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Department of Information Sciences and Library Management

Academic Profile of Rajesh Kumar Das

Rajesh Kumar Das

About Rajesh Kumar Das

Rajesh Kumar Das is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Information Sciences at the Noakhali Science and Technology University of Bangladesh. Mr. Das did his bachelor and master’s from University of Dhaka. He was awarded the faculty's "Deans Merit List of Honour-2016" for outstanding result from University of Dhaka. His primary research interests focus on the linkages among scientific domains, epistemologies, metascience to address information equity, diversity justice related issues. He has also conducted concurrent research in information behavior, data science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval and scholarly communication. His research has resulted in peer reviewed publications in journals i.e.  JISTaP, IJLIS, AJIST, and conferences.

He is an active member of a range of forums on Information Science and is engaged in serving the information science community both in Bangladesh and internationally through different volunteer and leadership positions. He is currently serving as Newsletter Officer of the ASIS&T SIG-III (2020-21) and Research Editor of The Librarian Times (TLT) since 2016. He is a member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), Bangladesh Association for Librarians Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID). He has been a part of various professional responsibilities e.g., curriculum committee member, mentor, advisor etc. He is also active in organizing conferences, serving as session chair in conferences, ad-hoc reviewer in Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JlSTaP), Informing Science, ASIS&T annual meeting etc.

He especially enjoys teaching a wide range of courses including: Information Retrieval, Knowledge Organization, Media & Communication, Information Ethics, Information Architecture, Research Methodology and Bibliometrics, Informetrics & Webometrics. He incorporates inquiry-based and active-learning methods into his courses, and continually seeks new ways to engage and motivate students in his classroom. His academic profile can be found: https://nstu.edu.bd/faculty-member/rajesh-kumar-das-dau242 .

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Das, R. K., & Islam, M. S. U. (2021). Mapping knowledge structure of artificial intelligence research in Bangladesh based on co-word analysis. International Journal of Information and Knowledge Studies, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.54857/ijiks.v1i1.6
  2. Das, R. K., & Islam, M. S. U. (2021). Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries: A Systematic Review. Library Philosophy and Practice, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/6762/
  3. Das, S., Mondal, P., & Das, R. K. (2021). ICT Based Agricultural Knowledge Transfer of Women Farmers: A Case of Gender Responsiveness from a Developing Country Perspective. Library Philosophy and Practice, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/6496/
  4. Das, R. K. (2019). Mapping Open Access Publishing Trends in Bangladesh: A Study with Reference to Open Access Journals and Repositories. Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology, 9(3)1-7.
  5. Das, R. K. (2019). Revisiting the Concept of Citation and Citation Analysis on the Growth of Science Studies. International Journal of Library and Information Science, 05(2)1-9.
  6. Das, R. K., & Jadab, A. (2017). Patterns of Information Seeking Behavior of Law Students in Digital Environment: A Study. Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 5(1), 15-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2017.5.1.2
  7. Das, R. K., & Das, S. (2017). Examining the Growth Pattern of Indian Journal of Arts: A Bibliometric Analysis from 2013–2016. Indian Journal of Arts, 7(23), 152-158.
  8. Das, S., & Das, R. K. (2017). Assessing the Effectiveness of Information Services: A Case Study of National Agricultural Research System (NARS) Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology, 7(2), 21-27.
  9. Jadab, A., & Das, R. K. (2017). Doctoral Research in Library and Information Science in Bangladesh: An Analysis on Trends and Development. International Journal of Information Studies and Libraries, 2(1), 25- 32.
  10. Das, R. K., & Jadab, A. (2017). Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertation in Library and Information Science in Bangladesh. Journal of Information Science and Technology, 7(2), 31-38.

 

Conference Paper

  1. Das, R. K., & Rahman, R. (2019) Faculty perception, adoption and usage of open access scholarly publishing : Bibliometric analysis from last 10 years in academia. In Digital Transformation for an agile environment, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL), Delhi, 6-8 November, 2019.

 

Refereed Abstracts

  1. Habiba, U., Yesmin, S., Das, R. K., Islam, M. E., & Karim, M. A. (2019). A Trilateral Approach to Plagiarism: Faculty, Librarian and Students engagement in combating Plagiarism and accelerating the achievement of sustainable development goals. In F. Alam (Ed.), I-IKM 2019 Book of Abstracts: Next Generation Information and Knowledge Dissemination to realize the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development (pp. 96-97). Dhaka, Bangladesh: East West University.

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