IIT Delhi bags Clarivate India Research Excellence Citation Award 2021

The institute has been awarded for research excellence in the social sciences and interdisciplinary sciences category.

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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi Director V Ramgopal Rao received the award. He said, “These awards tell the story of some remarkable research works that have happened at IIT Delhi. Our researchers are committed to support the nation’s 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' dream by developing new technologies to help the society and the country”.

Arpan Kumar Kar from IIT Delhi’s Department of Management Studies also won the India Research Excellence - Citation Awards 2021 for research excellence in social sciences and interdisciplinary sciences category.

Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, awards institutes and individual researchers for their outstanding and pioneering research contributions. Clarivate has recognised the most influential researchers and institutions in India since 2004. The awards were based on in-depth analysis of data compiled from the Web of Science™ citation index and InCites™ - a research performance benchmarking and analytics tool.

Highly cited research publications that imply high impact research was an important criterion for the analysis, in addition to a series of other bibliometric indicators and a qualitative review of the research output. The analysis was based on the publication output during the period 2015-2020.

IIT Delhi tweeted, “#IITDelhi has won @clarivate India Research Excellence- Citation Awards 2021 for Research Excellence in Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Sciences category. Prof V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi received the award.”

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