1National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS), Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110012, India. E-mail: bmgupta1@gmail.com
2Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India. E-mail: anurags@ignou.ac.in
3Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, S.A.S. Nagar, Mohali-140306, Punjab, India. E-mail: visakhi@iisermohali.ac.in
Online published on 22 October, 2013.
The study examined the contribution of twenty agricultural universities to the mainstream scientific literature during 2007-20011 along two distinct, but inter-related dimensions of quantity (number of papers, number of international collaborative papers) and quality of research output (assessed through the citations received) A number of measures are used for inter-field and inter-university comparisons. Inter-field comparisons are made at the level of 10 macro subject fields.
Indian Agricultural Universities, Impact of research, International Collaboration, Inter-field comparisons, Inter-university comparison
