Abstract:
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka is the leading technical university in Sri Lanka. Carrying
out nationally relevant and high-impact research to expand the boundaries of knowledge
is direted through the mission of University of Moratuwa. Therefore, purpose of this study
is to identify the research productivity of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. A Total
number of 1712 publications authored by 5491 authors with the affliation University of
Moratuwa during the period 1981 – 2017 (inclusive) were derived from Scopus database.
The research method of this study was Scientometric analytical method using Bibexcel
software. Findings of the analysis revealed that the majority of the publications in the
category of conferene proceedings and contributed by multiple authors. Average degree
of collaboration over the study period is 0.9. with collaborative contributors from
countries like United States, Australia etc. UoM publications recorded progressively
increasing degree of collaboration. Relative growth rate as well as doubling time of
publiations fluctuates with positive and negative figures resulting inonsisteny. MerCon –
Moratuwa Research Conference organized by Faculty of Engineering, University of
Moratuwa is listed as most sorted source of dissemination of information. Majority of the
highly produtive authors and highly cited publications are from the Faculty of
Engineering.
