Mapping the research productivity with its social impact of universities of west Bengal in the field of engineering and computer science

Abstract

Research performance is one of the major concerns for all the higher education institutions. Research is one of the important among many factors for assessing the quality of an institute. Research reflects with the facilities provided by the institutes, such facilities like funding, journal and database accessibility, reward and recognition etc. The study aims to measure the research performance in the field of Engineering and Computer Sciences of six NAAC ‘A’ graded universities of West Bengal. The study also highlights the variance in terms of total research output of these universities. The study based on literature available in Scopus databases only. The study finds a huge variance among universities in terms of total publications in the subject fields taken for the study. Study also highlights the social impact of some top cited articles from these fields.