Background: Institutions, government departments, and healthcare professionals engage in social media because it facilitates reaching a large number of people simultaneously. YouTube provides a platform whereby anyone can upload videos and gain feedback on their content from other users. Many YouTube videos are related to health and science, and many people search YouTube for health-related information. YouTube has been acknowledged as a key public information source in recent crises caused by Zika, H1N1, swine flu, and most recently, COVID-19. Methods: YouTube videos were collected from the YouTube Application Programming Interface (API) using the search terms COVID-19, coronavirus, COVID19, and corona. The search was conducted on April 4 and 5, 2020. The initial investigation found a total of 1084 videos. The second step involved identifying and verifying the videos for their relationship to COVID-19 information and excluding videos that did not relate to COVID-19 or were in a language other than English and Hindi. Results: An analysis of YouTube videos covering COVID-19, uploaded in early 2020, in English and Hindi. The sample comprised 349 videos (n = 334 English). Videos were characterized by contributor, duration, content, and reception (views/likes/dislikes/comments). The majority contained general information, with only 4.01% focusing on symptoms and 11.17% on treatment and outcomes. Further, the majority (n = 229) were short videos of under 10 min duration. Videos provided by government and health care professionals comprised 6.87% and 5.74% % of the sample, respectively. News channels uploaded 71.63% of videos. Conclusions: YouTube may provide a significant resource for disseminating of information on public health issues like outbreaks of viral infections and should be utilized by healthcare agencies for this purpose. However, there is currently no way to determine whether a video has been produced or verified by authorized healthcare professionals. This limitation needs to be addressed so that the vital distribution services offered by platforms like YouTube can be fully utilized for increasing public understanding of healthcare science, particularly during a crisis such as a pandemic.

Previously research was dependent more on print form for disseminating institutional research output, but after the development of digital technologies like Institutional repositories, researchers of every organizations are now in a better position to share their intellectual scholarly research output to the digital world in a fast, easy and convenient way. Institutional repository is one of the model of open access which improves the visibility of an organization globally. This paper aims to analyze the current status of the two countries India and China which are registered in the Open Directory of Open Access Repository (OpenDOAR). During this study, it was found that, 79 repositories are from India and 40 repositories are from China out of 119 repositories. The major achieving content is journals articles 96 (166%) in China 37 (92%) and India 59 (74%). The study also found that most of the open access repositories are institutional repositories from India 67 (85%) and China 39 (97%) followed by disciplinary, aggregating and governmental.

Gender disparity and gender imbalance are globally pervasive in academia. Researchinto gender disparity characterizing gender differences uses metrics such as publicationrates, author contributions, citation rates and research impact. Previous studies arecontradictory in their findings and are limited in scope. As such, the current studyexamines the research contribution of both men and women in Shimla, HimachalPradesh, India. A Scopus search was used to identify all articles published over a 20-year period (1999-2018). For each article in the final sample of 2,881 publications, thegender the first author was identified. Both the number and the growth rate ofpublications by women were lower than those by men. Conversely, the growth incitation rate was higher for women in 2009 and 2016. Gender disparity was found to behighest at the Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research and less severe at the HPGovt. Dental College.

Anthropology is a discipline that deals with the study of human life and culture. The aim of the study is to identify the research performance of anthropology research of 5 selected South Asian studies published between 2003 and 2022. The study uses various scientometrics indicators to analyse the 5371 publications related to anthropology. The study finds that out of 5371 publications, articles (63.4%) and book chapters (19.96%) were predominant. India contributed the highest number of publications (4332). University of Delhi (408) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (308) were the leading contributors among the individual organisations. Nepal was the leading country in terms of international collaboration followed by Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, however low percentages in international collaboration were found from India and Pakistan. The journal ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ was the preferred source of published authors.