Aparna Basu

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Name Aparna Basu

Affiliation Guest Faculty, South Asian University

E-mail aparnabasu.dr@gmail.com

Phone +91 11 28083401 +91 9818405134

Education Details

1968 B.Sc. (Physics Hons.) Miranda House, Delhi University, India

1970 M.Sc. (Physics) Delhi University, India (1st rank in 1969)

1973 M.S. (Physics) Cornell University, USA

1986 PhD (Physics) Physical Research Laboratory, Gujarat, India

1992 Diploma in Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, India

Development
Planning and Policy

Research Areas

Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Applications of Multivariate Statistical Techniques, Data Mining, Mathematical Modelling, Scientometrics, Statistical Applications in Bioinformatics, Information Retrieval techniques, Social Network Analysis, Applications to Terrorism

Assignments

1970-1973 Lecturer Miranda House

Delhi University, Delhi 10007

1986-1988 Scientist D Space Applications Centre (ISRO)

Jodhpur Tekra, Ahmedabad

1988-1991 Fellow National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies

Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg (Pusa Gate) New Delhi 110012

1991-1995 Scientist C ---------- " ----------

1995-2001 Scientist E1 ---------- " -----------

2001-2003 Software IBM
Engineer Airport Road, Bangalore

2003-2004 Consultant Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

Old JNU Campus, New Delhi

2004-2008 Fellow G.N. Ramachandran Centre, Annexe

Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
254 Okhla Industrial Estate – Phase 3, New Delhi 110020, India

2010-2014 Emeritus CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS)
Scientist Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, Pusa Gate, New Delhi 110012, India

Research & Work Experience

1970-1973 Teaching Assistant Cornell University, USA (Physics)

1973-1974 Lecturer Miranda House, Delhi University, Delhi (Physics Hons)

1977-1984 Research Scholar Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (Plasma Physics)

1984-1986 Post-Doctoral Fellow --------------"---------------

1986-1988 Scientist D Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad, INDIA

(Pattern recognition in digital satellite data for monitoring

environmental change)

1988-1991 Fellow National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS)

(on deputation New Delhi, INDIA

from ISRO) (Modelling socio-technical systems)

1991-2001 Scientist C /E1 National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS)
New Delhi, INDIA

(Mathematical Modelling, Forecasting and Scientometrics)

2001-2003 Software IBM
Engineer Bangalore, INDIA

(Research and Training in Data Mining and Chaos Theory)

2004-2005 Consultant Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA)

New Delhi, INDIA

(Social Network Analysis applied to data on Terrorism)

2005-2009 Fellow G.N. Ramachandran Centre (Annexe)

Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology
New Delhi,INDIA

(Training students and post-doctoral fellows in statistical

clustering analysis and network analysis)

2010- 2014 Emeritus CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS)
Scientist New Delhi, INDIA

(Scientometric analysis of scientific output of Indian diaspora)

2016- Guest Faculty South Asian University, Akbar Bhavan, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110021, India

(Teaching Information Retrieval; Research in Scientometrics)

Funded Projects (1988-2014)

Principal Investigator

2010-2014 Scientometric Mapping of the Indian Diaspora in Science

(Funded by Extra Mural Division, CSIR)

1990-2001 National Mapping of Science (Funded by NISSAT, DSIR)

Bibliometric Indicators of Indian Science (Funded by NISSAT, DSIR)

Market Forecasting for Audio Products (Funded by Dept. of Electronics and DSIR)

Team Member

1988-1992 Linkages in Research, Academia and Industry (CSIR)

A sociological Study of Brain Drain in India

Professional Memberships

Board Member, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Regional Chair for India and Middle East, ISSI2009 - ISSI2009 conference, Brazil
Life Member, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, (www.issi-society.info)
Formerly Regional Editor - Asia Region, Newsletter for the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics(2006-2008)
Member, COLLNET ( www.collnet.de)
Member, International Program Committee- Asian Region, International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, since 1993 (Berlin 1993, Chicago, 1995., Israel, 1997; Mexico, 1999; Sydney, 2001, Beijing 2003, Spain 2007)
Member, International Program Committee, Eighth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators: Katholiek University, Leuven 2006
Member, Scientific Committee, International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Science and Technology, and Second Collnet Meeting, New Delhi, Feb 21-25, 2001
Member, International Program Committee, Second Berlin Workshop on Scientometrics and Informetrics/Collaboration in Science and in Technology, Free University, Berlin, Germany, Sept 1-4, 2000
Member, International Program Committee, Sixth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators: Assessment and Monitoring of Scientific and Technological Developments, Leiden, The Netherlands, May 24-27, 2000
Reviewed papers for Journals-Research Evaluation, Scientometrics, Information Processing and Management, PLOS One, Science and Public Policy, Frontiers Research Metrics and Analytics, SRELS
Member, Editorial Board, Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, Taru Publishers, New Delhi
Review Editor, Frontiers Journal of Research Metrics and Analytics

Awards

1965 National Science Talent Scholarship

1970 Science Exhibition Prize of Delhi University (for 1st rank in class of 1969)

1996 Citation Day Award, Institute of Scientific Information, ISI, USA

For best paper,later published as ‘Science Publication Indicators for India: Questions of

Interpretation’, in Scientometrics, 44: 347-360

Recent Publications and Conference Presentations (2009- ) - papers appended below

Indian Diaspora in Science

1. Basu, Aparna (2013) Some differences in research publications of Indian scientists in India and the diaspora (1986–2010)

Scientometrics, 94, 1007-1019

2. Basu Aparna, Roe P and Lewison G (2012) The Indian diaspora in cancer research: A bibliometric assessment for Canada and the USA.

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Montreal; eds. Archambault E, Gingras Y and

Lariviere V. vol 1, pp 110-120. http://www.sticonference.org/index.php?page=proc.

3. Basu, Aparna, Mapping the Indian diaspora in science: A preliminary exercise, Delhi

4. Basu, Aparna (2013) A comparison of international collaboration by Indian scientists and the diaspora: Countries and Institutions, accepted or the 9th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics and 14th COLLNET Meeting,Tartu, Estonia, August 15-17

Altmetrics

1. Banshal, Sumit K., Aparna Basu, Vivek K. Singh, Pranab K. Muhuri (2018) Scientific Attention vs Public Attention: A comparison of Top Cited Papers and Top Papers by Altmetric Score, in Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and Scholarly Information Management (AROSIM 2018) NTU, Singapore, January 26th 2018

(http://www.altmetrics.ntuchess.com/AROSIM2018)

Scientometrics and Social Networks

1. Banshal, S. K., Singh, V. K., Basu, A., & Muhuri, P. K. (2017). Research performance of Indian Institutes of Technology.

CURRENT SCIENCE, 112(5), 923-932

2. Aparna Basu (2017) Gene Ontology, Term Co-occurrence and Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Analysis,

First International Summer Institute on Network Physiology (ISINP); Lake Como School of Advanced Studies,

Italy, 24 July –29 July 2017 (Poster accepted)

3. A Basu, SK Banshal, K Singhal, VK Singh (2016) Designing a Composite Index for research performance evaluation at the national or regional level: ranking Central Universities in India, Scientometrics 107 (3), 1171-1193; Erratum: 108(3), 1695-1697

4. Basu, A., Marisha, Vivek Singh (2016) Migration of highly skilled workers from India: What is their contribution to global scientific research? Presented in International Conference on Migration, Diaspora and Development, Feb 20-21, New Delhi (To be published)

5. Basu, Aparna (2016) What does the Indian diaspora publish? Quantitative studies on research publications in journals, Presented in Workshop on Quantitative Studies of Growth, Diversification and Globalization of S& T” , Jan 8, Delhi University South Campus, New Delhi

6. Aparna Basu, Suman Ray, Frizo Janssens (2015) An Investigation of the Environment of Schizophrenia Genes Using Multi-dimensional Scaling, , IV '15 Proceedings of the 2015 19th International Conference on Information Visualisation, Pages 578-579 , July 22 - 24, 2015 , IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA ©2015, ISBN: 978-1-4673-7568-9 ; doi>10.1109/iV.2015.103

7. Basu, Aparna , Sohom Ghosh, Partha Basuchowdhuri (2015) Scientometric Analysis of Computer Science Publications from the DBLP Database, Accepted as Poster in Atlanta Conference in Science and Innovation Policy, Atlanta USA, !5-17 September (unpublished)

8. Ashraf Uddin, Aparna Basu and Vivek K. Singh (2015) Collaboration and Funding Characteristics of research papers on Swine Flu, Accepted as Poster in GTM, Atlanta* (unpublished)

9. Ashraf Uddin, Aparna Basu and Vivek K. Singh (2015) Performance measurement in higher education and rankings, Accepted as paper in Research Organizations under Scrutiny: New indicators and analytical results, 20th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Lugano, 2nd – 4th September 2015*(unpublished)

10. Basu, Aparna, Nobuko Miyairi (2015) Sir C.V. Raman, India’s Nobel Laureate in Physics: Citations to his Work, Presented in COLLNET 2015, New Delhi, Nov 26-28 (unpublished)

11. Ghosh, Sohom, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Aparna Basu, (2015) Emergence of Collaboration in 60 years of Computer Science, COLLNET 2015, New Delhi, Nov 26-28 (Poster)(unpublished)

12. Basu, Aparna (2015) SCIENTOMETRICS, presented in Workshop on Accelerating Collaboration and Science through Connective Computation, Chicago University Centre, New Delhi, 10-11 March https://indico.cern.ch/event/378261/session/1/contribution/21 (unpublished)

13. Basu, A, Ashraf Uddin, Vivek Singh (2015) Test of the Random Hierarchical model of Bradford's Law using word-frequency data from the Gutenberg project, Poster in ECONOPHYS 2015 Workshop on Econophysics and Sociophysics, JNU and Delhi University, Dec 27-30 2015 (unpublished)

14. Basu, Aparna (2014) A comparison of international collaboration by Indian scientists and the diaspora output: Country and Institutions, in COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, June 2014.

15. Basu, Aparna (2014) The Albuquerque model and efficiency indicators in national scientific productivity with respect to manpower and unding in science, Scientometrics, March, 2014, DOI:10.1007/s11192-014-1254-2

16. Basu, Aparna (2014) Social Network Analysis: A methodology for studying terrorism, in Social Networking: Mining, Visualization and Security, Panda, M. Behuri, S., Wang, G.N. (Eds.) Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer, Volume 65, 2014, pp 215-242

17. Basu, Aparna (2013) Some differences in research publications of Indian scientists in India and the diaspora (1986– 2010) Scientometrics, 94, 1007-1019

18. Basu, Aparna (2013) Efficiencies in National Scientific Productivity in terms of Manpower and Funding in Science, in Proceedings of the 14th International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) Conference, Vienna, July 15-19, 2013 (http://www.issi2013.org/Images/ISSI_Proceedings_Volume_II.pdf)

19. Basu, Aparna (2013) The Context of Scientometric Evaluation. In B. D. Kumbar et al. (Eds.). A Scientometric Approach to Research Assessment, Evaluation and Performance of Indian Universities, Dharwad, DLISc, Karnataka University, 28th – 29th December 2012: (pp. 117-130)

20. Basu, Aparna. (2013) World University Ranking’. SRELS Journal of Information Management. Vol. 50, No. 5. October 2013. p. 679- 690

21. Basu, Aparna. (2013) World University Ranking in Scientometrics: Collection of Articles Edited by I K Ravichandra Rao and A Neelameghan. Ess Ess Publications. New Delhi. 2013. Published for the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science.

Prior to 2012

1. Basu, Aparna and Ronald Wagner Dobler (2012) ‘Cognitive mobility’ or migration of authors between fields used in mapping a network of

mathematics, Scientometrics, 91, pp 353-368

2. Basu, Aparna (2012) The Context of Scientometric Evaluation, Keynote Address in Seminar on Scientometric Evaluation of Universities,

Karnataka University, Dharwar, 28-29 Dec, 2012. In Dr. B. D. Kumbar et al. (Eds.).

A Scientometric Approach to Research Assessment, Evaluation and Performance of Indian Universities, pp 117-130.2012

3. Basu, Aparna (2012) World University Rankings, invited talk in Seminar on Scientometric Evaluation of Universities, Karnataka

University, Dharwar, 28-29 Dec, 2012

4. Basu, Aparna (2012) Basics of Scientometrics and Applications to Policy, Invited talk at Centre for Studies in science policy,

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Oct. 3, 2012

5. Basu, Aparna (2012) Interpretation of Metrics/Indicators and effect on policy options, National Workshop on Using Different Metrics for Assessing Research Productivity Feb 16-17, Indian Statistical Institute (Powerpoint)

6. Basu, Aparna (2009) Mapping the network of mathematics using 'cognitive mobility' or migration of authors between fields as an index,

12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2009, 14-17 July, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Powerpoint)

7. Basu, Aparna (2010) Does a country’s scientific ‘productivity’ depend critically on the number of

country journals indexed?, Scientometrics,82, pp 507-516
8. Basu, Aparna (2013) Efficiencies in National Scientific Productivity in terms of Manpower and Funding in Science,

               in Proceedings of the 14^th International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 15-19, 2013
                    http://www.issi2013.org/Images/ISSI_Proceedings_Volume_II.pdf

Social Network Analysis & Terrorism

1. Basu, Aparna (2013) Social Network Analysis: Applications to Terrorism, invited talk in Workshop on

Complex and Social Networks, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, Jan 24-25, 2013

2. Basu, Aparna (-) Network of Terrorist Organizations in India: Using Multidimensional Scaling to

Identify Ideological, Ethnic and Regional Clusters, talk at India Research Labs, IBM, New Delhi

3. Basu, Aparna (2009) Network Analysis of Terrorist Organizations in India: Ideological, Ethnic and

Regional Clusters & Key Players, panel discussion, talk at Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi

Ethics

1. Aparna Basu, Defining ethical behaviour in a 'collective' scientific context, talk in Workshop on Academic

Ethics, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, July 15-16, 2011

2. Aparna Basu, Ethics and Science, Lecture at NISTADS, New Delhi, July 26, 2011

Publications & Conference Presentations (2002-2008)

Life Sciences

Bhupesh Taneja, Suchir, Aparna Basu and S.K.Brahmachari, PepCluster: A web-tool to annotate bacterial proteins by consensus & core invariant peptide signatures, Poster, HGM2008, Hyderabad, Oct 26-30 2008.
Aparna Basu and Samir K. Brahmachari, Using clusters of short invariant peptides in PepCluster to explore protein function, Poster, HGM2008, Hyderabad, Oct 26-30 2008.
Bio-Suite: A comprehensive bioinformatics software package (A Unique Industry- Academia Collaboration) as part contributor with the NIMITLI BioSuite Team, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 92, NO. 1, 10 January 2007.
Biotechnology in India (unpublished) Report prepared for the Observer Research Foundation 2006.

Social Network Analysis and Terrorism

Basu Aparna (2007) Network of Terrorist Organizations in India: Using Multidimensional Scaling to identify ideological, ethnic and regional clusters, UK Social Network Conference, Queen Mary College, University of London, July 13-14, 2007.
Basu Aparna (2005) Social Network Analysis of Terrorist Organizations in India, paper accepted for presentation at the North American Association for Computational, Organizational and Social Science (NAACSOS 2005), Notre Dame, June 2005. www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2005/2005.../Basu.pdf
Basu, Aparna and Sudhir Saxena (2004) Network Analysis of Terrorist Organizations in India: An Analysis of Terrorist Outfits in Jammu and Kashmir, in International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 5th COLLNET Meeting, Roorkee, India, March 5-8, 2004.
Saxena, Sudhir, K. Santhanam, Aparna Basu (2004) Application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to Terrorist Networks in Jammu & Kashmir, Strategic Analysis Vol.28 No.1, Jan-Mar (pp 84-101) http://www.idsa-india.org/SA-2004.HTM.
Apana Basu and P.S. Nagpaul, Scientific Collaboration among Geographical states in India: A study of Co-authorship Networks using Blockmodels (1990-94), presented in Applications of Social Network Analysis – ASNA2008, 12-13 September 2008, University of Zurich.

Information Retrieval

Basu Aparna and G. Lewison (2005) Going beyond journal classification for evaluation of research outputs: A case study of global astronomy and astrophysics research, (Aslib Proceedings).
Lewison, G and Basu, A. (2001) Evaluation of astronomy and astrophysics research output using a title-word search in place of journal classification. Paper presented at the Eighth ISSI conference, Sydney, Australia, unpublished, (Powerpoint).

Scientometrics and Science Policy

Basu Aparna (2008) Mapping the Indian Diaspora in Science: A preliminary Exercise, 11th ICTPI Conference on Frontiers of Knowledge and Innovation: Blending emerging Technologies with Inclusive Development, Dec 1-3, 2008, New Delhi
Basu, Aparna and Nobuko Miyairi (2008) Discover the Great Achievment of Indian science in the 20th Century, IASLIC Conference, Kolkata, 2008
Basu Aparna (2008) Does a country’s scientific ‘productivity’ depend critically on the number of country journals indexed? Presented at STI2008, 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Excellence and Emergence – A new Challenge for the Combination of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, Vienna (17th–20th Sep 2008).
Basu Aparna (2006) Visualization of collaboration patterns of scientists of Indian origin publishing from abroad in Genomics and Bioinformatics, Eighth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators: Katholiek University, Leuven (Sep 7-9, 2006).
Basu Aparna (2004) Country Indicators of Excellence in Science based on ISI’s ‘highly cited researchers’, Poster, 8th International Conference on S&T Indicators, Leiden, Netherlands.
Basu Aparna (2006) Using ISI’s ‘highly cited researchers’ to obtain a country level indicator of citation excellence, Scientometrics, Vol. 68 (3) pp 361-375, presented in the ISSI Conference, Stockholm, July 2005
Basu Aparna and Grant Lewison (2006) Visualization of a Scientific Community of Indian origin in the US: A case study of Bioinformatics and Genomics, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting,10-12 May, LORIA-INIST, Nancy, France.
Basu, Aparna (2007) Scientific productivity and citation of scientific papers... where do we stand?, Current Science, 93 (6), pp 750-751

Mathematical Modelling

1. Basu Aparna (2007) Connection between the Hirsch Index and the Random Hierarchical Model, ISSI

Newsletter, 3(2) June 2007, pp 24-27

Book Review

1. Basu, Aparna (2005) Global Brain by Howard Bloom, in ISSI Newsletter 1(4) pp 11-14, Dec 2005

List of Publications (Till 2001)

On Mathematical Models, Indian Science, Scientometrics, Innovation Diffusion and Applications, Fractals and Chaos, Brain Drain and Linkages in Science 1988-2001

Book/Edited Volume

Emerging Trends in Scientometrics (1999) Editors: Nagpaul P.S.; Garg K.C.; Gupta B.M.; Bhattacharyya S.; Basu A.; Sharma P.; Kumar S., Allied Publishers
Scientific Communities and Brain Drain (1998 ) Mahanti, S.; Krishna, V.V.; Haribabu, E.*; Jairath, V.K.*; Basu, A. Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi

Reports

Basu, Aparna; Nagpaul, P.S. (March 1998) ‘National Mapping of Science: A bibliometric assessment of India’s Scientific Publications based on Science Citation Index (1990 & 1994)’, NISTADS REPORT: #REP-248/98, submitted to NISSAT
Basu, Aparna; (Jan 1999 & 2000) et al, ‘Scientific Productivity, where do we stand?’, Brief reports on Indian science based on bibliometric indicators, prepared for Indian Science Congress, Chennai, Jan 1999 and Pune, Jan 2000 (reprinted in Information Today and Tommorrow, 1999)

Journal Papers

Mathematical Models in Scientometrics

Basu, Aparna (2014) The Albuquerque model and efficiency indicators in national scientific productivity with respectto manpower and funding in science, Scientometrics, DOI 10.1007/s11192-014-1254-2
Basu, Aparna (1992) 'On the theoretical foundations of Bradford's law' INFORMETRICS, Proceedings of the International conference on Informetrics, ISSI 91: 51-69, ed. I.K.Ravichandra Rao, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science. Reprinted in International Information, Communication, Education, Sep. 1998, 17(2): 185-195
Basu, Aparna (1992) 'Hierarchical distributions and Bradford's law', Journal of American Society for Information Science 43(7):494 -500
Basu, Aparna (1995) 'Concentration Measures in Random Hierarchical Distributions’, JISSI, The International Journal of Scientometrics and Informetrics, Vol. 1, June 2, 1995
Basu, Aparna, (1995) ‘Models of Bradford’s Law’ as the solutions of differential equations’, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Learned Information Inc., Chicago, 1995

Science in India

Basu, Aparna (1999) ‘Are Indian Scientist’s losing in the world publishing race? A refutation’, in Emerging trends in Scientometrics, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, Eds. P.S. Nagpaul, et al
Basu, Aparna (1999) ‘Science Publication Indicators for India: Questions of Interpretation’, Scientometrics, 44: 347-360
Basu, Aparna (2000) ‘International collaboration in Indian scientific papers’, Scientometrics, 48: 381-402
Basu, Aparna (2001) Science Technology and Development Indicators: A comparison between India and Asian Countries, Research Evaluation, 10(1)
Basu, Aparna; Ritu Aggarwal (2001) ‘International collaboration in science in India and its impact on institutional performance’, Scientometrics 52(3), pp 379-394

Scientometrics

Basu, Aparna; Garg K.C. (June-September 1996) ‘Scientometrics/Bibliometrics in India: An Overview of Studies During 1970-1994’, JISSI, The International Journal of Scientometrics and Informetrics, 2(2-3)
Basu, Aparna; Garg K.C. (1999) ‘Changing Trends in Scientometrics/bibliometrics in India’, in Emerging trends in Scientometrics, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, Eds. Nagpaul, P.S. et al.

Fractals and Chaos

Basu, Aparna (1990) 'Fractals - A new geometry of nature' Science Reporter, 27(5): 9-18
Basu, Aparna; Kabre M. (1992) 'Fractals and critical information susceptibility in a simulation of spatial diffusion of innovations' Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 51: 251 -256
Basu, Aparna (1993) 'Innovation Diffusion as a Cybernetic Process', Proceedings of the International Congress of Systems & Cybernetics, ICCS 93, eds. A. Ghoshal and P.N. Moorthy, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi

Innovation Diffusion and Applications

Sharma L.; Bhargava S.C*.; Basu A. (1993) 'A new model of technology diffusion' Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 52: 151-158
Basu, Aparna; Sharma L. (1993) ‘Forecasting growth in the Indian Computer industry- A firm level analysis’, Journal of Sciectific and Industrial Research, 52: 151-158
Basu, Aparna; Bhargava S.C.*; Jain, Ashok; Mohan, S.; Sharma, Lalita; Sharma, Praveen; Kumar, Suresh. (Sep, 1995) ‘Audio Systems in the Indian Market: Demand and Technology Forecasts’, Electronics Information and Planning
Basu, Aparna; Mohan, S.; Bhargava, S. C.*, (1995) ‘Audio Systems in the Indian Market : Demand and Technology Forecasts’ - Report submitted to Dept. of Electronics

Brain Drain and Linkages in Science

Jain, Ashok; Abrol, Dinesh; Wahid, A.; Kumar, P.V.S.; Basu, Aparna et. al (Sep 1989) ‘A Study on Linkages of Research Institutions with Academic Institutions & Industrial Organisations: NISTADS-REP-72/89’, submitted to Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi

On Plasma Physics, Remote Sensing, and miscellaneous Book Reviews

Plasma Physics

Basu, Aparna; Das*, A.C. Enhanced Scintillations Associated with High Speed Streams in the Solar Wind’, (1982), Journal of Geophysical Research, 87(A3): 1688-1690
Basu, Aparna; Sharma, A.S.*; Das*, A.C. (1985) ‘Spectrum of Turbulent Ion Acoustic Waves in a Magnetic Field’, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 27 (4): 433-445
Basu, Aparna (1984) ‘The Spectrum of Ion Acoustic Plasma Turbulence’, Ph.D. Thesis, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, (unpublished, submitted to Gujarat University)

Remote Sensing: Environmental Applications

Narayana, S.; Garg, K.C.; Basu, A. (1989) ‘Change detection in Kudremukh iron ore mining area using multi-date Landsat MSS digital data, Scientific note: RSAM/SAC/ENVN/01/89’, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad

Book Reviews

Basu, Aparna; Kasturi, Kamu. ‘Reminiscences about a Great Physicist - Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac’, edited by Behram N. Kursunoglu and Eugene P Wigner (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK) in Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 277
Basu, Aparna (1999) ‘Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers’, Oxford University Press, New York, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 5: 647-650
Basu, Aparna (1989) ‘The Art of the Soluble' Book Review, Numerical Recipes, in JSIR’ 48:402-403