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QS I GAUGE

Research (RE)

RE1

Citations per faculty

1.   Number of citations per faculty member on Scopus® in the last 5 years, STEM: 5 scaled down to 0, Non-STEM: 3 scaled down to 0, Mixed: 4 scaled down to 0

RE2

Citations per paper

1.   Number of citations per paper on Scopus® in the last 5 years STEM: 6 scaled down to 0, Non-STEM: 2 scaled down to 0, Mixed: 4 scaled down to 0

RE3

Specialised Research Centres

1.   5 points each for-
(i) Number of Research Centres undertaking research on-campus, minimum 2
(ii) Number of international conferences organised, and research reports published by the Research centres in the last 12 months, 2 research reports/conferences per research centre scaled down to 0

RE4

External research funding

1.   As a percentage of revenue in the last 12 months STEM: 5%; Non-STEM: 1%; Mixed: 2.5% (Excluding affiliating institutions’ income) scaled down to 0

RE5

Seed funding

1.   As a percentage of revenue in the last 12 months funded by the institution STEM: 5%; Non-STEM: 1%; Mixed: 2.5% scaled down to 0

RE6

Proposals submitted and accepted

1.   (i) Number of research funding proposals submitted per faculty member during the last 3 years, 1 per 5 faculty members scaled down to 0,
(ii) Ratio of number of approved and active research funding proposals to that of submitted ones during the last 1 year, 25% scaled down to 0%

RE7

In-house indexed Journals

1.   5 points each for-
(i) Number of in-house peer reviewed indexed journals listed in Scopus®/UGC-CARE Journals, at least 2 publications
(ii) Constitution of independent editorial board comprising of external reviewers
(iii) Periodicity of journal publications, at least 2 publications in the last 12 months

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