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India Rankings National Institutional Ranking Framework
https://www.nirfindia.org/
First time in the history of independent India, the Government of India, took up the initiative to launch a Nationwide Ranking
Framework to rank the educational institutions in the country. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was
launched by Ministry of Human Resource Development on 29th September 2015. Three annual exercises of India Rankings has
been done from 2016 to 2018. The major role is being played by NBA and INFLIBNET under the umbrella of MHRD in ranking of
the institutions. INFLIBNET is entrusted with the responsibility of carrying out the technical work of NIRF including retrieval of
data of publications, citation, patents and top 25% HCP.
NIRF framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country. The methodology draws from the overall
recommendations and broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD to identify the broad parameters
for ranking institutions of Higher Education. The parameters broadly cover “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and
Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.
Introduction
StudentStrengthincludingDoctoralStudents(SS)
Faculty-studentratio(FSR)
CombinedMetricforFacultywithPhDandExperience(FQE)
FinancialResourcesandtheirUtilisation(FRU)Teaching,Learning&
Resources
CombinedMetricforPublications(PU)
CombinedMetricforQualityofPublications(QP)
IPRandPatents:PublishedandGranted(IPR)
FootprintofProjectsandProfessionalPractice(FPPP) ResearchandProfessionalPractice
CombinedMetricforPlacementandHigherStudies(GPH)
MetricforUniversityExaminations(GUE)
MedianSalary(GMS)
MetricforNumberofPh.D.StudentsGraduated(GPHD)GraduationOutcome
PercentageofStudentsfromOtherStates/Countries(RegionDiversity(RD)
PercentageofWomen(WomenDiversity(WD)
EconomicallyandSociallyChallengedStudents(ESCS)
FacilitiesforPhysicallyChallengedStudents(PCS)OutreachandInclusivity
PeerPerception:Employers(PREMP)
PeerPerception:AcademicPeers(PRACD)Perception
Framework & Its Parameters
https://www.nirfindia.org/
Registration
DCS
PublicationData
Feedback
DataVerification/Correction
Perception
Announcement
September - October
Time Line
October - December
February
February
January - March
February - March
April
Pre-RegistrationandRegistration
Activities Process
DataCapturingSystemandHostingof
ContentonInstitutionalWebsite
PublicationDataIntegration
CommentsonDatafromStakeholders
andPublicforDataValidation
DataCorrection(ifany)basedon
FeedbackReceived
DataAnalysisandPeerPerception
Survey
AnnouncementofInstitutionRank
Methodology / Life cycle of NIRF
The Centre has developed a number of web interfaces for NIRF to serve different purposes. Core online system consists of:
Data Capturing System (DCS): This is the backbone of data process mechanism i.e. the purpose of DCS is to computing the
ranking metrics for each parameter and also to check on data consistency. The system allows institutes to provide their data as
per parameters mentioned in framework. DCS also provides a dashboard for nodal officer of each institute as well as admin user
to view their application. Detailed notes are provided for each field to make it easily comprehensible and user friendly for end-
users.
Feedback & Perception Module: NIRF allows Indian citizens to give their feedback on the data submitted by the institutions
through online feedback module and perception on institution from peers through online perception module.
Ranking Model: Also called post-DCS panel, that facilitates data checking by admin and generate ranking.
Two help desks are deployed one each at NBA, New Delhi to resolve general queries and at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar to
take care of technical issues faced by the applicant institutions during the entire execution process of India Rankings.
Online Web Interfaces
Helpdesk
https://www.nirfindia.org/
INFLIBNET Team Members
Prof J P Singh Joorel
Director
Sh Abhishek Kumar
Scientist-C (CS)
Dr Kruti Trivedi
Scientist-B (LS)
Sh Hitesh Solanki
Scientist-B (CS)
Sh Raja V
Scientist-B (CS)
Sh Pallab Pradhan
Scientist-B (LS)
Sh Dharmesh Shah
STA-I (CS)
Methodology
The Centre provids and verify data on publications, citations, top 25% highly cited papers and patents under “Research and Professional Practice” parameter of NIRF using Web of Science, Scopus and Derwent Innovation for patents.
Publication, citations and patents are taken for a period of three years excluding the current year and past one year i.e. for 2018 ranking, the data was considered from 2014 to 2016.
Information and Library Network Centre(An Autonomous Inter-University Centre of UGC)
Infocity, Gandhinagar - 382007, Gujarat, INDIA
List of registered institutes
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Researchand
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Practice
Add / identify name variations of institute in the list
Make Queries on institutions using different Field Tag (OG, OO, AD, in case of WoS) (Affl, Affl Org, Aff-ID, in case of Scopus)
Check and compare (among different field tags)all Queries using Boolean operator
Finalize Query (Overall & Disciplines specific)
Data extraction from citation databases for different indicators of NIRF
Incorporation of research data into the Data Capturing System.
Sources of Data
Web of Science (Data Sources for Publications, Citations and Top25% Highly Cited Papers)
Web of Science is being used as sources for retrieving data on the number of publications, citations and Highly Cited Papers. Nine citation
indices hosted on Web of Science platform are being used for fetching the data namelyi) Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded),
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S),
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH), Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S), Book Citation
Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED).
Scopus (Data Sources for Publications, Citations and Top 25% Highly Cited Papers)
Scopus is also being used as sources for retrieving data on the number of publications, citations and Highly Cited Papers.
Patents: Derwent Innovations of Clarivate Analytics is used to derive the data on Patents.
Technical Helpdesk
+91-79-2326 8247
For General Query
+91-11-4015 9583
Research and Professional Practice