Education practice and research in Astrophysics: a study of Ph.D. researchers conducted in Indian Universities

Abstract

"The analysis of the pursued researches in the any field is very valuable for an education policy maker as this kind of analysis gives the overviews of the areas which are neglected and over pursued. In the present world, we are dependent on technologies. It is an epoch of science, technology and information, where, we can get all the information about the things surrounding us through technology. But, in primeval period, the curiosity about the space was resolved, with the beginning of Astrophysics. The present paper deals with researches in the most basic field of science i.e. ‘Astrophysics’. There are about 1401 and 328 research articles from Indian researchers in Scopus and Web of Science respectively in the field of Astrophysics. The Ph.D. thesis is the building block for any discipline. Looking to the importance of the field, in the present paper, a significant effort has been made to reconnoitre the Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities (Indcat) for collecting the entire thesis related to Astrophysics and analysing those using Scientometrics tool which focuses on the quantitative features and characteristics of science and scientific research."