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For Deans of R&D · NIRF & NAAC Criterion III Ready

University Research
Management Software (RIMS)

Track every grant from DST proposal to utilization certificate. Aggregate faculty publications with verified Scopus citations. Monitor patents from filing to commercialization. Follow PhD scholars from registration to viva. One NIRF-ready system for India's research institutions.

DST · SERB · UGC · AICTE Grants Scopus & Web of Science Citations h-index Auto-Calculation Patent Filing to Commercialization NIRF RP One-Click Export
₹12.5 Cr Active Grants Tracked
1,450+ Publications Indexed
42 Patents Filed
Zero Manual NIRF Compilation
7 Days Average Go-Live
Funding Agencies Tracked in CampusAlly
🏛️ DST 🔬 SERB 📚 UGC ⚙️ AICTE 🧬 ICMR 🌱 DBT 💊 DRDO 🏗️ Industry MoUs 🌍 International Grants 🏦 Internal Seed Money
The Research Data Problem

Why NIRF and NAAC submissions cause so much pain every year

  • 📊 Faculty publications collected over email — no way to verify CGPA, impact factor, or citation counts
  • 💰 Multiple DST/SERB grants tracked in separate Excel sheets — utilization certificates compiled manually before every audit
  • 🔬 PhD scholar progress tracked informally — no record of DC meetings, coursework, or submission dates
  • 📜 Patent statuses updated via word of mouth — no central record of filing dates, legal fees, or grant status
  • 📈 NIRF RP data compiled from 12 different sources across departments — weeks of work every January

CampusAlly RIMS resolves all of this

  • Publications self-submitted by faculty, verified against Scopus/Web of Science via API — no unverified claims
  • All grants in one dashboard — fund tranches, budget heads, and utilization certificates generated automatically
  • PhD scholars tracked end-to-end — DC meetings, coursework, progress reports, fee — one record per scholar
  • Patent lifecycle tracked digitally — filing to commercialization, legal costs, and licensing revenue
  • NIRF RP export generated in one click — grants, publications, patents, PhDs, h-index — all from live data
Complete RIMS Platform

The complete research lifecycle — tracked in one system

From the first grant proposal to the last PhD thesis — every research activity at your institution, documented and NIRF-ready.

Faculty Publications & Citation Analytics

Faculty Publication Repository Scopus
Institutional Publication Repository

Build a single verified record of your institution's entire research output — journals, conferences, book chapters — accessible to NAAC committees and NIRF submissions without last-minute compilation.

  • Structured Publication Records — Each paper tagged with journal name, ISSN, impact factor, quartile (Q1–Q4), Scopus/WoS indexing status, DOI, and publication date. Searchable by faculty, department, or year.
  • Scopus & Web of Science API Integration — Citation counts and h-index fetched directly from Scopus and Web of Science APIs. Faculty cannot self-report inflated citation numbers — verified data only.
  • h-index Auto-Calculation — Institutional, departmental, and individual faculty h-index calculated and updated automatically as citations are pulled from indexing databases.
  • Proof Storage — Secure cloud storage for paper PDFs, acceptance letters, and journal proofs. Accessible to NAAC auditors without needing to chase faculty for documents.
  • Faculty Self-Service with Verification — Faculty submit new publications through their portal. HOD or R&D Cell verifies before adding to the official institutional record.
Patent IPR Management University
Patents & IPR Management

Track every patent your institution files — from the first invention disclosure to commercialization. All legal costs, filing milestones, and licensing revenues in one record.

  • End-to-End Patent Workflow — Track status through every stage: Invention Disclosure → Patent Filed → Published → Under Examination → Granted → Commercialized. Each transition timestamped.
  • Legal Fee and Expense Log — Record attorney fees, filing charges, and renewal costs per patent. Full financial record for each IPR asset — required for institutional audits.
  • Technology Transfer Tracking — Log licensing agreements, royalty terms, and revenue received from technology transfers. Track which patents are generating income for the institution.
  • NAAC & NIRF Evidence — Patent filings and grants feed directly into NAAC Criterion III and NIRF RP data — no separate compilation required at submission time.

Research Grant Lifecycle Management

DST SERB UGC Grant Management
External Grant Portfolio — DST, SERB, UGC & More

Stop managing grant documents in email threads and personal folders. CampusAlly gives every funded project a complete digital record — from proposal submission to final audit.

  • Pre-Award Tracking — Log proposal submissions to DST, SERB, UGC, AICTE, ICMR, DBT, and DRDO. Track agency deadlines, review feedback, and resubmission timelines from one dashboard.
  • Post-Award Fund Disbursement — Record fund tranches received from agencies. Track budget utilization across heads — Equipment, Travel, Manpower, Consumables, Overhead — with real-time balance visibility per head.
  • Utilization Certificates (UC) Auto-Generation — Generate audit-ready Utilization Certificates (UC) and Statements of Expenditure (SoE) for every grant — required for tranche release and project closure submissions to funding agencies.
  • Budget Expiry Alerts — Automatic alerts 60 days before a grant's project end date or budget exhaustion. Principal Investigators can re-allocate or request extensions before funds lapse.
  • Grant-Equipment Inventory Link — Equipment purchased under a grant is tagged to the grant project ID in the inventory module — creating an auditable link between expenditure and assets.
Internal Seed Money Research Grants
Internal Seed Money Management

Build a research culture by managing your institution's internal funding programmes with the same rigour as external grants — proposals, peer review, milestone disbursement, and impact tracking.

  • Call for Proposals — Launch internal grant schemes online — faculty submit proposals through a structured digital form. Deadline management and eligibility criteria configured by the R&D Cell.
  • Blind Peer Review Committee — Assign internal or external reviewers to evaluate proposals via the platform. Reviewers score against a configured rubric — scores aggregated for committee decision-making.
  • Milestone-Based Fund Release — Funds disbursed in tranches tied to deliverable milestones. Next instalment released only when the progress report for the previous milestone is submitted and approved.
  • Project Output Tracking — Track publications, patents, or student training outcomes linked to seed money projects — measuring return on internal research investment.

PhD Scholar Tracking & Research Analytics

PhD Scholar Progress Tracking
PhD Scholar Management

Research scholars fall through administrative cracks across their 3–5 year journey — missed DC meetings, incomplete coursework, delayed submissions. CampusAlly keeps every scholar on track.

  • Scholar Registration & Profile — Complete record per scholar — supervisor, co-supervisor, research area, funding (fellowship/institute scholarship), and registration date. Linked to payroll for stipend management.
  • Doctoral Committee (DC) Meeting Management — Schedule DC meetings, send automated reminders, record minutes and recommendations digitally. Six-monthly progress review cycle tracked end-to-end.
  • Coursework & Credit Tracking — Track mandatory coursework completion, credit requirements, and course grades per scholar — flagging those who haven't fulfilled prerequisites before thesis submission.
  • Progress Report & Viva Milestones — Configure milestone timeline for each scholar: coursework → synopsis → pre-submission seminar → thesis submission → viva-voce. Alerts when a milestone is overdue.
  • Research Scholar Fee Management — Semester fees for PhD and M.Phil scholars tracked separately from regular student fees. Integration with the main fee and finance module.
Research Analytics Dashboard NIRF
Research Analytics & Collaboration Map

Give the Dean of R&D and university management the research visibility they need — real data, not reports compiled over two weeks every NIRF season.

  • Institution & Department h-index Dashboard — Institutional, college-wide, and department-level h-index tracked and updated automatically from Scopus/Web of Science API data. Historical trend graphs show year-on-year research impact growth.
  • Collaboration Network Map — Visualize inter-departmental collaborations, international co-author connections, and industry research partnerships. Identifies faculty with the broadest collaboration networks.
  • Funding Pipeline Visibility — Total active grant value, funds utilised vs. remaining, upcoming renewal deadlines, and agencies with pending proposals — all on one dashboard for the Dean of R&D.
  • NIRF RP One-Click Export — Generate the complete NIRF Research and Professional Practice (RP) parameter data — external grants, publications, patents filed/granted, PhD output, consultancy — in NIRF submission format. What used to take weeks now takes minutes.
Patent Lifecycle Tracking

Every stage of your patent's journey — tracked automatically

From the first invention disclosure to licensing revenue — CampusAlly logs every milestone, cost, and status update.

1
Invention Disclosure

Faculty submits invention details. R&D Cell evaluates novelty and patentability.

2
Application Filed

Patent application submitted to Indian Patent Office or international. Filing date and application number logged.

3
Published

Patent published in official gazette. Publication number recorded. Legal fees logged.

4
Examination

Examiner's objections tracked. Responses and hearing dates managed in the workflow.

5
Granted

Grant date, renewal calendar, and total cost-to-grant recorded per patent.

6
Commercialized

Licensing terms, technology transfer agreements, and royalty revenue tracked for institutional income.

Who Uses CampusAlly Research Module

Built for everyone who manages university research

🏛️
Dean of Research / R&D Cell
No real-time visibility into the institution's total research output and grant portfolio

Live dashboard shows active grant value, h-index trends, patents in pipeline, and PhD scholar status — without waiting for department-level reports.

🔬
Principal Investigator (PI)
Manually tracking grant fund utilization across budget heads — UC compilation takes days before every audit

Real-time fund utilization dashboard per grant head. UC and SoE generated automatically when the reporting period closes. PI spends time on research, not paperwork.

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IQAC / NAAC Coordinator
Criterion III research data scattered across departments before every accreditation visit

All research output — grants, publications, patents, PhD output, consultancy revenue — centralized and exported in NAAC Criterion III format with one click. Audit-ready year-round.

🎓
PhD Supervisors
Scholar progress tracked informally — DC meeting minutes in personal files, coursework in emails

CampusAlly gives supervisors a structured view of every scholar's milestone progress. DC meeting records, progress reports, and thesis submission dates all documented digitally.

👨‍🔬
Faculty Researchers
Manually building CVs for promotions and grant applications — no central record of publications and grants

Faculty's complete research profile — verified publications, grant history, patents, and citations — available from their portal. Downloadable as a formatted research CV for promotion dossiers.

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Management / Registrar
NIRF RP data compilation starts in December and takes 3–4 weeks of departmental coordination

NIRF RP data export generated from live institutional records in minutes. Historical comparison with previous years built in — no manual aggregation across schools or departments.

NIRF & NAAC rankings are built on research data

NIRF's Research and Professional Practice (RP) parameter accounts for a significant share of your ranking score. NAAC Criterion III covers research, innovation, and extension. CampusAlly generates both reports from live data — no annual data hunt, no last-minute panic.

NIRF RP Data Export NAAC Criterion III Documentation Scopus-Verified Publications Grant Utilization Certificates Patent Portfolio Evidence PhD Output Data
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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions from Deans of R&D & IQAC coordinators

A university Research Information Management System (RIMS) is centralized software that tracks the complete research lifecycle for a college — including external grant management (DST, SERB, UGC), faculty publication repositories with Scopus/Web of Science citation verification, patent and IPR tracking, PhD scholar progress monitoring, and NIRF/NAAC research documentation. CampusAlly's RIMS is built specifically for Indian higher education institutions.
Yes. CampusAlly integrates via API with Scopus and Web of Science to automatically fetch citation counts, h-index, and publication metadata for faculty profiles. This eliminates self-reporting of inflated citation numbers — only verified, database-confirmed data enters the institutional record. This verified data feeds directly into NAAC and NIRF submissions.
CampusAlly covers the full grant lifecycle. Pre-award: proposal submissions, deadlines, and agency feedback tracked for DST, SERB, UGC, AICTE, ICMR, and DBT. Post-award: fund disbursement tranches, real-time budget head tracking (equipment, travel, manpower, consumables), and automatic generation of Utilization Certificates (UC) and Statements of Expenditure (SoE) for audits and renewal applications.
Yes. CampusAlly generates a one-click export of all data required for NIRF's Research and Professional Practice (RP) parameter — total external grants received, publications in Scopus/WoS indexed journals, patents filed and granted, PhD scholars enrolled and awarded, consultancy revenues, and institutional h-index. This eliminates the 3–4 week manual data compilation that precedes every NIRF submission.
CampusAlly tracks the complete patent lifecycle: Invention Disclosure → Patent Filed → Published → Under Examination → Granted → Commercialized. Each stage transition is timestamped. Legal fees and filing costs are logged per patent. Technology transfer agreements and royalty revenues are recorded once commercialized. All data feeds into NAAC Criterion III and NIRF RP submissions.
CampusAlly monitors research scholars from registration to viva-voce. It schedules Doctoral Committee (DC) meetings, records minutes and action items digitally, tracks mandatory coursework completion and credit fulfillment, manages six-monthly progress report submissions, and sends milestone alerts when a scholar's progress has stalled. Research scholar fees are tracked separately through the fee and finance module.
Yes. CampusAlly manages university-funded internal research programmes — launching calls for proposals, structured online applications by faculty, blind peer review scoring, proposal approval, and milestone-based fund disbursement (next tranche released only when the previous progress report is submitted). Project output — publications, patents, student outcomes — tracked against each seed money project.
Yes. CampusAlly integrates with the inventory module. Equipment purchased under a grant is tagged with the grant project ID — tracked through procurement, GRN, and depreciation. This creates an auditable chain between the grant's expenditure record and the physical asset — required for DST/SERB/UGC utilization audits and NAAC documentation.
Yes. Faculty have self-service logins to submit new publications — journals, conferences, and book chapters — through their CampusAlly portal. Each submission goes through a verification workflow: reviewed and approved by the Head of Department or R&D Cell coordinator before being added to the official institutional record. Scopus/WoS API cross-checks claimed citations automatically.
Ready to centralize your research data?

Make your institution's research visible — and NIRF-ready, year-round.

See CampusAlly Research Management in a 30-minute demo — grant tracking, Scopus integration, PhD workflow, and NIRF export included. No commitment required.