by Disha Saxena
Over half of the management institutes that took part in the NIRF Rankings this year don't have even one published paper to their name, which is a sign of a poor research culture in the nation's environment for management education.
In the management category of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) this year, roughly 670 institutes took part, of which 383 (or 57.16%) had no research publications. Unsurprisingly, only the top 100 management institutes published 4,405 total research articles, or 85% of all papers submitted to the NIRF by the 670 management institutes that participated.
Just 6.5 management-related publications on average, or two papers year, were published by each institute over a three-year period. Of all the categories, this is the lowest. In contrast, the engineering category has 168 papers per institute on average. There are no research publications from 61% of the 1,181 participating engineering colleges and institutes.
India only accounts for 4.45% of the global publications in the management discipline. In contrast, our contribution to global engineering research is 6.93%.
One of the five criteria on which higher education institutions are judged in the management category of the NIRF is research output. The other factors include outreach, diversity, graduation rates, teaching and learning resources, and perception.
The NIRF report notes that given that many universities place a strong emphasis on undergraduate instruction, it is "not unexpected" that so many institutes have zero research publications. According to the report, "to a lesser extent, the focus is on "case studies" rather than on research articles" with regard to management institutions.
As a further warning, it should be emphasised that this data only applies to articles that are part of the management discipline as defined by the Web of Science, according to the report's footnote. It is obvious that many of the top management schools also publish in related fields like Economics, Social Sciences, Information Technology, and Psychology. Since these fields may not fall under the purview of management, they are not taken into account in this analysis.
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