Aug 18 2015 : The Times of India (Delhi)
UNIV RANKINGS - Indian varsities fail global test
Kounteya Sinha
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A single Indian university has made it to the top 500 university rank ings. However, the lone In dian entry Indian Insti tute of Science in Bangalore, ranks as low as between 301400, according to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (AR WU) released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University .Interestingly in 2003 and 2004, IISc was still In dia's only entry but its rank ings were around 200 which has fallen drastically .
More than 1,200 univer sities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published. When rank ing world universities, AR WU uses key objective indi cators, which are the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science and per capita performance of a university . India fails miserably in almost all counts.
A recent Thomson Reuters study had found just 3.5% of global research out put in 2010 was from India. India's share of world research output in clinical medicine was a paltry 1.9% in 2010, with psychiatry at 0.5%, molecular biology at 2.1% and environmental research at 3.5%. In mathematics, India's share of world output stood at around 2% in 2010, while it was 17% for China.
“India has been the sleeping giant of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore India as an Asian knowledge hub,“ said the report.
More than 1,200 univer sities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published. When rank ing world universities, AR WU uses key objective indi cators, which are the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science and per capita performance of a university . India fails miserably in almost all counts.
A recent Thomson Reuters study had found just 3.5% of global research out put in 2010 was from India. India's share of world research output in clinical medicine was a paltry 1.9% in 2010, with psychiatry at 0.5%, molecular biology at 2.1% and environmental research at 3.5%. In mathematics, India's share of world output stood at around 2% in 2010, while it was 17% for China.
“India has been the sleeping giant of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore India as an Asian knowledge hub,“ said the report.
