Table 1 Indicators included in the SCimago ranking.

From: Unleashing the potential: a quest to understand and examine the factors enriching research and innovation productivities of South Asian universities

Indicators

Measurements

Research productivity

Normalized impact (leadership output), documents in excellence in which the institution is the main contributor; the number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in Scopus; the number of journals published by the institution (publishing services); international collaboration, the amount of an institution’s scientific output, the amount of an institution’s output as main contributor, and documents published in open access journals or indexed in Unpaywall database.

Innovation productivity

Innovative knowledge is the scientific publication output from an institution cited in patents; technological impact is the percentage of the scientific publication output cited in patents; and patents which is the number of patent applications

  1. Source: SCimago Institutions Ranking Methodology, 2024.
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