Panjab University Ranked 9th in Ranking Based on Research Citations

Panjab University (PU)’s position has dropped in Netherlands-based Leiden University Rankings 2017 in the category of the proportion of research papers among the top 10 percent most frequently cited for any institute. The rankings released on May 17 placed PU at 9th rank bringing it down from the 4th rank.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi bagged the top position in the list, followed by IIT Roorkee and Annamalai University. The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were placed 19 and 20 respectively on the list.

Procedure of Rankings:

The rankings were based on the research papers cited from the year 2012 till 2015 in the web of science database among the 902 institutions around the world.

Fractional counting was used for this purpose according to which, collaborative publications were given less weightage than the non-collaborative ones. The citations until the end of the year 2016 were included. Then, these were put together by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The first ranking list was released in 2007.

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Ranking in three categories:

Category 1:

In the 2017 ranking list, Panjab University has 7 percent of its publications among the 10 percent of most-cited publications while PGIMER has 4.5 percent of its publication in this category. In 2016 edition of rankings, PU had 7.4 percent of its research papers falling under this category while PGIMER had 4.4 percent of its publication.

Category 2:

In the category of the proportion of research papers among the 1 percent of most frequently cited publications, Panjab University holds 13th rank with 0.4 percent of its publications under this category. However, IIT Roorkee tops the chart in 2017 followed by Banaras Hindu University (BHU). In 2016 also PU was at the 13^th place under this category.

Category 3:

If the proportion of papers among the 50% of most cited publications is calculated, PU gets the 6th place with 46.1 percent of its publications and PGIMER is placed at 19th rank while IIT Delhi is at the top position in this list. However, Panjab University tops the 2017 list in the country in life sciences.

Ranking through the approach of collaboratively published paper:

Anyway, Panjab University tops in the number of papers published in collaboration with others with 69.1 percent followed by Jadavpur University and Delhi University with 67 percent and 66 percent of its publication respectively. PU was on the top in 2016 as well with 68.4% of its publications under this category.

Further, if the research papers are classified in international collaboration, then Panjab University is at second position while Aligarh Muslim University gets the top place in this category. PU was on the top in the 2016 ranking list.

Panjab University lags behind when it comes to collaborated papers with industry and bags the 14th position in 2017 rankings while Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) tops the chart.

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Rajat Sandhir, professor of PU appreciated the university to be a part of top institutes of the country. He added that despite all odds, the varsity is doing well in research in sciences.

Also, if the fractional counting method is not used, then Panjab University tops in India under the categories of the proportion of papers in the top 10 percent and 50 percent most frequently cited papers. However, it comes at third place in the category of top one percent most cited papers.