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3.1. Progress Made During the Year 2016-2017

During the period under report, all experts were requested to update their respective profiles. Nodal

officers were requested to update the profiles of their faculty for their respective institutes. About 3,056
new expert profiles were added into the database and existing profiles were updated with scholarly
articles and academic identities, etc. New features such as Co-author Network, Altmetrics, Citation
Count from SCOPUS were incorporated to enhance the profile display. Virtual machines with
customized VIVO pre-installed was developed for distribution to the participating institutes so as to
promote standard-based distributed Profile Management System. Admin interface was enhanced with

feature for profile import as CSV file that enables import of data received from the Nodal Officer. Figure
10 depicts number of experts in 8 major Web of Science Subject Categories. Figure 11 depicts number
experts and their organisation categories.

Fig. 10: Number of Experts and their Web of Science Subject Categories in VIDWAN Database

Fig. 11: Number Experts and their Organisation Categories in VIDWAN Database

3.2. Features of New Interface of VIDWAN

The features and functionality of the web interface of Vidwan database was enhanced to enrich the user
experience and to make website accessible from different devices. The new interface supports the
following features:

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