1. Preamble

B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology has a well-established research promotion policy to build a research ecosystem and create a conducive research ambiance for promoting and expediting research activities among faculty members, research scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students.

2. Research administrative structure

The Institute has a Research Advisory Council and Research Board to monitor all kinds of research activities and facilitate high-quality research publications. The Research Board formulates and updates research policies time to time according to UGC Regulations and to ensure that researchers follow the research guidelines and regulations of our Institute.

3. Policy components and guidelines

3.1 Ph.D. programme

• Admission to the Ph.D. programme (full-time / part-time) is twice a year (January & July). Selection is based on entrance tests and interviews
• A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline with a minimum of 55% (or equivalent CGPA) is required to apply for the Ph.D. programme
• Upon registration, each research scholar will be allocated a research supervisor and a Doctoral Committee (DC) with one internal member and one external member to guide the scholar and monitor the research progress throughout the Ph.D. programme
• Research Methodology (4 credits) and Research and Publications ethics (2 credits) are the mandatory courses
• All the research publications should be peer-reviewed and indexed by Scopus / Web of Science and listed in the UGC CARE list
• Ph.D. thesis shall be evaluated by two examiners, one Indian and one foreign examiner, and VIVA-VOCE Examination is of open – defense type

3.2 Research Fellowships

• The Institute offers sixty (60) BSA Research fellowships (JRF and SRF) to captivate bright youngsters to take up research activities on full-time basis.
• In addition to BSA fellowships, the Institute offers “Earn while you learn scheme (EWL)” to support full-time research scholars who do not receive any fellowships. Further, the Institute offers twenty (20) Post-doctoral fellowships (PDF) for meritorious scholars awarded the Ph.D. degree. The fellowship amount for PDF is Rs.30,000/- per month.

3.3 Crescent Seed Money

• The Institute offers Crescent Seed Money (Rs. 1,00,000/-) to encourage faculty members, research scholars, and students (Rs.20,000/-) to participate / collaborate in research activities and apply for research grants to funding agencies. The award of Crescent Seed Money will be based on the quality of the research proposals and the required budget to execute the research work

3.4 Research Incentives

• The Institute offers Research Incentives to motivate the faculty members to publish quality research publications, availing sponsored research projects, patent filing process, and other research-related activities. The incentives will be awarded based on SNIP of (Scopus / WOS) indexed journals published, books, book chapters, the amount sanctioned for sponsored projects, and granted patents

3.5 TURNITIN, (plagiarism detection), an originality check software

• The Institute subscribes for a licensed Turnitin, an originality check software, every year to assist the researchers in verifying the similarity index of the journal manuscripts and Ph.D. Theses with value limited to 10%.

3.6 Departmental Academic Integrity Panel (DAIP) and Institutional Academic Integrity Panel (IAIP)

• The Institute has constituted two panels, Institutional Academic Integrity Panel (IAIP) and Departmental Academic Integrity Panel (DAIP), as per UGC regulations 2018 to ensure that the similarity index of every article and thesis is within the limit of 10%

3.6 Researgence database

• The Institute has a subscription to RESEARGENCE every year, which is a repository system for the overall research data of the Institute. The research publications and other activities of each School / Department / Faculty are monitored by the office of Dean (Research) through this database
• The faculty members should update their profile in RESEARGENCE on a regular basis