Monday, May 29, 2017

Indian varsities have poor research output, says study



Indian varsities have poor research output, says study

Since no proper analytical evaluation is available for a large number of institutions, the researchers wanted to perform a quantitative evaluation of research performance of Indian institutions. Researchers, including Marisha from BHU and Sumit Kumar Banshal from South Asian University in New Delhi, found that the University of Delhi has the highest research output at present, followed by BHU.

New Delhi: All the central universities in India put together have a lesser research output than either of the world's top two ranking varsities - Cambridge and Stanford, according to the latest study that paints a dismal picture of the state of scientific research in the country.

Researchers said that unsuitable research infrastructure, inappropriate funding, lesser incentives for research are some of the reasons behind the poor performance of the Indian institutions.

Scientists evaluated the research performance of 39 central universities in India on various parametrise including total publications, total citations and number of publications with international collaborators.

They compared the parameters with that of the two top ranking world universities, namely University of Cambridge in the UK and Stanford University in the US.

“Recently there have been exercises on the national ranking of institutions and also proposals and draft bills for setting up 10 world class universities in India,” Vivek Kumar Singh, from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh said.

Source | Daily News Analysis | 29 May 2017

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