An Ardent Venture to Evaluate University-Level Research Productivity through the Lens of Scientometrics

It is a ubiquitous fact that today’s main research output is, besides many others, nothing but data. The data born today is chiefly digital. The rate of data creation is swift, enormous and mounting exponentially. For instance, the raw image files of the single human genome have around 30 terabytes size. The R & D as well as higher learning institutions like universities nowadays, every two days generate as much data as was produced since the BC period until 2000. As Forbes magazine remarked, by 2020, the amount of digital information available will have grown from around 5 Zettabytes today to 50 Zettabytes. According to Quora, Indian R&D and higher learning institutions create 20 TB data every day. Besides, the proliferation of all sorts of data is resulted by individuals, companies, governments and all kinds of known objects and events happening everywhere in daily life — the steep exponential growth results deluge of data in all disciplines in no time. The scientific knowledge today stands on the shoulder of the big data boom that is today’s giant.