Abstract
The graduation or ranking of higher educational institutes like colleges or universities are evaluated on the basis of different criteria. The most important criterion is research criterion. Higher educational institutes need to collect staffs and students’ research publications, and also check their citations, h-Index, i10-Index and impact factors of journals. Even the evaluation committees like National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) expect higher educational institutes to give cumulative citation, h-index and i10-index, that is, research metrics. In order to get individual and cumulative research metrics like number of citations, number of citable documents, cites per document, h-Index and i10-Index, and impact factor of journals in an easy way, authors took the initiative to create Google Scholar profile of each faculty and then created Google Scholar account for the colleges adding links of all faculties’ on the Google Scholar accounts. This innovative new strategy will benefit higher education institutes appearing for NAAC accreditation or re-accreditation, or other ranking systems by the instructions, guidelines and steps furnished in this report. Key words: Citation index, i10-index, h-index, Google Scholar, cumulative citations, higher education, rankings, accreditation, Criteria III, research.
Highlights
In India, in the last decade, the numbers of universities and colleges have increased significantly
There are many things the committee head needs to consider when calculating the total number of citations, h-index, i10-index and impact factor of journals of all faculties, and compile it to calculate the cumulative research metrics
Articles published in open access journals and indexed journals gets more citations, and Google Scholar listed them to increase citation making it easy to add in Google Scholar profile of the institute, it is advisable to insist that staffs should publish their research work in open access and indexed journals
Summary
In India, in the last decade, the numbers of universities and colleges have increased significantly. Standardization (ISO), and recently introduced National Institutional Rankings of Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India were put in place to rank their performance All these agencies and bodies evaluate the higher educational institutes with regular frequency on the basis of their teaching, learning and resources, research, consulting and collaborative performance, graduation outcome, outreach, inclusivity and perception, etc. There are many things the committee head needs to consider when calculating the total number of citations, h-index, i10-index and impact factor of journals of all faculties, and compile it to calculate the cumulative research metrics. Many institutes have their institutional repository that contains their faculty publications for reference purpose. This study tried to provide simple techniques to face this criterion effectively in front of the committees with confidence and without much stress
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