The research centers at JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) focus on finding solutions to disruptive interdisciplinary / cross-disciplinary research problems that will have a significant societal and/or economic impact. Through its extensive network of highly skilled research faculty and scientists, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and collaborators, the University is working towards advancing research by funding growth, creating unique research training opportunities, and increasing its competitiveness for externally funded program project and grants.

A Research Development Cell (RDC) has been established with the Vice Chancellor as the Chairman and the Pro Vice Chancellors, the Deans of Faculty, Directors of the Research Centers, and eminent experts as members. The RDC oversees the research activities undertaken at the University level. The RDC has created Research Development Units (RDU) in each faculty. The RDUs are headed by the concerned deans and consists of all heads of departments in the faculty, professors, and external experts in the chosen research domain. The RDC also oversees the Ph.D. programs of the University and coordinates the activities of the research centers. The major and minor research projects that are proposed by the faculty are scrutinized by the concerned RDUs and subsequently, approved by the RDC and forwarded to the concerned sponsoring agencies. In-house projects are reviewed by the RDUs and recommended to the RDC for approval. The University sets aside a portion of its budget for such in-house research projects. The approved project coordinators are required to submit biannual reports to the concerned RDUs. The RDC conducts workshops and seminars on research methods at regular intervals for faculty and research students.

The following are a few of the salient features of the research policy:

• Provide optimum facilities to researchers
• Purchase equipment, upgrade labs, and subscribe e-journals
• Create national facilities like the coating lab, the Underwriters Laboratory for fire testing and a survey research center
• Initiated the establishment of an instrumentation center
• Implemented the UGC regulation 2016 & 2018 for Ph.D.
• Collaborated with research institutions
• Created the position of a Dean for Research to coordinate research activities

The University believes in promoting interdisciplinary research programs. It has collaborations with national/international research institutions of excellence for execution of research projects. Most of these are interdisciplinary in nature. The University also has multidisciplinary research projects. Enlisted below are the collaborations of the University. The University has initiated projects on snake venom and biofuels.

All the constituent units have state-of-the-art research facilities that are used by the students. The researchers are also provided with library facilities and internet access to pursue their research work. Establishing new facilities and upgrading the existing ones is a continuous process.

The university has well-equipped labs and research centers and have separate cabins for faculty with computers and internet facility, and software packages like SPSS and Microsoft for database analysis, etc. Also equipped with Wi-Fi, online journals, e-books, and international and national journals. Out of mutual interest, research institutes like IISc, RRI, NAL, and CSIR have extended their facility to JAIN (Deemed-to-be University).

The postgraduate department laboratories are equipped with the most advanced equipment to suit additional academic and research needs of students pursuing their masters and Ph.D. degrees. The undergraduate labs are well equipped to carry out research projects. The University also has a well-resourced library, internet, computers in every department, and audio-visual facility to pursue research. To help our researcher, we also have the following:

• Thinklet, an e-journal of research activities
• Interlibrary loan facility
• Research retreat
• Research conclave
• Permission to visit research centers to make use of available facilities
• Sophisticated research equipment, and
• Initiative to establish a nodal research center

Research Policy - View Document

Guidelines for Minor Research Project - View Document

Guidelines for Financial Support for Professional Development - View Document

UG & PG Research - View Document

Research Methodology & Research Ethics - View Document

Plagiarism

To uphold the integrity of research conducted by scholars and maintain the credibility of the university, the CRTA implemented a plagiarism check as part of the thesis submission process following the pre-submission colloquium presentation. This assessment is conducted using Turnitin software. As per university guidelines, a similarity index of up to 10% is deemed acceptable. Submissions exceeding this threshold must be revised and resubmitted for re-evaluation until they meet the prescribed passing criteria. It is important to note that the initial pages, list of tables, figures, abbreviations, literature review, bibliography, and appendices/publications are excluded from the plagiarism check.

Publication Guidelines

• Every scholar is required to publish a minimum of two research papers in journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, or in journals approved by the University, before the submission of the thesis. In each publication, the scholar must be the first author, and the research supervisor may be listed as the second or corresponding author.
• In all such publications, the scholar's affiliation must be clearly mentioned as JAIN (Deemed-to-be University). Publications that do not include this institutional affiliation will not be considered as part of the scholar's research output.

Incubation Centre

• JAIN University Incubation Center (JAIN Launchpad)

Entrepreneurship Cell

• Chenraj Roychand Center for Entrepreneurship (CREC)

Note : * Figures are based on current records and may change as research outputs are updated