Measuring Research-Strength of an Institute

Like the available measures on 'relative research-strength' of any individual researcher or of any journal (such as 'impact-factor'), research community also look with interest for some 'relative score/ position' of Universities, Institutes and research organizations. This is computed by taking 'total research publications of the institute/ university' into consideration. There are many initiatives/ agencies doing this job. We shall present here the scores of 'Research-Gate' and the relative position of the leading institutes in India and Asia.

The research-network, ResearchGate [https://www.researchgate.net] is fast catching up the attention of most of the researchers of the world, today. It is the 'the social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions and find collaborators', that was co-founded by Ijad Madisch1 in 2008. The company is now based in Berlin and has offices in Cambridge. This startup was developed as a communication and crowd sourcing platform by which scientists can share and publish their research. "About 56 percent of research papers published in 2013 included an author that is on ResearchGate. From 2008 to 2011, 1.4 million papers were added to the profiles of scientists on ResearchGate. Now, this network is seeing 1.4 million papers added each month, with 27 million papers uploaded in total. And much of the collaborative power is in sharing the raw data between scientists. Every two days, 1,300 data sets are uploaded. The engagement is just growing exponentially."