and negative aspects of marginalization.
• Social structure transformation trends.
• Socialization’s role in the person’s awareness of their identity.
• Decision management specifics in interpersonal relationships.
• Models of economic behavior in countries with a high development level.
• Effective methods for fostering employee motivation.

Sociology research topics for high school students

Finding good sociology research topics is not as challenging as opting for ideas that meet the project instructions. If your task description gives you freedom of choice, you can look through the following sociology research topics list and opt for a perfect match to your interests. 

• Peer pressure influences decision-making.
• Teens’ sociological data processing methodology. 
• Factors of young people’s opinion formation. 
• Teen’s social adaptation after emigration. 
• Symbols of national culture.
• Social space interpretation’s effect on youth’s worldviews.
• Social efficiency of law in less developed countries.
• Manifestations of social maturity in practice.
• Ageism is an obstacle to adaptation in the workplace.
• Social capital in economic relations.

Sociology research topics on mental health

Anxiety, mental disorders, lack of sleep, and energy are critical social issues of the current technological generation. If you opt for such sociology research topics and dive deeper into their investigation, chances of completing a project at a decent score are high. Become familiar with good topics for sociology research paper relevant to a huge audience.

• Impact of social inequalities on mental health. 
• Background anxiety is a consequence of excess dopamine. 
• Practices of spreading awareness of the healthy sleep cruciality.
• Can health have a valuable dimension in modern society?
• Mainstreaming the mental disorders issue among young people at the state level.
• Impact of mental health care institutes’ policies on citizens’ decision-making patterns. 
• Dependence of the population’s psychological development level on the state’s social development.
• Stress resistance is the basis of professional health.
• Mental health is an economic and social good.
• The practice of including mental health services in work insurance plans.

Sociology research topics on family

The gap between young people’s and adults’ perceptions of family is growing so the research focus shifts to innovative sociology marriage and family research topics. As sociology is a multifaceted field, the variety of family sociology topics is immense.

• Family roles: Individual’s self-determination. 
• Intergenerational ties and gaps in worldview. 
• Key causes of marriage breakdown: Psychological incompatibilities of partners. 
• Proven practices of building mutual understanding on issues of raising children as a couple. 
• Globalizing systems of marital relations. 
• Psychological trauma at an early age affects the future success of an individual.
• The family’s function of emotional satisfaction.
• Living conditions and psycho-emotional state and their relationship with the mental health of family members.
• Legal protection of low-income families creates development opportunities.
• Leadership in the family: Cultural features.

Sociology research topics on gender

Gender identity, equality, rights, inclusion, and related sociology research topics are currently on the agenda. What research topics for sociology on gender do seem more eye-catching?

• Feminine and masculine traits: Foundations of gender profiling.
• Gender socialization in the family.
• The impact of feminism on worldview. 
• The place of parental instincts in gender determination. 
• Gender social norms: Information pressure.
• Reducing the social distance between people of different genders.
• Women in geopolitics in retrospect.
• Gender identification and stereotypes.
• Staging of the gender formation: Biological and sociological categories.
• Gender polarization issue.

Medical sociology research topics

Healthcare involves many stakeholders and takes a critical place in social life. Interactions between individuals, social phenomena in the medical field, and other sociology topics for research paper are appropriate for in-depth analysis. The issues of society’s perception of chronic and infectious diseases are pressing and may be effective options for sociology topics to research. It is up to you what aspect of healthcare sociology research topics to focus on.

• Pandemics have social phenomena peculiarities.
• Medical assistance and medical care differences in practice.
• Methods of sociological analysis of health care problems.
• The medical care availability’s influence on the mood of the population.
• Social causes and consequences of diseases.
• Spreading the ideas of preventive medicine in society.
• Accelerated trend of infections and viruses spread due to globalization.
• The impact of the aging of the nation on losses in the country’s health care sector.
• Ethics in medical practice.
• The specifics of medical statistics analytics.

Political sociology research paper topics

The scope of political science covers great sociology research topics worthy of discussion in your research project. A vast bulk of surveys, interviews, polls, and statistics are available on the internet and may be potential information material for in-depth study of topics for sociology research paper. Figure out intriguing sociology research topics about politics from the below examples.

• Forecasting the political situation in conditions of instability. 
• Political manipulation: Techniques of taking an advantageous position in the international arena. 
• Social pressure on political elites in retrospect. 
• Political sociology through the prism of philosophy. 
• Distribution of power in society. 
• The political consciousness phenomenon.
• A striking difference between democratic and totalitarian political institutions. 
• Political opposition: Strong advantages and pitfalls.
• Political privileges boost social stratification.
• Political parties’ evolution determines a country’s involved potential.

The diversity of sociology research topics rarely leads to a lack of creativity in opting for appropriate sociology topics for investigation. The above list of sociology research paper topics proves the facts. Nevertheless, learners face the wide selection of sociology research topics as a puzzling challenge having no idea how to finally decide what are genuinely good sociology research topics. Look through expert research topics in sociology and craft authentic social studies topics focusing on your needs and practical experience. Properly formulated sociology research topics are half of success!

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