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We see how Indian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) have fared in the Shanghai Rankings 2018 for 22 subject areas in engineering and 32 subject areas in four science fields. India has a presence in 19 of the 22 subject areas in engineering, but only 13 of the 32 subject areas in the sciences in which there are institutes globally that meet the required Shanghai Rankings threshold for that area. It has no institution which can be counted at this level of size and excellence in three subjects in the Engineering field: Biomedical Engineering, Marine and Ocean Engineering and Remote Sensing. India’s engineering research base is skewed towards hard-core areas like Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. In the four science fields, it has no institution which can be counted in 19 subjects. India’s science research base is mainly skewed towards the natural sciences and mathematics areas. Its performance in the medical sciences field is passable and that in the social and life sciences is very dismal.

Keywords

Engineering, Research Performance, Sciences, Second-Order Indicators, Shanghai Rankings.
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