India’s top 100 institutes have faculty with most Ph.Ds, says NIRF report

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New Delhi: Faculty with doctoral qualifications are mostly concentrated in top 100 institutions in the country, according to the National Institutional Ranking Frameworks (NIRF) 2023 report...

The study said: Data on publications, citations and patents was taken from Scopus (Elsevier Science), Web of Science and Derwent Innovation (Clarivate Analytics)..

The report says: It was observed that faculty with doctoral qualification is concentrated in top 100 institutions, while the remaining institutions have fewer faculty with doctoral degrees..

Similar trends have been observed with research publications and citations as well, with the maximum number of publications and citations coming out only from the top 100 institutions...

Data showed that from 2019 to 2021, the total number of publications from universities were 280,643 of which 69.37% (194,685) were from the top 100 institutes..