Faculty Research Awards 2018 were awarded to academic researchers across 24 disciplines by the Indian Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar on 20 March in New Delhi. [1] The awards were hosted by news magazine Careers360. [2] The awards recognize the efforts of those in the field of academic research in India. [3] The award carries a cash prize and a citation.
The awardees were chosen on the basis of their academic and research output in Scopus indexed journals, citation index and h-index for the period 2015–17. [4]
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