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Table 14 and Fig. 13 compares number of research publications in world, India and Eligible Institutions for the years
applicable for India Rankings 2020 to 2023. The total number of publications in the World registered an increase of
3.80% and 4.42% in the years corresponding to India Rankings 2022 and India Rankings 2023 respectively. In
comparison, number of research publications of India for the corresponding period registered an increase of 8.57%
and 10.39% respectively in Overall category.

Ranking Year World India NIRF Eligible Institutions

India Ranking 2021 9853936 4 29025 324169
India Ranking 2022 1 0228183 4 65804 379032
India Ranking 2023 1 0680401 5 14196 450987

% Increase 2021 to 2022 3.80 8.57 16.92
% Increase 2022 to 2023 4.42 10.39 18.98

Table 14: Comparative Research Publications of World, India and Eligible Institutions in Overall Category

Fig. 13: Comparative Research Publications of World, India and Eligible Institutions in Overall Category

7.2.5. India’s Total Publications Vs Publications of Eligible Institutions in Engineering

Table 15 and Fig. 14 indicate that a majority of the productive engineering institutes are part of the India Rankings
2023 that accounts for 99.98% of total publications. This demonstrates the high-quality participation and aspiration of
quality institutions for the NIRF ranks, which is very gratifying. It is presumed that 0.02% research that is
unrepresented here may belong to research Labs, belonging to DAE system, ISRO and private research labs who also
publish significantly in Engineering, and do not form part of the mainstream academic system in India.

It may, however, be noted that data on publications is cumulative sum of research publications of all eligible institutions

in Engineering discipline. As such, research articles authored by participating and eligible institutions in collaboration
of each other were counted multiple times depending upon number of collaborative institutions participating in India

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