Ranking of Indian Engineering and Technical Institutes based on research: NIT Rourkela at number 20
The following table is from the current science article at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug102009/304.pdf titled “Ranking of Indian Engineering and Technological Institutes for their Research Performance during 1999-2008” by G. Prathap and B. M. Gupta. It appears in Current Science, Vol. 97(3), 2009. It gives the top 30 engineering and technical institutes based on publications from those institutes during 1999-2008. Based on this ranking NIT Rourkela is at number 20.
In the table below: P is the number of papers published, C is the number of citations obtained, ICP is the number of papers through international collaboration, h is the H-index and p is a newly proposed index.
There has been some discussin on these ranking in several blogs. Following are some links to those blog entries.
- http://giridharmadras.blogspot.com/2009/08/rankings-of-iitiisc.html.
- http://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/08/pratap-and-guptas-paper-on-research.html.
- http://donutbekaswami.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-nitk-really-top-engineering-school.html.
- http://donutbekaswami.blogspot.com/2009/08/research-at-nits-can-we-solve-it.html.
- http://rainbow-science.blogspot.com/2009/08/fight-for-rankof-best-indian-institute.html.
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