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An attempt to analyse the pattern of organic chemistry papers in national and international journals was made in this article. We have reviewed the papers published in various subject areas and presented our findings. There is a growing interest in publishing papers in heterocyclic compared to other areas. There is a need for publishing more review papers in fundamental areas in the frontier research segment particularly to benefit the university teachers. We also have analysed the trend of the researchers and their papers. It was found that there is more enthusiasm to publish papers in higher ranking international journals than the premier journals like IJC(B). The neglect of national journals would hurt the research in the country. Effective uses of new synthetic methodologies involving metal catalysed reactions are found in international publications. However, development of new methodologies, new reagents and serious structure-activity relationship in medicinal chemistry were not visible in the research papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose a framework score to see how Indian universities and research-focused institutions fare in the world of high-end research in terms of excellence and diversity of their research base. For this we use a web application available in the public domain which visualizes scientific excellence worldwide in several subject areas. Only in 15 subject areas does India have a presence among global institutions in the 22 areas in which there are at least 50 institutes globally that have published more than 500 papers. The country has no institution which can be counted globally in seven areas: arts and humanities; business, management and accounting; health professions; neuroscience; nursing; psychology, and social sciences. India's research base is completely skewed towards the physical sciences and engineering with very little for biological sciences and medicine, and virtually none in social sciences, and arts and humanities when excellence at the highest level is considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, the University Grants Commission, India has provided a structure of the model curriculum for B Sc (Honours) programme in Microbiology. It is based on the choice-based credit system pattern aiming to improve the academic standards and quality of microbiology education in the country. The structure of the programme has been divided into core courses, discipline-centric elective courses, generic electives, ability enhancement compulsory courses and skill enhancement elective courses. Most of the basic papers related to microbiology are well covered under the core courses and care has been taken to include the recently published books as references. However, certain terms that could bring confusion among the teachers and students have been included, and some topics that are important to microbiology are missing. The subject contents offered under the generic electives seem to be mere repetition of the core courses. Here, I provide a few suggestions to improve the standards of the above-mentioned programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]