NIRF does not use any classification of journals for rankings of management Institutions: Union Education Minister

The NIRF does not use any classification of journals for rankings of management Institutions, Union Education Minister informed Rajya Sabha.

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) does not use any classification of journals while doing the rankings of the management institutions, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said while answering to a question in the Rajya Sabha.“The NIRF does not use any classification of journals for rankings of management Institutions. All articles published in management discipline and indexed in Web of Science and Scopus are considered for ranking of management institutions,” said Pokhriyal. “Articles published in FT50 journals are also given additional weightage,” he added.

He further informed the Upper House that for the classification of journals, the ministry refers to the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) ratings. In the ABDC ratings, various research institutes of the world are divided into four categories – A*, A, B, C.

The National Institutional Ranking Framework is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The Framework was approved by the MHRD and launched by Minister of Human Resource Development on 29 September 2015. 

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) had emerged as India’s top college for management course and secured the first rank in the latest National Indian Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2020 released earlier.

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