University of Mysore Vice-chancellor G. Hemantha Kumar on Tuesday said statistics show that the research output of the university is sliding down fast. One ascribing factor may be faculty strength, he added.
Presiding over the workshop on Research Methodology and Publication organized at UoM here, he said the faculty and researchers need to shoulder more responsibility to climb up the ladder of the research landscape. Every effort from the research students must publish at least one research paper annually. One would expect a minimum of 1,000 papers published yearly by the researchers from the University of Mysore, he advised.
He said UoM has one of the promising libraries conducive to research work. “You, as a researcher, have access to Wi-Fi, electronic resources, databases such as Web of Science and IndStat, e-books and other facilities. The governments are investing substantially by way of various schemes of fellowships. The lower rankings impact on institutions’ funding negatively. “We need to improve upon the situation very consciously,” he opined.
