Kerala’s universities have witnessed a substantial growth in research output during the last five years, according to an assessment by international scientific publisher Elsevier.
The report has recorded an 11% cumulative annual growth rate of publications while evaluating the research performance of State universities between 2018 and 2023. It has also pegged the average field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) at 1.38 and the average citations per publication at 11.3 during the period.
FWCI compares the total citations received by a researcher’s publication to the average number of citations received by similar publications with a value greater than one indicating citations higher than that expected based on the global average.
