A BIBLIOMATRIC ANALYSIS OF DOCTORIAL RESEARCH (A CASE STUDY OF DR. B.A.M. UNIVERSITY, AURANGABAD LIBRARY)
The face of truth has been covered up by a golden pot, I, therefore, beseech you, O sun, to Kindly uncover it so that I may know what true and righteous.” Research is a systematic activity to reveal the truth. All round us, we notice that human advancement, inventions and discoveries are feasible because the researchers take pain to be curious and inquisitive. According to Plutchick R. “Research has its origin in a term which means to go around or to explore… and it is a combination of Re + search” Literally it means search again and again. While Kerlinger says research is a “systematic, controlled, empirical and critical investigation of hypothetical propositions about the presumed relations among natural phenomenon.” However the Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, defines research as “the manipulation of generalizing, extending, correcting or verifying knowledge…”. That means research is a fact finding process through the application of scientific methods.