An Analysis of NIRF ranked Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) Profiles: with Special Reference to Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS)

Abstract

Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS) which is developed by the Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) in collaboration with Central University of Punjab, Bathinda for higher learning and research institutions to showcase their research activities to the scholarly community in worldwide. The data were retrieved from National Institutional Ranking Framework (https://www.nirfindia.org/Home) home page and Indian Research Information Network System (http://irins.org/irins/) of 17 NIRF ranked Indian Institute of Technology (IIT’s) instances for this study. The objectives of the article is to analyze the NIRF ranked IIT’s, faculty members and their publications, department and its publications with citations and impact. It is found that “Indian Institute of Technology Madras” has highest 85.31 score received from NIRF. The “Indian Institute of Technology Bombay” has highest 690 (12.48%) number of faculty members. The “Indian Institute of Technology Bombay” has received 452743 (14.18%) highest citations from Scopus and 381731 (13.70%) citations from Cross Ref. It is further found that “Prof Prafulla Kumar Behera”, Professor (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) has published 1255 (16.58%) articles with 104 h-index and he has received 40931 (18.96%) citations from Crossref and 56029 (20.04%) citations from Scopus.