ICI Ranking: Manipur University among top ten
By Dr.Chinglen Maisnam
Higher Education has now become increasingly quantified via standardized testing, as universities and departments are ranked by performance and productivity. The Indian Citation Index (ICI) compiled by India-based non-profit group M/s DIVA ENTERPRISES Pvt.rank 40 Central Universities in India based on their research productivities. The report period is 2004 onward. According to the report, Delhi University tops the list. Indian Maritime University ranks the lowest in the Article Count Index which is one of the measures of research productivity. Manipur University ranked higher than the JNU on the list of the Citation Index 2014. The top 10 performers on Articles Count are Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University, University of Alahabad, Aligarh Muslim University, Dr.HarisinghGour University, H.N. BahugunaGarhwal University, Manipur University, Jawarhalal Nehru University, JamiaMiliaIslamia and North Eastern Hill University. The Central Universities of Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Haryana, Karnataka and Gujarat are among the worst performers in the list. Dr.HarisinghGour University tops the Citation received category. Manipur University ranks 8th in this category. JNU, JamiaMiliaIslamia and NEHU are behind Manipur University in terms of both Articles count and Citation received.
The centers of higher learning in India have been producing good amount of new knowledge .But, there is limited tool for evaluation and measurement of its knowledge. At international level few tools/databases are available but coverage of Indian knowledge contents particularly published in local national journals are negligible. Mr.Prakash Chand, Ex Scientist NISCAIR, CSIR and M/s DIVA ENTERPRISES Pvt. Ltd. with a view to address this long felt need have developed and brought out multidisciplinary Indian Citation Index (ICI) by scanning 1000 journals of Indian origin. Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown abstracts and citation database, with multidisciplinary objective information/knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine basically to perform search and evaluation for researchers, policy makers, decision makers etc. ICI database is a powerful tool that let people search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to turns raw data/information into the powerful knowledge they need. ICI database is an abstracts and citation database intended to measure and perform two basic functions, general literature search and evaluation using citations similar to international databases. A database in general is a collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed for various purposes, managed, and updated regularly. Citations symbolize the association of R&D ideas. The references that researchers cite in their papers make explicit links between their current research and prior work in the literature archive. Indian Citation Index (ICI) use intellectual links by listing both cited and citing works. Like other indexes, this enables one to move back in time to previously published papers. But uniquely one can also look forward in time to determine who has subsequently cited an earlier piece of research.
The tremendous strides made by the Manipur University during the study periods have been recognised, by ICI-a multi-disciplinary research platform, as being one of the best performers in the field of research productivity. Manipur University was in deep crisis during the pre-conversion periods (state university). However, the post conversion periods have seen a transformation of the University from a multipronged deficit situation to an increasingly leading scholastic player. Manipur University has now transformed from an impoverished public institution into a moderately flourishing public institution in several aspects. I believe there will be more positive changes in the future.
Source: Manipur Times
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