Resume Personal & ContactName Aparna Basu Affiliation Guest Faculty, South Asian University E-mail aparnabasu.dr@gmail.com Phone +91 11 28083401 +91 9818405134 Education Details1968 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 AreasEvaluation 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 Assignments1970-1973 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) 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
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 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 14th 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
Social Network Analysis and Terrorism
Information Retrieval
Scientometrics and Science Policy
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
Reports
Journal Papers
Mathematical Models in Scientometrics
Science in India
Scientometrics
Fractals and Chaos
Innovation Diffusion and Applications
Brain Drain and Linkages in Science
On Plasma Physics, Remote Sensing, and miscellaneous Book Reviews
Plasma Physics
Remote Sensing: Environmental Applications
Book Reviews
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