What ails AMU?
Recent incidents of violence on the campus have generated a lot of debate within and outside the university about the state of academic standards at AMU. Many people have argued that these incidents point to the falling academic standards. Are the standards really falling or it is only a perception? To answer this question and also to find where AMU stands vis-à-vis BHU, I have collected information about the research output, the number of sanctioned teaching posts and student enrollment at the two universities. The data on the number of papers published have been retrieved from ‘Scopus’, the Abstract and Citation Database of Elsevier B.V. (Amsterdam). The database covers more than 15100 peer-reviewed scientific, technical, medical and social science journals, including more than 180 good quality Indian journals. Elsevier has its own criteria for selecting journals for including them in the database. So, not all journals are covered by the database and thus the figures given in the fol
