RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS AND IMPACT OF RESEARCH OF INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROORKEE, 1993 TO 2001

Abstract

The paper suggests a methodology for studying the quantitative profile of a.research and teaching institute, with a view to get idea about its major research contributions, performance and impact in different fields of S& T: A number of quantitative and qualitative indicators have been used for studying the relative performance of the institute across various subject fields. Concludes that the three subjects, namely mathematics, biology and clinical medicine, although contributing smaller number of papers, secured first three ranks in terms of average normalized impact factor perpaper. They have also done fairly well in terms of percentage of collaborative papers, but faired badly in terms of contributing to high quality papers, with the exception of clinical medicine. These three fields have performed the best in terms of publication effectiveness index.