Manipal University ranks first among non-government universities in India

By Snehalatha, Udupi
Bellevision Media Network

Manipal, 14 May 2013:  Manipal University is ranked  among the non-government universities in India by a Scopus-based study published by SCImago research group, Spain (http://www.scimago.es/index.php). The total number of documents published by Manipal University is 2, 762. VIT with 1183 is second in the category and BITS is third with 911.

SCImago Research Group, University of Granada, Spain, analyses the institutes based on the publications in Scopus database (for the last 5 years) and rank them as SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR). SIR was started in the year 2009 and today they have 4 reports from 2009 to 2012. SIR 2009 World Ranking was the first report which ranked 2,124 institutions from 84 countries. SIR 2010 was published with additional features such as Regional ranking (RR), Country Ranking (CR) etc., and included 2,833 institutions around the globe.

 

 

 

 

SIR 2011 Global Ranking published report had included more features with the target audience of policymakers, research managers, researchers, media and general public. SIR 2011 Global Ranking includes 3,042 institutions from the world with a unique feature, Specialization Index and Excellence Rate. SIR 2012 Global Ranking, was released last year includes 3,290 institutions from 106 countries.

There are 128 institutions from India, listed among the 3,290 world institutions and only three figure in the top 500. There are 18 institutions with the rank of 1000, 43 in top 2000, 100 in top 3000 and total of 128 among top 3268. The list includes the Government Organizations (GO), Higher Education institutions (HE), Health institutions (HL), Private institutions (PR) and Others (OT).

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) being a group of 37 institutions spread across India tops the list with 21,671 publications. IISc Bangalore is the 2nd with 8,573 and IIT, Kharagpur 3rd with 7,215 publications. These three institutions are among the top 500 global ranking [CSIR World Ranking (WR) 82, Regional Ranking (RR) 17, Country Ranking (CR) 1; IISc Bangalore WR 376, RR 80, CR 1; IIT Kharagpur WR 460, RR 99, CR 3].

Manipal University is ranked 19th overall in India, 271 in Asia region and globally ranked 1118 in publication output.

 In 2010, Manipal University was ranked 55th in India [WR: 2115; RR: 528] in the SIR Global Ranking. In 2011, Manipal University was 36th in the nation, 425th in Asia and 1625th in the world. In in the latest SIR 2012 Global ranking, there has been a marked improvement by Manipal  University being ranked 19th in the country, 271st in Asia and 1118th globally.

Among the institutions of Manipal University the Kasturba Medical College Manipal, has a Scopus h-index of 43, which is very high comparable to many of the Indian universities as per the reports of DST. MCOPS has a Scopus h-index of 36 and MIT has 27.