Research Trends in Odia Language and Literature
a study of Shodhganga repository
Keywords:
Doctoral theses, Electronic thesis and dissertations, Odhisha, Odia language and literature, ShodhgangaAbstract
Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETD) play a vital role in the progress of research heritage.
Shodhganga is the archiving of Indian doctoral theses and dissertations, it helps in raising the
standard and quality of research. This paper has examined the contribution of theses and
dissertations in Odia language and literature. This research has been collected from 8
universities of Odisha a total of 1,126 theses data from Shodhganaga during 1905-2023. The
data carpentry tool Open Refine has been used for data refinement, universities h-index and i10
index fetched from Open Alex and the Gender API used for identification of gender scholars
and supervisors. This research has found that following key results most productive university
is Utkal University (contribution, 70.15%), and 1984 to 2003 is the most productive period.
This study also found that the highest number of theses have been supervised by Ashutosh
Pattanaik, affiliated with Utkal University. In gender ratio,91.38% of the supervisors are male,
followed by 60.57% of scholars who are male.
