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Another significant achievement in research and scholarly activities was the submission of two
national level patent applications to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Oman and one

international patent to South African Patent Agency. Also, the University has provided 3 major
paid consultancy service to the Industry over past 5 years. However, the voluntary consultancy

has been provided by our faculty members to relevant industries from time to time. The table 4
provides the summary of the aforementioned activities.

Table 4: Summary of Research Activities/Achievements over past five years

Year 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Research Publications/Conferences/Workshop/Exhibitions
No. of Publications (Books, Book 78 192 164 175 160
Chapters, Journal Papers)
No. of 74 54 81 74 133
Conferences/Workshops/Exhibitions
Attended
DU Internal Grants
No. of Faculty Research Papers 23 85 91 77 45
published in Scopus/ Web of Science/
AJHL Awarded Incentives by DU

No. of National/International 34 15 23 20 21
Conferences funded by DU

Research Budget
Budget allocated for Research activities 30,000 40,000 41,000 47,000 50,000
(OMR)

TRC Grants
Total no. of TRC Faculty Research 11 14 5 5 52
Grants*
Total no. of TRC Student Research 7 14 24 14 10
Grants*
Awards/Patents/Consultancy
No. of National/International Research 0 7 6 16 12
Awards won by Faculty
No. of National/International Research 0 2 6 7 6
Awards won by Students
Patents & Consultancy 0 2 1 2 1

Workshops/seminars on Professional Development for Research
Total no. of Workshops/seminars on 7 6 4 2 5
Professional Development for Research
organized by DU/TRC
ResearchGate

ResearchGate Score 209 514.34 930 1056.99 1152.36**

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