Research Potential and Competitiveness of Indian Institutes of Technology

a Scientometric assessment

Abstract

This study is aimed to find out the research competitiveness of the top five IITs of India. The study explores the research thrust areas of the top five IITs of India, the total productivity, citation count, subject-specific research, and publication preferences. This study is done to find out the pattern of research and the comparative analysis of the top 5 IITs of India so that the comparative performance can be measured owing to huge investments made for the IITs by the Government of India. This study gives a comparative scientometric assessment of a total of 7602 publications contributed by the five institutions. The study is based on the data
harvested from the Indian Citation Index from 2004 to 2018 using the data comparer functionality. In this study, it's found that IIT Kharagpur has contributed the highest number of research publications followed by IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, and
IIT Bombay. The study found that chemistry is the common preferred subject for all the institutions with a total publication of 716 and it also tops the rank. Highlighting the research potentiality of IITs this study brings forth the original scenario of research
works in those esteemed institutions.