SUDHIER K G PILLAI

Dr.K. G. Sudhier is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur. He has more than 20 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at the University level (formerly in the University of Kerala). He holds MSc (Phys.), MLISc., PhD and qualified UGC-NET & JRF (LIS). Under his supervision 06 PhDs, 10 M Phils and 50+ MLISc Projects have been awarded. He has published 02 books, 60 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, 60+ presentations in seminars and conferences, 12 chapters in books and 20+ popular articles (Malayalam & English) Total 160+ Articles. He is identified as one of the most prolific and highly cited Indian contributor in the area of Scientometrics and scholarly publications. His areas of interest include: ICT in libraries, social networking sites, scientometrics, citation analysis, scholarly communication etc. Dr. Sudhier is the Principal Investigator of the DST-NSTMIS major project of the Ministry of S&T, Govt. of India and Project Director of ICSSR Project. Membership in Professional bodies . Life member, Indian Association of Teachers of Library & Information Science (IATLIS) • Life Member, Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Kolkatta • Life Member, Indian Library Association (ILA), New Delhi • Member, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA), Bangalore • Life Member, Madras Library Association (MALA), Chennai • Life Member, Society for the Advancement of LIS (SALIS), Chennai • Life Member, LIS Academy, Bengaluru .Life Member, ILIS, Thiruvananthapuram • Life Member, Kerala Library Association, Thiruvananthapuram Significant Academic Achievements and Honors Based on Google scholar database, his h- Index is 13; Total citations 729 and i-10 Index is 15. Listed in the most prolific Indian authors in Indian Library & Information Science Research indexed by Indian Citation Index (ICI) during 2004-15 (among 2247 Indian authors contributed 2428 papers) [Garg & Sharma, DESIDOC-JLIT, 37 (3), 2017] Identified as one of the most prolific and highly cited Indian authors in the area of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics during 1995-2014 (Total no. of citations 58, Citation per Paper 5.8 & Relative Citation Impact 0.6). [Garg & Tripathi, ALIS-NISCAIR, 64 (01 &03), 2017] Ranked as one of the top authors in the Indian Information Science and scientometrics research output during 2011-2015 based on Indian Science Abstracts (CSIR-NISCAIR) [Soumya Rani & Sudhier, IASLIC Bull., 63 (3), 2018] Ranked as 5th prolific Indian author during 2001-2010in the India’s research performance in LIS [Pattanaik & Yanthan, IJLIN (www.slp.org), 4 (2), 2019]. Awarded President Scout by the Hon. President of India. Best Teacher Award 2021, Madras Library Association, Chennai. Editorial Responsibilities •Editor of KLA Newsletter (official organ of Kerala Library Association) •Faculty Editor- Bibliophile: Newsletter of the DLIS, CUTN •Member, Editorial Advisory Board, College Libraries (Peer reviewed Journal of West Bengal College Libraries Association) Member, Editorial Board- Indian Journal of Library Science& Information Technology (IJLSIT) Member, Editorial Board- Indian Journal of Library Science& Information Technology(IJLSIT) Associate Editor, International Journal of Library & Information Science (IJLIS) Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences (JoALS) Member, Editorial Board, KLA Journal of Information Science & Technology (KJIST) Member, Editorial Board- Journal of Information (Pak Publishing group, Punjab, Pakistan) Associate Editor of International Journal of Library & Information Science (IJLIS) •Reviewer - Current Science, The Electronic Library (Emerald Pub), Library Review (Emerald Pub), Sage Open, COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics & Information Management, Annals of Library & Information Studies (CSIR-NISCAIR); DESIDOC Journal of Library& Information Technology (DRDO); International Journal of Information Dissemination & Technology (MM University), International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology (Korea)and Global Journal of Library & Information Technology (GJLIT). He has organized and chaired numerous conferences, seminars and workshops in the LIS domain and is frequently invited as chairperson and keynote speaker in seminars and conferences, as a resource person (including UGC-HRDCs) and Member, BoS in the University of Kerala and Central University of Tamil Nadu. He is an active academician with various contributions in LIS domain as Author, Reviewer, Editor and Resource Person in many scholarly events and groups. Member of almost all the professional associations in the country and is identified as one of the most prolific and highly cited Indian contributor in the area of scientometrics and scholarly publications. Google Scholar Profile: h-Index -11, Total citations 546, i10 Index- 11.