Mapping of Research Collaboration, Analysis of Literature Growth and Forecasting Research Progression of IITs

Abstract

The paper gives a holistic overview of growth in research papers, degree of collaboration and future publications of newly established IITs based on Scopus data. It aims to analyse the growth performance and efficiency of the IITs, overall research output by measuring relative growth rate, doubling time and collaboration index. The study reveals that the cumulative publications contributed by newly established IITs during 2010-2021 is 31393. The study also noted the persistence increase in the citations by 526671 against publications contributed by all newly established IITs. The study used Exponential Smoothing (ETS) algorithms as a univariate forecasting method to predict the number of publications that can be published altogether by the IITs in the next five years.