Research and higher education scenario in select Indian state universities: an analysis

P  K  Shetty; M  B  Hiremath; M  Murugan and K G  Sreeja

doi:10.17485/ijst/2010/v3i3.30

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Research and higher education scenario in select Indian state universities: an analysis

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2010/v3i3.30

Year: 2010, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 355-361

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Research and higher education scenario in select Indian state universities: an analysis

P. K. Shetty, M. B. Hiremath¹ , M. Murugan and K.G. Sreeja ^*

School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore- 560 012, India;
¹KLES Kidney Foundation, Belgaum- 590010, India
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This article presents results of an analysis of higher education and research scenario in ten state universities of India during 2000 to 2006. Calcutta University ranked first in terms of published research articles, on an average 664 articles in a year in peer reviewed national and international journals. Similarly Madras, Panjab, Rajasthan, Mysore, Gauhati, Pune, Mumbai, Patna and Sikkim Manipal Universities published 600, 582, 538, 328.33, 221, 184.33, 112.5, 47 and 5 articles respectively. The ratio of number of faculty to research publication varied from 1:0.05 to 1:1.9 in the selected universities. University of Madras, Panjab, Rajasthan and Calcutta have ratio more than 1:1. University of Madras received the maximum research funds of 41.46 crore rupees and ranked first among the selected ten universities. Considering the overall performance of universities in our analysis, Calcutta University and Madras University captured the first two places respectively.
Keywords: Indian university, Scientometrics, research, higher education, technometrics, research funding