mangaluru the share of research publications by a higher education institute in academic journals play a key role in determining its eminence the national institute of technology surathkal has now indexed more than 10000 publications in scopus largest abstract and citation database of peerreviewed literature scientific journals books and conference proceedings this year the faculty at the nitk have published 803 papers in scopus and 337 papers in web of science wos a web portal that provides access to multiple citation databases nitk has also taken significant steps to support faculty members in their endeavour to publish in highly rated journals improving the research visibility of the institute giving details mallikarjun angadi a librarian at the institute said the first paper of nitk surathkal was published in scopus as early as in 1968 it took about 49 years to reach 5000 publications in 2017 after that it took only five years to hit 10000 publications which was achieved this october authors of the published research papers include both students and faculty of nitk surathkal this shows importance given to research activities at the campus said angadi during the last five years 1150 papers were published every year on an average angadi also pointed out that scopus publications have shown that nitk surathkal is on par with not just nits but also iits in the country