Productivity and Publishing Trends of Previously and Newly Established Centrally Funded Universities of India

The purpose of the present study was to analyse the productivity of the centrally funded universities in India. The previously established central universities (prior to 2009) and newly established central universities (established in 2009 or later) were analysed separately. Data were collected from the Web of Science for the period from 2017 to 2021. It was found that 91.32 % of the publications were journal articles whereas 8.7 % of the publications were review papers. The publications in the study were cited altogether approximately 483,764 times. The highest citations were received by Banaras Hindu University (79,851), while for newly established universities it was Central University of Punjab (9,936). Co-authorship analysis revealed that the median authors ranged from 2 to 6. The data analysis further revealed that Elsevier was the publisher for approximately 47 % of the top 50 cited publications of each university in the study.