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7.2.1. Comparing Research Publications of Top 100 Institutions vs Rest of the Eligible Institutions in Various
Domains / Categories

Table 10 and Fig. 9 summarises the total number of publications for various domains and categories of India Rankings
2023. The Table provides a comparison of research publications of top 100 institutes with the publications of rest of
the eligible institutions in the same domain / category. It is interesting to note from the first row that 62.48% of the
research publications come from the top 100 institutions in “Overall” category with the remaining 1094 participating
and eligible institutions contributing remaining 37.52% of research publications. A similar conclusion can be drawn

for all other categories except for Colleges. The data seems to follow the famous Pareto’s principle, in the sense that
most of the research publication are attributable to within the top 100 institutions in every category. On the positive
side, it appears that a large number of general degree colleges are active in research and publications activities.
However, there is a significant overlap amongst various categories/disciplines since most of the institutions are
applicant for ranking in multiple categories / domains.

No. of Discipline / Total Publications Publications Top 100 Remain-ing Average No. of
Eligible Categories Number of Top 100 of Inst. Inst. Publications /
Inst. of Institutions Remaining Institute
Publications Institutions
(% of Pubs)
1194 Overall 450987 281780 169207 62.48 37.52 377.71
397 Universities 280643 194685 85958 69.37 30.63 706.91
1239 Engineering 226506 142588 83918 62.95 37.05 182.81
693 Management 5788 4861 927 83.98 16.02 8.35
405 Pharmacy 9698 7215 2483 74.4 25.6 23.95
161 Research Inst. 321085 279052 42033 86.91 13.09 1994.32
1288 Colleges 25466 9561 15905 37.54 62.46 19.77
Table 10: Research Publications of Top 100 Institutions as Compared to the Research Publications of
the Rest of the Eligible Institutions in Various Categories / Domains

Fig. 9: Research Publications of Top 100 Institutions as Compared to the Research Publications of
the Rest of the Eligible Institutions in Various Categories / Domains (in %)

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