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Investing in faculty crucial for B-schools livemint.com | Premchand Palety |
For almost a decade, as part of the annual survey of professional colleges we do, I have visited various campuses—347, to be precise—in different parts of the country. Most of them, unfortunately, don’t have the environment that motivates the faculty to do research. Unless the quality of research and knowledge created is of a high order, a paper can’t be published in a top-ranking journal or get good citations. To write such a paper, faculty members will have to update themselves by reading about new developments in their area and interacting with the industry. This ensures they don’t teach outdated stuff. |
The adjoining table gives the number of papers published by the faculty members of some India’s top B-schools. But numbers can be misleading. The quality of refereed global journals varies drastically. In our annual ranking surveys, we use the Thomson Reuters ranking of journals to give weightage to publications. Thomson Scientific Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge is also an important tool for getting information on publications and their citation index. Among Indian B-schools, IIM Ahmedabad is No. 1 in terms of quality of publications and cases developed. Icfai Foundation for Higher Education’s B-school in Hyderabad scores in quantity but not in quality. It has its own press and churns out a large number of publications annually with wide variance in quality. |
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Among Indian B-schools, IIM Ahmedabad is No. 1 in terms of quality of publications and cases developed. Icfai Foundation for Higher Education’s B-school in Hyderabad scores in quantity but not in quality. Ahmed Raza Khan / Mint |
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