Unveiling the Open Access Outputs, Citation Pattern, and Altmetric Attention in the Book Citation Index by Indian Higher Education Institutions: A Data Carpentry Approach

Abstract

This paper presents the open access status of Indian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Book Citation Index (BKCI). In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the BKCI as a part of the Science Citation Index for books, chapters, editorial books, etc. It examined the open access status, citations, and altmetric attention score of Indian higher education institutions. The data carpentry tool OpenRefine was employed to extract OA status, citation value and altmetric attention score with a REST API call through a data wrangling process. This study examined a total of 501 books and chapters, 2,229 authors, 8,920 citations and an altmetric attention score of 1013.66. The results showed that DOI publications accounted for only 5.56% (n=26) of the books and chapters published across four OA routes. Green OA is dominant OA (accounting for 16 books and chapters). The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is the highest productive institution in BKCI.