Although engineering education at the tertiary level in India is now more than 150 years old, it was only since independence that the IITs have been set up as institutions of national importance with an emphasis on ...

The author carried out a citation-based bibliometric profiling of the journal Current Science. A three-dimensional approach breaks down scholarly performance into three primary components - quantity, quality and consistency. ...

Journals are routinely evaluated by journal impact factors. However, more controversially, these same impact factors are often used to evaluate authors and groups as well. A more meaningful approach will be to use actual ...

Chemistry is the biggest area of research in which India publishes and it is the second biggest for China in recent years. Within this broad research area, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is India’s ...

Comparison of the performance of top Indian higher education institutions using fractionalized and unfractionalized data from Leiden 2014 with those of SIR 2013 data.

We examine the evidence from large bibliometric databases to see if India is on the way to be able to 'market its distinctive expertise in frugal innovation to the world' and to 'establish a research programme on "science ...

We carried out a research performance analysis of leading higher education institutions in Malaysia using bibliometric data from the latest (2014) release of the Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR). We tracked the ...

In this brief communication, we show how a simple 3D bibliometric performance evaluation based on the zynergy-index (Prathap, 2013) can be simplified by the recently introduced 3-class approach (Ye & Leydesdorff, 2013).