>>12632999>compared to even other southeast asian institutions? From what I can find online, profs at Indian institutes don't publish much and when they do they receive low citation counts.Hey, I'm am a PhD student in a US university, and I grew up in India. It's a combination of brain drain, funding, culture, and the network effect.
(1) Brain drain: Most people worth their salt move to foreign universities after undergrad. As a result, most of the graduate-level talent left in Indian universities is either low-quality or too poor to afford higher education. Both of these make high quality research impossible
(2) Funding: Indian research funding is abysmal. Coupled with the widespread corruption in the funding institutions, it makes it impossible to try anything which needs a non-trivial amount of resources.
(3) Culture: Even the best professors are not really well-respected, and have shit salaries to the point where they can't send their children to the same schools they attended. If you are any good as a researcher, there is a strong incentive to move away.
(4) Network Effect: Graduate student success depends heavily on a strong pre-existing network of talent and mentorship. This takes time to build up, and most Indian universities are relatively new.
Overall, the reasons are complicated and rooted in a history of poverty and corruption. India has a wealth of incredibly smart people, but it doesn't have the infrastructure, mentorship, and job opportunities to support them yet. I think it will get better with time, especially since they are collaborating a lot more with industrial labs like MSR and Google Research a lot now
