Over 280 academic research publications from JGLS make it to Scopus in 2020-21

More than 280 academic research publications by the faculty members of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) in Haryana’s Sonipat have made their way to Scopus, one of the largest databases of peer-reviewed literature, in 2020-21, the law college stated in a press communique recently.

Scopus is a database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It covers academic research in the field of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.

C Raj Kumar, founding dean, JGLS, extending his compliments to all faculty members who contributed to this significant accomplishment, said, “This is an extraordinary feat by the Jindal Global Law School. Getting more than 280 articles published in reputed journals is an outstanding achievement for a young law school that is just 12 years old.”

An analysis of the Scopus database, managed by Elsevier publishing house, reveals that each of the 23 National Law Universities (NLUs) in India published six research papers on an average in Scopus in 2020-21, JGLS said in a statement.

However, the founding dean of JGLS admitted that a large number of research work published in reputed journals may not be indexed in SCOPUS.

“I feel this is an important day in the Indian legal research and education sector where the overall Indian knowledge ecosystem stands to benefit greatly from this achievement,” he said.

Sreejith SG, executive dean, JGLS, stated that, Faculty members of JGLS, said that many of the publications responded to the questions the world had on the sustenance during the COVID-19 pandemic and rediscovering the post-pandemic world.

This achievement is the result of consciously evolved policies and practises that have systematically prioritised faculty research, created an enabling environment for research and carefully guarded research space and time of JGLS faculty members, the law school said in its statement.

JGLS has also set up a dedicated Research Deans' Office under the leadership of Dipika Jain, vice-dean (Research) and associate deans (Research) Shivprasad Swaminathan and Albeena Shakil. This facility has organised several faculty research seminars and faculty research colloquia for discussing the working papers of faculty members during the pandemic.

“As a research-centric institution, we identified research initiatives which brought together scholars presently at different points of their intellectual journey into the collegial enterprise of supporting each other's research. We motivated our colleagues to unfold their thoughts and enabled the younger ones by collaborating and deliberating on the art and joy of critical reading, thinking, and writing,” said Jain.