A world ranking of universities that makes sense to me; Indian institutions in that ranking
September 30th, 2010
The ranking is done by an Australian group based on a measure they call RPI (Research Performance Index). The ranking is at http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/rpi.html.
The ranking uses:
- Publications policy:
- periods are between 2000 to 2009 inclusive
- types are restricted to journal and conference articles, and authored and edited books
- citations can be from any source
- Credit policy:
- credit is given to the institution where the work was performed (not the current affiliation of the authors)
- credit is given to all institutions involved
- credit is given to one or more faculties wherever appropriate
The methodology of the ranking is that they divide the university faculty to five groups:
- MDPHS= Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, and Health Sciences
- PNMS= Pure, Natural, and Mathematical Sciences
- ECT= Engineering, Computing, and Technology
- LBAS= Life, Biological and Agricultural Sciences
- AHBSS= Arts, Humanities, Business, and Social Sciences
1. For each group the g-index of the publications are determined using the SCOPUS database. The The g-index is defined as the highest count g of publications, such that taken together, have an average of at least g citations per publication. (L. Egghe, “Theory and Practise of the g-index,” Scientometrics, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 131-152, Jan. 2006.)
2. Then they divide or normalize the g-index for each faculty by that of the highest globally performing faculty
3. Then they average or sum the normalized faculty indices to arrive at a final RPI value for a particular university
Based on this only two Indian Institutions appear in the top 500.
- IIT Kanpur at 444
- IISc Bangalore at 468
They also give the ranking for each of the five groups. Following are Indian institutions in those rankings.
- MDPHS= Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, and Health Sciences http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac1.html
- None from India
- PNMS= Pure, Natural, and Mathematical Sciences http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac2.html
- IIT Kanpur at 222
- IISc Bangalore at 273
- Punjab University at 380
- IIT Madras at 413
- IIT Roorkee at 497
- IIT Kharagpur at 507
- IIT Bombay at 507
- ECT= Engineering, Computing, and Technology http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac3.html
- IIT Kanpur at 104
- IISc Bangalore at 148
- IIT Madras at 230
- IIT Delhi at 258
- IIT Bombay at 341
- IIT Kharagpur at 367
- Jadavpur University at 398
- IIT Roorkee at 413
- LBAS= Life, Biological and Agricultural Sciences http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac4.html
- None from India
- AHBSS= Arts, Humanities, Business, and Social Sciences http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac5.html
- IIT Delhi at 508
To me this ranking makes the most sense of any ranking I have seen as it is based on data, and it basically looks at the quality of faculty in terms of the impact of their publications.
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