RESEARCH PRORITIES OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA

DATASET : ACADEMIC.DAT ACADEMIC.DIC

Description :33´ 8 matrix

Priority status of eight scientific fields in thirty-three major academic institutions in India.

Idcode : Institutions

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
4. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
5. Delhi University, Delhi
6. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
7. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
8. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
9. Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh
10. Jadavpur University, Calcutta
11. Punjab University, Chandigarh
12. Rajasthan University, Jaipur
13. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
14. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
15. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
16. Osmania University, Hyderabad
17. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
18. Poona University, Puna
19. Calcutta University, Calcutta
20. Madras University, Madras
21. Andhra University, Waltair
22. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur
23. Hyderabad University, Hyderabad
24. Haryana Agriculture University, Hissar
25. Bombay University, Bombay
26. Roorkee University, Roorkee
27. Lucknow University, Lucknow
28. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
29. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
30. Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai
31. Karnatak University, Dharwad
32. Sardar Patel University, Vidyanagar (Gujarat)
33. Allahabad University, Allahabad

Variable Fields

V1 Physics

V2 Chemistry

V3 Life Sciences

V4 Earth and Space

V5 Engineering

V6 Mathmatics

V7 Med. Sciences

V8 Agriculture

Priority status of a field in a given institution is operationalized by

constructing a dichotomous variable coded as

1. if Activity Index > 0

1. otherwise

Source :NAGPAUL, P.S. (1995) Contributions of Indian universities to the mainstream scientific literature: A bibliometric assessment, Scientometrics, 32(1), 11-36.