SAARC Citation Index: A Proposal for the Tool and Measurement of Scholarly Communication

Abstract

In this paper we explore the feasibility and suitability of the SAARC Citation Index. SAARC Countries have seen an exponential growth of Scholarly Communication across all major disciplines. There is also large number of research journals to disseminate results of research carried out in SAARC Countries. This paper aims to briefly describe a future feasibility, the SAARC Citation Index, which is a based on Citation Database of SAARC Countries based on research journals. The SAARC Citation Index proposed plan to create citation database covers a whole range of disciplines, i.e., Science, Social Science, Humanities, Technologies, Medicine. This paper also identifies similar initiatives in the past, which was failed due to the absence of web technologies and web-based business models.