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Ranking of Indian engineering and technological institutes for their research performance during 1999–2008
Ist Teil von
Current science (Bangalore), 2009-08, Vol.97 (3), p.304-306
Ort / Verlag
Current Science Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
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Among the major countries, India has one of the largest infrastructures of engineering and technological institutes (over 2000). It also produces the largest number of engineering and technology graduates (over 300,000) every year. Some of these institutes are very prestigious and even make it to the list of top universities in the world. Only a handful of institutes (IISc and some IITs) among the major Indian engineering and technological institutes, however, account for most of the research output of the country. Majority of the others, however have very meagre research output, which is also reflected in the poor out-turn of Ph Ds (less than a thousand each year) from these institutions. So far, no ranking of all the Indian engineering and technology institutes for their research performance has been undertaken. In this regard, it is to be noted that most of the international ranking schemes are complex exercises and assess for both quantity and quality of scientific research, but use such elitist levels of achievement (number of Nobel Laureates; papers in Nature, Science, etc.) that they cannot be meaningfully applied to the list under scrutiny here. In the present exercise therefore, a proposal is presented for a ranking of research performance of Indian engineering and technological institutes using data from SCOPUS international bibliographical database, using a recently introduced p-index, which can serve as a composite indicator that combines quality with quantity.