It has now slipped several places in the world university rankings
IIT-Kharagpur leads the list with a total of 7,719 research papers in the past five years whereas IIT-Madras has published 6,310 papers. (Photo: DC/File)
Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, which was started 55 years ago with German collaboration as a model institute to produce outstanding technocrats, has now slipped several places in the world university rankings. It ranks fourth among IITs in terms of research papers published in leading journals.
IIT-Kharagpur leads the list with a total of 7,719 research papers in the past five years whereas IIT-Madras has published 6,310 papers.
According to Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, faculty at IIT-Madras has published 1,258 research papers in 2010, 1,351 in 2011, 1,338 in 2012, 1,362 in 2013 and 1,001 so far in 2014. IIT-Bombay that published fewer research articles (1,128) in 2010 but picked up momentum last year with 1,534 publications totalling to 6,347.
If one looks at highly cited researchers ranking released by Thomson Reuters, one could find only the name of Prof.Vinod Kumar Gupta from IIT-Roorkee in the list of IITians. IIT-Madras is also out of JEE-Advanced toppers’ choice when it comes to admission. The first ranking student preferred IIT-Bombay and no student in top 10 preferred IIT-M.
The institute has also slipped 41 ranks in world university rankings from 281 in 2011 to 322 in 2014. Some faculty memebers feel that the institute failed to invest enough in research and development.
( Source : dc )
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