Madhan is a librarian by profession and he has more than 20 years experience in research and academic librarianship.  His research interests are scientometrics, and open access to scholarly publications.  His other interests are open data, open educational resources and library technologies.

Research papers:

Muthu Madhan, Subbiah Gunasekaran, Rani M T, Subbiah Arunachalam, T A Abinandanan, (2020) Chemistry research in India in a global perspective- A scientometrics profile, Preprint Arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03093

Muthu Madhan, Ricky Cheng, 2019, Directory of Open Educational Resources (DOER): A discovery service framework to provide structured access to OERs, Pan Commonwealth Forum 19, Edinburugh  http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3236 

Muthu Madhan, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachlam (2018), Evaluation of research: Are we doing it right in India? International Journal of Medical Ethics, < https://ijme.in/articles/evaluation-of-research-in-india-are-we-doing-it-right/> 

Francis Jayakanth and Muthu Madhan (2017), Open Access for Engineers and Engineering, IEEE Newsletter < http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/icnl/17q4/p53-p57.pdf> 

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan (2017), Chemistry research in India: Making progress, but not rapidly. Current Science 112 (7) < http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/07/1330.pdf > 

Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam (2017), Should Indian researchers pay to publish their papers? Current Science 112 (4) http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/04/0703.pdf  

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan (2016), Adopting ORCID as a unique identifier will benefit all involved in scholarly communication, National Medical Journal of India, 29(4) <http://www.nmji.in/temp/NatlMedJIndia294227-2137207_055612.pdf>

Muthu Madhan and Subbiah Arunachalam (2011), Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings, Current Science, 100(9), P 1297-1306 http://oar.icrisat.org/1/

Muthu Madhan, Chandrasekar, G and Subbiah Arunachalam (2010), Highly cited papers from India and China, Current Science, 99(6), P 738 – 749 http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace/handle/2080/1293

Reports:

Muthu Madhan (2015), Quantitative features of Indian School of Business (ISB) research output – A bibliometric analysis using Scopus.  Report commissioned by Learning Resource Centre, ISB. 

 Muthu Madhan (2014), A Global View of Open Access: A perspective on OA in India, Tony Hey on eScience Blog https://tonyhey.net/2014/06/03/a-global-view-of-open-access-part-6/ 

Madhan, M and Siva Shankar, K (2013) Mapping world chickpea research published during 2001-2010. Project Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. http://oar.icrisat.org/7947/ 

Madhan, M and Siva Shankar, K (2013) Mapping world pearl millet research published during 2001-2010. Project Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. http://oar.icrisat.org/7945/ 

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan (2012), Open Access to scholarly literature in India – Report commissioned by Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore http://cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/open-access-to-scholarly-literature

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan, (2010), Scientometric profile of Dr V Mohan, an Indian Diabetalogist, Report Commissioned by Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Chennai

Interview:

 “Muthu Madhan: One nation one subscription is an elusive goal” Open interview. December 12, 2020. https://openinterview.org/2020/12/12/muthu-madhan-one-nation-one-subscription-is-an-elusive-goal/