Introduction to Research

Importance of Research in Engineering

Education

Prepared By
Dhivya Bharathi N
Mohana Priya KK
Department of Food Technology - PG

Approved By
Dr.S.Shankar
Department of Mechatronics Engineering
 QS WORLD RANKING

 QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university

rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)

 QS ranking - one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the
world.
 QS system comprises the global overall and subject rankings along side five
independent regional tables
(Asia, Latin America, Emerging Europe and Central Asia, the Arab Region,
and BRICS)
Methodology of QS World University Rankings
Indicator Weighting Elaboration

Based on an internal
Academic peer review 40%
global academic survey
Measurement of teaching
Faculty/Student ratio 20%
commitment
Measurement of
Citations per faculty 20%
research impact
Based on a survey on
Employer reputation 10%
graduate employers
Measurement of the
International student ratio 5% diversity of the student
community
Measurement of the
International staff ratio 5% diversity of the academic
staff
 Benefits of ranking

Reputation
and
Globalisation
Visibility

Research
and Strategic
Academic Planning
Development
 QS Ranking - Comparison

Criteria MIT (USA) IIT B IIT M

Overall score 100 48.2 36.5

Academic 100 52.5 35.2

reputation
Employment 100 72.7 45.9
reputation
Faculty student 100 43.3 29.8
ratio
Citation per 99.9 54.1 58.7
faculty
International 100 4.4 3.3
faculty
International 95.5 1.8 1.6
student
Times Higher Education Methodology
 Citation per faculty
 Research plays a major role in QS world ranking

 Measure of research impact - Indicator aims to assess universities research

output

 Citation- piece of research publications being cited (referred to)

 More often a piece of research is cited by others, more influential it is.

 More highly cited research papers a university publishes, stronger its

research output is considered.

 QS collects all this info by Scopus

 Total citation count is assessed in relation to the numbers of academic

faculty members at the university.
 INDIAN STANDARDS - NBA

NBA has a two-tier system of accreditation

• IITs, NITs, Central, State

Private universities, Deemed
TIER - 1 –to-be-universities,
Autonomous colleges

• All affiliated colleges

TIER - 2
 BENEFITS OF ACCREDITATION

 Helps the Institution to know its strengths, weaknesses and

opportunities.

 Initiates Institutions into innovative and modern methods of

pedagogy

 Gives Institutions a new sense of direction and identity

 Provides society with reliable information on quality of education

offered.

 Promotes intra and inter-Institutional interactions.

NBA Criteria
Criteria 5– Importance to R&D

*Out of 200 Marks in Criteria 5, 75 marks allotted to R&D

 Identification of Referred journal
The term academic journal applies to scholarly publications in all fields; this article
discusses the aspects common to all academic field journals.
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as students,
researchers and professors instead of professional journalists.

Indexing

Impact factor

Publisher
 Indexing
Indexed journal means those journals indexed by secondary services, for
different subjects there are different abstracting and indexing services.

For example Pubmed is one for biomedical journals.

Why is indexing essential?
 Indexing will help your journal achieve its main purpose of being accessible to
a wide audience.

 Being accessible in turn will improve your journal’s reputation as a reliable

source of high-quality information in your field.

 Database research is the first activity researchers undertake as part of their

study, and they naturally look to established, well-known databases. Thus,
being indexed in a known database in your field will help increase your
journal’s readership.
 How does indexing work?

Once a journal is indexed by a database, it is immediately made available to all

users of that database.

Some databases index titles, some index full articles while some others index only
the abstract and/or references.

Main index to be considered for a referred Science and Engineering journal:

Given by Clarivate analytics

 SCI(Science citation index) / SCIE (Science citation index Expanded)

Given by Elsevier

 Scopus
 Indexing - Overall

 Applied Sciences & Technology Index;

 Chemical Abstracts Service Plus;
 Compendex; CSA – Civil Engineering Abstracts;
 CSA – Computer & Information Systems Abstracts;
 Materials Science Citation Index;
 Science Citation Index;
 Science Citation Index Expanded;
 Scopus.
 PubMedCentral,
 INSPEC,
 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS),
 Google Scholar,
 Indian Citation Index
 ProQuest
 Impact factor
The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR
year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years.

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a
measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles
published in that journal.
 Referred Publishers - Engineering

 Elsevier
 ASME/ASCE/IEEE,…
 Springer
 Wiley online library
 SAGE
 De Gruyter
 Taylor and Francis
 Emerald
 Institute of Press (IOP)
 Institute of Science (IOS)
 Hindawi
 World Scientific
 Inderscience…
Other journal publishers with SCI/SCIE Indexing
 Journal Paper - Classification

Original Research Article

 This is the most common type of journal manuscript used to publish full
reports of data from research. It may be called an Original Article, Research
Article, Research, or just Article, depending on the journal.

 The Original Research format is suitable for many different fields and
different types of studies.

 It includes full Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections.

 any new findings and new work carried out by one.

 Word Limitations - should around 3000-5000 words

 Paper evaluated by 2 or 3 reviewers

 Short communication
 These papers communicate brief reports of data from original research that
editors believe will be interesting to many researchers, and that will likely
stimulate further research in the field.

 As they are relatively short the format is useful for scientists with results that are
time sensitive (for example, those in highly competitive or quickly-changing
disciplines).

 This format often has strict length limits, so some experimental details may not
be published until the authors write a full Original Researchm anuscript. These
papers are also sometimes called Brief communications. any new work done on
the new area

 Paper will be evaluated mostly by one Potential reviewer –

 Word Limitations mostly - 1500 words

 Review Article

 Review Articles provide a comprehensive summary of research on a certain

topic, and a perspective on the state of the field and where it is heading.

 They are often written by leaders in a particular discipline after invitation from
the editors of a journal.

 Reviews are often widely read (for example, by researchers looking for a full
introduction to a field) and highly cited.

 Reviews commonly cite approximately 100 primary research articles.

 It contains all consolidated form of information in one particular area

 Word Limitations - 7500 words, It may have more citation in future

 Review article
 A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of
understanding on a topic.

 A review article surveys and summarizes previously published studies,

rather than reporting new facts or analysis.

 Review articles are sometimes also called survey articles or, in news
publishing, overview articles.

Review articles teach about:

 the main people working in a field

 recent major advances and discoveries

 significant gaps in the research

 current debates and ideas of where research might go next

 Case study
 These articles report specific instances of interesting phenomena.

 A goal of Case Studies is to make other researchers aware of the possibility

that a specific phenomenon might occur.

 This type of study is often used in medicine to report the occurrence of

previously unknown or emerging pathologies.

Methodologies or Methods

 These articles present a new experimental method, test or procedure.

 The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better
version of an existing method.

 The article should describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently

available.
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