  Scientific contribution and research performance of a university, research
group, or institute needs to be evaluated all the more with the increasing
volume and fast-developing disciplines of research. The need of the time is to
develop tools for strategic planning and management that will help research
bodies to rank and benchmark themselves against international standards. This
will enable them to invest appropriately in research areas of promising
strength and gain maximally from them, thus fulfilling the ultimate purpose of
positive impact of research on society. Our tool is capable of rating and
benchmarking universities as well as research institutes in not only the major
disciplines and sub-disciplines, but at the finest level of niche areas of
science and technology too with the help of its innovative bibliometric
indicators based on publications and citation analysis. The tool accepts inputs
like discipline/subject area, university, and country and time window while
using data retrieved from bibliography database, Scopus, to benchmark and rate
the research body under consideration. We have evaluated that there are many
niche subject areas in which small or medium size universities are performing
good in comparison to the large universities. Most of these subject areas are
of more significance in the present day and the future. Government and funds
allocating bodies should take this factor in account that investing the right
money at right place will give far better results than we they are having right
now
