JSSAHER is Forging Ahead in All Key Domains That Matter

FOR MYSURU HEADQUARTERED JSS ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION & RESEARCH, EACH ACADEMIC YEAR IS A QUEST TO OUTDO ITSELF, AS THERE ARE NOT MANY PRIVATE SECTOR PEERS THAT ARE FAR AHEAD OF IT. AND THIS DEEMED-TO-BE UNIVERSITY IS DOING IT WITH ELAN YEAR AFTER YEAR UNDER THE BLESSINGS OF ITS CHANCELLOR JAGADGURU SRI SHIVARATHRI DESHIKENDRA MAHASWAMIJI, PRO CHANCELLOR DR. B SURESH AND VICE CHANCELLOR DR. SURINDER SINGH.

An emerging powerhouse in research, JSSAHER, has in recent months achieved a remarkable milestone of having an overall hindex of 100 in SCOPUS database. The h-index, which stands for Hirsch index, measures the impact of a particular institution or a scientist, and for a university, it denotes the maximum number of citations received for the publications arising from that university. A higher h-index shows the quality of research publications from the university and has been used as a reflection of quality of research by various ranking and accreditation bodies like NAAC, NIRF, QS and Times Higher Education Rankings. For many years, JSSAHER has been continuously improving the quality of research by collaborating with prominent universities across the world. By early this year, JSSAHER had a total number of 11,336 publications of which 5,327 publications were indexed in SCOPUS. The swift rise of the university in h-index has surprised the sector, but on close looks it becomes clear that it is the product of a superior vision to pursue multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, as well as the hard work by its scholars which led to publications in high impact journals that resulted in 100 such publications of JSSAHER achieving 100 citations each, which equates to an ‘h’ index of 100. With such concerted efforts in research, it is really no wonder that when the prestigious UK based Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by Subject 2023 was announced last month, JSSAHER was the only Indian institution to feature under top 150 ranks in the subject ‘Clinical & Health’ with a rank band 126-150. Altogether there were 16 participating institutions under this subject in India. Signalling that it is benefitting much from its international tie-ups, JSSAHER moved ahead of its peer and longterm collaborator La Trobe University of Australia, this time. With this achievement in THE rankings, the university is starting to grab international eyeballs as it was ranked along with several leading

Universities in the world including University of Aberdeen, UK, University of Calgary, Canada, University of California, Davis, USA, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Iowa, USA. And surprise of surprises, JSSAHER’s high citation score placed it equal on that count with none other than Dr. Surinder Singh, Vice Chancellor

Harvard University, which had secured third place in this ranking. The university’s 13th Convocation was a grand affair, where a total of 2,339 students received their degrees and diplomas in various faculties. While 65 of the graduates were awarded PhD degree, 25 others were awarded MPhil, six candidates were conferred with the Doctorate in Medicine and MCh degrees. Academic toppers were specially commended, with a total of 60 academic toppers being given a total of 83 medals and awards with certificates for their exceptional performances. The students who received the degrees this year came from various JSSAHER institutions including JSS Medical College, Mysuru, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysuru, JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, School of Life Sciences, Mysuru, School of Life Sciences, Ooty and School of Public Health, Mysuru.