Intellectual output of the SRTM University indexed in the Web of Science

Teaching, research and extension are the fundamental duties of the university. These activities, research in particular, generate research outcome which is the intellectual output of the university. This year, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University has celebrated its silver jubilee year. This paper presents analysis of intellectual output of the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University in the last twenty five years as represented in the Web of Science.


Introduction
Research output of a university is one of the effective measures in evaluating the efficacy of a Higher Education Institution as a space for higher learning, apart from other criteria such as teaching methodologies adopted, performance of the students, their placements, etc. According to the index published by the Nature (2019), India stands at 12 th position in the world raking in terms of its research output for the current year. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 published recently (Economic Times, 2019), contained a list of 56 Indian institutions among the top world institutions, a raking based on citation impact score, improvements in research and teaching environment and industry income. However, quite dishearteningly, not a single Indian university could make up to the top 300 list. While premier institutions like, IISc, IITs take lion's share in the India's research contribution, even the conventional universities established with a primary mandate to provide access to higher education to one and all such as the SRTMUN, are also not lagging behind and are contributing significantly to the research wealth of the country. This paper describes the research output of the SRTMUN as published in research journals indexed in the Web of Science as a measure to evaluate the intellectual output of the university in the past twenty five years.

Definitions of key concepts Intellectual output
Research articles authored by the researchers for publication in reputed research journals.

SRTMU
The university that was established on 17 th September 1994 in Nanded after bifurcating the then Marathwada University and which is recognized by the UGC under 12(b) and 2(f) catering to the educational needs specifically to the districts of Nanded, Latur, Parbhani and Hingoli. The university is re-accredited as "A" grade University by NAAC.
Web of Science: is a publisher-independent global citation database with a powerful research engine. It has a collection of over 1.7 billion cited references from over 159 million records gathered from over 9,000 leading academic, corporate and government institutions and contributions from millions of researchers.
Objectives of the paper 1. To review growth in intellectual output of the SRTM University. 2. To compare intellectual output of the university campus schools. 3. To rank the university campus teachers based on their publications. 4. To verify authorship pattern and calculate degree of collaboration. 5. To prepare rank list of highly cited papers.

Hypothesis
1. There is continuous growth in publications of the university. 2. Science schools are more productive in publications. 3. More number of teachers publish their papers in collaboration.

Methodology
The research method applied for the present paper is descriptive and survey. Data is collected from the web of science online database and analyzed with the help of MS-Excel.

Scope and Limitations
The study covers entire publication output of the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University teachers in the last twenty five years as covered by the Web of Science.

Growth in intellectual output
When Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University was established on 17 th September 1994, there were very few teachers in the campus. It took two to three years for the university to well establish the schools, departments and appoint the faculty. Table 1 shows growth in the intellectual output of the university since its establishment.

Degree of Collaboration
Numerous studies have been conducted in the past by various researchers to find the degree of collaboration and collaboration co-efficient. Subramanian (1983) enunciated the formula C=Nm/ (Ns+Nm), where C is the degree of collaboration, Ns is the number of single authored papers, Nm is the number of multi-authored papers. In the present case, C = 16/ 16+592 = 16/608 = 0.02632 Hence the degree of collaboration of papers is 0.2632.

Highly cited papers (Top five ranks, 21 papers)
Citation is a general concept applied in research writing. It specifies the reference of the paper that has been read, referred by the researcher. The author analyzed and ranked papers under study as per their citations count.

Conclusion
In the twenty five years of its noteworthy existence, Swami Ramanand Teertha Marathwada University Nanded has been able to contribute its might to the body of knowledge with significant contributions from its teachers and researchers. A spike in the research contributions is evident since 2010. The last five years have produced almost half of the overall research outputs of the university. It is also evident that collaborative authoring of the research papers is the choicest mode of authorship for most of the researchers. With its mission to achieve continuous excellence, the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University is all set to achieving new heights in the research outputs in the years to come.