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M Madhan

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M Madhan

M Madhan

Visiting Scholar

Librarian, azim premji university

Email: mu.madhan@gmail.com,
madhan.m@azimpremjifoundation.org

Madhan is a librarian by profession and he has more than 20 years experience in research and academic librarianship.  His research interests are scientometrics, and open access to scholarly publications.  His other interests are open data, open educational resources and library technologies.

Research papers:

Muthu Madhan, Subbiah Gunasekaran, Rani M T, Subbiah Arunachalam, T A Abinandanan, (2020) Chemistry research in India in a global perspective- A scientometrics profile, Preprint Arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03093

Muthu Madhan, Ricky Cheng, 2019, Directory of Open Educational Resources (DOER): A discovery service framework to provide structured access to OERs, Pan Commonwealth Forum 19, Edinburugh  http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3236 

Muthu Madhan, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachlam (2018), Evaluation of research: Are we doing it right in India? International Journal of Medical Ethics, < https://ijme.in/articles/evaluation-of-research-in-india-are-we-doing-it-right/> 

Francis Jayakanth and Muthu Madhan (2017), Open Access for Engineers and Engineering, IEEE Newsletter < http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/icnl/17q4/p53-p57.pdf> 

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan (2017), Chemistry research in India: Making progress, but not rapidly. Current Science 112 (7) < http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/07/1330.pdf > 

Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam (2017), Should Indian researchers pay to publish their papers? Current Science 112 (4) http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/04/0703.pdf  

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan (2016), Adopting ORCID as a unique identifier will benefit all involved in scholarly communication, National Medical Journal of India, 29(4) <http://www.nmji.in/temp/NatlMedJIndia294227-2137207_055612.pdf>

Muthu Madhan and Subbiah Arunachalam (2011), Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings, Current Science, 100(9), P 1297-1306 http://oar.icrisat.org/1/

Muthu Madhan, Chandrasekar, G and Subbiah Arunachalam (2010), Highly cited papers from India and China, Current Science, 99(6), P 738 – 749 http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace/handle/2080/1293

 

Reports:

Muthu Madhan (2015), Quantitative features of Indian School of Business (ISB) research output – A bibliometric analysis using Scopus.  Report commissioned by Learning Resource Centre, ISB. 

 Muthu Madhan (2014), A Global View of Open Access: A perspective on OA in India, Tony Hey on eScience Blog https://tonyhey.net/2014/06/03/a-global-view-of-open-access-part-6/ 

Madhan, M and Siva Shankar, K (2013) Mapping world chickpea research published during 2001-2010. Project Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. http://oar.icrisat.org/7947/ 

Madhan, M and Siva Shankar, K (2013) Mapping world pearl millet research published during 2001-2010. Project Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. http://oar.icrisat.org/7945/ 

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan (2012), Open Access to scholarly literature in India – Report commissioned by Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore http://cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/open-access-to-scholarly-literature

Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan, (2010), Scientometric profile of Dr V Mohan, an Indian Diabetalogist, Report Commissioned by Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Chennai

Interview:

 “Muthu Madhan: One nation one subscription is an elusive goal” Open interview. December 12, 2020. https://openinterview.org/2020/12/12/muthu-madhan-one-nation-one-subscription-is-an-elusive-goal/

Science Diplomacy

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Science Diplomacy

Science Diplomacy

Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Diplomacy is being increasingly used by countries around the world as an important instrument in foreign policy and diplomacy activities, especially in commercializing the nascent and potential capabilities of national STI ecosystems in emerging and strategic technologies such as Quantum Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Biotechnology. The Centre’s research on STI diplomacy is focused on (a) studying the role of STI, particularly in emerging technologies, in India’s foreign policy agenda, and (b) examining relationships between India’s STI capabilities and foreign policy goals, and (c) developing policy options for India’s efforts in STI diplomacy.

 

Emerging Technologies

Emerging Technologies such as AI, Blockchain, Genome editing and Quantum technologies are essential drivers of the next phase of development. However, their immense possible impact on all walks of life necessitates the formulation of policy frameworks for their governance. Such policy frameworks should also incorporate tech diplomacy and global tech governance dimensions due to the inherently transboundary nature of these technologies. This project is an early attempt towards developing policy and governance frameworks for emerging technologies with the initial focus on Genome editing and Quantum technologies.

 

Biosecurity

For more details, please contact, Dr. Suryesh K Namdeo or Dr. B Chagun Basha

B. Chagun Basha

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B. Chagun Basha

B. Chagun Basha

Chief Policy adviser

E: chagunbasha@iisc.ac.in

B. Chagun Basha, is currently a Chief Policy Adviser at the OPSA-Policy Analytics and Insights Unit, IISc.  Dr. Basha had been with the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India as Senior Technical Specialist. His work is organized around 3 verticals: STI Data, Policy and Diplomacy. Previously, he was with Department of Science & Technology (Government of India) – Centre for Policy Research (DST-CPR) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He belongs to the first cohort of DST-Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy Fellowship Programme (DST-STI-PFP 2016). Before that, he worked as a Senior Science & Technology Insights Analyst with open-innovation industry.

Dr. Basha holds a Ph.D. in Space Electronics from the L’institut d’électronique et de télécommunications de Rennes (UMR CNRS 6164) at the University of Rennes 1, France and thereafter continued his post-doctoral research at École Polytechnique de l’Université de Nantes, France. Prior to that, he was with INRIA-Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires (UMR CNRS 6074) as a Research Fellow.

His interest areas, in the broader STI policy realm, include STI Diplomacy, Measurement and Metrics for STI, and Science Advice.

Maresi Nerad

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Maresi Nerad

Prof. Maresi Nerad

Visiting Professor

E: mnerad@uw.edu

Maresi Nerad is the founding director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and a Professor for Higher Education, College of Education, at the University of Washington, Seattle and an affiliated professor at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley. A native of Germany, Dr. Nerad received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley; directed research in the central Graduate Division of UC Berkeley, served as Dean in Residence at the Council of Graduate Schools, D.C. (the professional association of US Graduate Deans), and as Associate Dean of the UW central Graduate School. She was appointed as distinguished Mieguanyah Fellow by the Graduate School of the University of Melbourne, Australia, as Professor Extraordinary by the University of the Free State, South Africa, and received the Fulbright Specialist award. She was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, at Nagoya University, Japan and at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.

She has served on many national and international review committees and advisory boards, such as the International Advisory Committee for Science and Engineering of NSF (US), the National Academies Panel to evaluate the NSF/NCSES approach to measuring the US Science and Engineering Workforce, the U.S. National Research Council, the German Excellence Initiative, the Presidential Innovation Board of the University of Bremen, Germany, the Graduate Academy of the Goethe University of Frankfurt. She has undertaken evaluation research for flagship interdisciplinary doctoral programs in the U.S. (NSF/IGERT), in Germany, and for the European Commission (ITN). She has written and edited 5 books and published numerous articles on doctoral education (Towards a Global PhD? Globalization and the Impact on the Quality on Doctoral Education).

Most recently she has secured funding and co-organized an international workshop and conference on Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide in Difficult Political Times (VW Foundation) in September 1-5, 2019 in Hannover Germany. The resulting book, Towards a Core Value System in Doctoral Education, UCL Press will appear in spring 2022. Resulting policy recommendations are to be found under www.doctoral-education.info.

She publishes with current and former students, advises and coaches on a broad range of issues in doctoral education and in early research careers worldwide and currently is investigating Taboos in Doctoral Education Across Countries.

S. Arunachalam

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S. Arunachalam

S. Arunachalam

Visiting Professor

E: arunachalams@iisc.ac.in subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com

Prof. S. Arunachalam is globally known for his expertise in Scientometrics and their use for assessing the research impact on a wide scale ranging from individuals and departments to institutions and countries.  His interests includes scientometrics, science policy, information science, public understanding of science, openness in scholarly communication, ICT for Development and rural knowledge centres and improving information access, both for scientists and for the rural poor. He is one of the earliest in the developing countries to use citation indexes to study developments in science and science policy. He was instrumental in CSIR, DBT and DST adopting Green open access as official policy.

Scientometrics

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Scientometrics

Scientometrics

Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analyzing science, technology and innovation, which includes the measurement of impact, reference sets of articles to investigate the impact of journals and institutes, understanding of scientific citations, mapping scientific fields and the production of indicators for use in policy contexts. The Centre has an active working group on scientometrics with the focus on accessing how well Indian institutions perform in various fields of scientific research. The team, led by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam (a globally renowned scientometrician), has developed a methodology for data-collecting and a general framework for studying the research performance of Indian institutions in various scientific disciplines. Through which, the Centre currently has on-going studies to evaluate the research performance of some of the major disciplines, such as chemistry, engineering, materials, astrophysics, mathematics, biological sciences, and physics.

 
 

STI Indicators and R&D Statistics

STI Indicators: Measuring STI is fundamental for the formulation of national innovation strategies.  Absence of “relevant” indicators is often considered a major obstacle for the design and implementation of STI policies in developing countries. The existing indicators are failing to serve their very own purpose in the policy – making process, because the existing indicators do not capture the relationship between STI activities and socioeconomic development. As a matter of fact, macro level indicators do not always reflect capabilities to achieve microlevel developmental targets.  The issues are becoming more cross-disciplinary in nature. The notion of linear relation between R&D activities (between R&D input and output) is vanishing and R&D as a process (input, output, outcome and impact) is becoming more and more of a complex system. The conventional STI indicators limit itself only to inputs and outputs; neglecting the monitoring of outcomes and impacts of STI process. The idea of harnessing the efforts in STI to achieve the development goals demands for new forms of indicators.  With this background, this work attempts to develop a conceptual framework for cross-cutting STI indicators interlaced between STI capabilities and developmental targets.

 

R&D Statistics are very important to formulate accurate indicators to monitor country’s R&D efforts. Accurate data-collection ensures reliability of the R&D indicators; and these indicators are very important to craft effective public policies. To produce R&D statistics, the methodology proposed by the OECD in the Frascati Manual (FM) is used extensively in both OECD and Non-OECD developing countries, even though it was originally written for R&D surveys in just OECD member countries. The characteristics of research systems in developing countries differ significantly from the OECD countries. Developing countries face problems when trying to apply the FM standards to the situation in their country. Hence, UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) has come-up with an annex to FM – to provide suggestions on how the concepts in the FM should be interpreted to ensure that data better reflect the characteristics of R&D activity in developing countries while still maintaining international comparability. However, in Indian context, there are still several challenges related to R&D data, particularly in terms of its reliability, accessibility and availability. This study compares the R&D data-collection methodology in different countries to learn how the FM methodology is adapted in various national setups to construct their data-collection models to achieve reliable R&D statistics.

 

For more details, please contact, Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Prof. Abinandanan or M Madhan

Workshop on “Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Research”, 11-13 December 2017

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Workshop on “Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Research”, 11-13 December 2017

Workshop on “Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Research”
11-13 December 2017 | Biological Sciences Building, IISc, Bengaluru

Panel Discussion on Science, Technology, Innovation and its impact on Socio-economic Development

On December 12, 2017 at CES Seminar Hall, Third Floor, Biological Sciences Building, IISc, Bengaluru.

Please find the Poster for the event below.

 

Workshop on “Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Research”

11-13 December 2017 | Biological Sciences Building, IISc, Bengaluru

The event is supported by Department of Science Technology (DST), Government of India, organized jointly by DST – Centre for Policy Research, IISc, Bengaluru, and Nation Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru.

About the Workshop

Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are now recognized as playing a significant role in advancing human, social, and economic development and meeting the aspirations of people and nations across the world. As a result, understanding STI processes and exploring ways to strengthen them is a major strand of intellectual activity, evinced by the explosion of literature on these topics in the last decade. At the same time, there are significant efforts to link this understanding to better policy-making by a range of governmental agencies (both in developed and emerging economies) and inter-governmental organizations. It is important to understand the inter-link between ‘science and public policy’; i.e., the use of scientific skills in formulating better policies (science for policy) as wee as understanding how the policies impact the science (policy for science). Department of Science and Technology (DST) recognized the importance of evidence-driven research and established DST Centers for Policy Research (CPRs) in various academic institutions across the country. These centers are engaged in targeted research in number of key areas relevant to the country, train young scholars in STI policy research, and contribute towards better STI policy making by providing inputs to DST.

The workshop intends to introduce various components, tools, methodologies and frameworks of STI policy research to young scholars working in this field, covering both; ‘science for policy’ and ‘policy for science’ related topics through series of lectures, invited talks and panel/group discussions. Also, this workshop aims to provide a deeper understanding about STI policy drafting and implementation mechanisms in India.

Please find the agenda attached : WSTIPR2017_Program

For more information, contact:

SECRETARIAT
WORKSHOP ON STI POLICY RESEARCH
DST – CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE.
BENGALURU – 560 012

+91-80-2293 2750/2066

chagunbasha@iisc.ac.in

Event on “Eugene Garfield and Scientometrics” Eugene Garfield in Memoriam, 30 Oct 2017

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Event on “Eugene Garfield and Scientometrics” Eugene Garfield in Memoriam, 30 Oct 2017

Event on “Eugene Garfield and Scientometrics”

Eugene Garfield in Memoriam


, 30 Oct 2017

Dear all,

The DST-Centre for Policy Research at Indian Institute of Science is pleased to invite you to a half-day event on

“Eugene Garfield and Scientometrics”

Eugene Garfield in Memoriam

Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

30 Oct 2017 | 10 am – 12.30 pm

This event is to celebrate the life and work of a man who not only had the imagination, pragmatic judgment, and immense energy required to invent, produce, and develop a useful tool for a seemingly routine but fundamental task in science, viz. searching the literature, but also had a deep intuitive sense of the social, cultural, and cognitive structures latent in the practice of science. With his visionary enthusiasm, Garfield saw in his creations a better science for society and the ideal of a unified body of knowledge accessible to all. The two speakers, between them, will cover the impact of the man and his work on science and scientists as well as on the way performance in science is evaluated. We will also get to hear about how Garfield evolved from humble beginnings to a businessman, scholar and a polymath. Come and listen to the fascinating story of the man whose creations have transformed the fabric of science.

Talks:

“ In Quest of the World Brain: The Life and Work of the Pragmatic Polymath Eugene Garfield”

 by David A. Pendlebury

“Eugene Garfield and His Impact on Science and Scientists” by P. Balaram

About the speakers:

David A. Pendlebury joined the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now Clarivate Analytics, in 1983. He began as a translator and indexer and later worked with ISI’s founder Eugene Garfield on personal research projects. Until June 2004, Pendlebury was Manager of the department’s contract research services. He has served as Consulting Citation Analyst for Clarivate Analytics since 2006.

  1. Balaram is a former Director of Indian Institute of Science and a former Editor of Current Science. He is currently Emeritus Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, and DST Year of Science Chair Professor, NCBS, Bengaluru.

All are Welcome

Event Poster: E.Garfield and Scientometrics

Panel Discussion on “Institutional Open Access Policy”, 27 Oct 2017

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Panel Discussion on “Institutional Open Access Policy”, 27 Oct 2017

Panel Discussion on “Institutional Open Access Policy”, 27 Oct 2017 

Dear all,

The DST-Centre for Policy Research at Indian Institute of Science is pleased to invite you to the

Panel Discussion

on 

“Institutional Open Access Policy”

What Universities and Administrators Can Do to Promote Open Access?

Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science

 27 Oct 2017 (Friday) | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Open Access seeks to return scholarly publishing to its original purpose: to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon.  Price barriers should not prevent students, researchers (or anyone) from getting access to research they need. Open Access, and the open availability and searchability of scholarly research that it entails, will have a significant positive impact on everything from education to the practice of medicine to the ability of entrepreneurs to innovate.

Panelists 

Prof. Satyajit Mayor (Director, The National Centre for Biological Sciences)

Prof. Jayant M. Modak (Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Science)

Mr. Sunil Abraham (Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society)

Dr. Padmini Ray Murray (Vice-Chair, Global Outlook: Digital Humanities)

Mr. N V Sathyanarayana (Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics India Ltd)

Mr. Madhan Muthu (Visiting Scientist, DST-Centre for Policy Research, IISc)

All are Welcome

T. A. Abinandanan

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T. A. Abinandanan

T. A. Abinandanan

Professor
abinand@iisc.ac.in

Prof. Abinandanan is the Coordinator of the DST-Centre for Policy Research and a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at IISc. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1991 in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. After a post-doctoral stint in France, he has been on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Science since 1993.