This Briefly Speaking looks into how the Research Output Policy (DHET, 2015) is being implemented and the implications thereof. This policy, like the Policy and Procedures for the Measurement of Research Outputs of Public Higher Education Institutions (DoE, 2003), which it replaced, seeks to promote research productivity in public higher education institutions by rewarding research outputs in the form of articles published in recognised scholarly journals, published scholarly books and/or book chapters, and published conference proceedings. Rewarding the research outputs takes the form of allocating and disbursing research subsidy or incentive funds to the public higher education institutions for the research output units published annually. 

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