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THE G-INDEX

A set of articles, when ranked in decreasing order of the number of citations that they received,
the g-index is the (unique) largest number such that the top g articles received (together) at least
g2 citations. The set of articles is defined primarily the author of the articles, and hence, g-index is
normally calculated for the authors.

It is also used for comparing the research performance of the universities and hence this also is a
measure for ranking of the various universities. For this, two parameters are considered: g- index
of each faculty, i.e. department, and the g-index of highest globally performing faculty.
Normalization is performed based on the g-index of highest globally performing faculty. An
interfaculty average is taken to arrive at a final Research Performance Index (RPI) value to
indicate all round relative performance. For calculation of RPI, the various faculties are grouped
into 5 as given below:

 MDPHS= Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, and Health Sciences

 PNMS= Pure, Natural, and Mathematical Sciences
 ECT= Engineering, Computing, and Technology
 LBAS= Life, Biological and Agricultural Sciences
 AHBSS= Arts, Humanities, Business, and Social Sciences

Considering this thought in mind, the evaluation of universities based on this parameter is
analysed. Many universities specialise in a particular area. For example, IITs are essentially
technical universities. Very rarely is a paper produced in the field of medical or arts by IITs.
Below is the g-index of the 5 faculties of IIT Kanpur and IISc, and that of Harvard.

University RPI n-index: relative g-index

MDPHS PNMS ECT LBAS AHBSS
Harvard 0.9257 1.0000 .9894 .6360 1.0000 1.0000
IIT, 0.2027 0.0672 .3838 .3402 .1016 .1203
Kanpur
IISc 0.1968 0.0777 0.3521 0.3029 0.1501 0.1031
Source: www.highimpactuniversity.com/rpi.html

As it is evident in the table above, IIT Kanpur and IISc get a far lower RPI than their relative g-
indices in PNMS and ECT because they have a very low relative score in medicines, biological
sciences, and arts. The already low number of researches in this area by such institutes is further
glorified by the fact that to calculate the relative index, it is divided by the g index of faculty with
maximum g index. Hence, there is an inherent flaw in the measurement of research productivity
of an institute by this method alone, especially for universities that are specialist institutes.

As it is clear from the definition, the g-index is a greater measure of the number of citations,
than the number of articles published by any university. A higher g-index hence means a higher
citation level, i.e. higher impact of the paper on the related science. So, we can conclude that g-
index captures the impact of the research much more effectively than it does just the output.
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PRODUCTIVITY BASED ASSESSMENT

New York University Northwestern University of
University California, San
Fransico
Academic staff 6755 3108 13335
Students 43404 19184 159000
Patents 11745 1292 25932
Authors 12828 23766 29989
Publications 28965 29392 23223
Citations 373750 264189 194852
H-Index 204 168 131

Student-faculty ratio 6.425463 6.172458 11.92351

Patents-Authors ratio 0.915575 0.054363 0.864717
Publications-Authors 2.257951 1.236725 0.774384
ratio
Citations-Authors ratio 29.13548 11.11626 6.497449

I am allotted New York University. The university below and above in the high impact university
list are Northwestern University and University of California respectively.

As expected, a higher citations-author ratio translated to a higher H-index. The student faculty
ratio is very high in University of California, but still due to its impact, it ranks above the other
two, who have half the student-teacher ratio.

References:

www.academic.research.microsoft.com

www.scopus.com