Impact Of Nirf On Research Publications: A Study On Top 20 (Ranked) Indian Universities

Intuitively knowledge of any person or society shows the order of its progress similarly good content deserves the good ranking. The India Rankings (IR), known as National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), is the first most popular ranking system in India initiated by Government of India for benchmarking of Indian Institutions on the basis of different parameters. One of the core / major parameters of this ranking system is research outcomes. This paper focused impact of NIRF on research outcomes. Moreover, it also evaluates trends of publications by the Indian Universities. The study investigates the growth of publication in the different subject category as well as impact of growth before and after NIRF. The sample data is considered for 20 universities from the top 25 top universities ranked last three years in NIRF. The data for this study have been collected from the Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic database for the last six years. Basically, three year (2016, 2015, 2014) before the India Rankings and three year (last three years i.e. IR19, IR18, IR17) during the NIRF exercise.