UGC Chetana webinar on research citations on May 31

NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to organise a webinar on “InCites- Citation-based intelligence for research performance evaluation” on May 31. Senior solutions consultant at Clarivate, Subhasree Nag will conduct the online lecture at 9:45 am. This lecture is part of an online lecture series “Best practices in higher education”, which began in April 2022.

All interested students can attend the online lecture through multiple social media platforms: YouTube, Twitter and FaceBook handles of UGC. The online lecture will be broadcast live on social media platforms, and a recorded video will be available and shared through LinkedIn as well. All students unable to attend online lectures in real time can access the recordings on YouTube.

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As per the YouTube page of UGC, as many as 22 online lectures have been conducted previously. According to a UGC notice, the online lecture series is conducted with the aim of inviting speakers from different institutions to share best practices in higher education as per their institutions. UGC has stressed that higher education institutions have specific criteria of “instruction, research and extension” that should be accessible to the public.

UGC currently conducts online lectures on this series each month. Some of the previous lectures included topics including “Transforming our rural areas: Skill creation and rural industrialisation”, and “The Intersection of Mathematics and Deep Learning (Machine Learning)”, etc.