PAU Tops Among Indian Agricultural Universities

Ludhiana, May 15, 2015: According to the recent countrywide survey carried out by Indian citation Index (ICI), New Delhi, the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has emerged as numero uno farm varsity in the country based on its quality research publications. The quality has been determined based on the parameters such as articles published, their citation by other researchers and the citation index. As per the ICI database as on September 2014, PAU published 4063 articles, their citation was in 2063 articles and the cited articles were 962. The farm university following PAU at number two is Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore.

The PAU Vice Chancellor, Dr Baldev Singh Dhillon, while congratulating the faculty for this meritorious distinction, expressed, “The University holds a trailblazing place among all the agricultural universities in the country due to its high standards of agricultural research, education and technology transfer.”