Publications - Saveetha Dental College

No: of Publications

With 65250+ Published articles in SCOPUS®, SDC stands 1st among all dental colleges in the world! Our college has more publications than many 100-year-old legacy institutions like the University of North Carolina, UCLA, etc. Currently, we are only outranked by Harvard, Michigan, Kings College London, Acta, and Tokyo Dental College.

Apart from this, we have over 8000 publications in various other citation databases. Saveetha is the pioneer in undergraduate publications. Each undergraduate published around 5-10 papers before they graduate. Furthermore, our UG’s have won the IADR Hatton Award, published with IF up to 2.9, and achieved up to 23 publications by a single student.

High Impact Publications

It’s not just quantity, our publications have tremendous achievements in quality as well. We have published over 1480 publications with an IF of 3 or more. We are the only dental college with 15 Nature publications. Last year alone, our cumulative impact factor of all our departments was 1480. Furthermore, in 2021 the department of pharmacology enjoyed the highest impact factor of 845 for all articles published within the specified time period. The Department of Biochemistry stood second with a cumulative impact factor of 298. This shows how close the competition, and the level of excellence is between the departments.

H Index

Our dental college has a Scopus H index of 141 and a WOS H index of 110. This is arguably one of the highest in the country. we have more than 100 publications with over 200 citations showing the remarkable impact of our research.

Projects - Saveetha Dental College

Government Sponsored Projects

Saveetha has a credible name in the field of research among various funding agencies. This year we received over 20 crores of grants from DST, DBT< SERB, DRDO, ICMR etc. The Institutes Hands-off policy with numerous supportive capital investments make SDC an ideal bed for aspiring researcher. Our White lab, Pink lab, Gold lab and DRC , STC are centres of excellence with spectacular achievements.

Private Sponsored Projects

We rich community and network of sponsored projectors from various national and international agencies. From international university funding for rehabilitation of poor communities to massive materials testing agencies have collaborate with us over the years and have made significant contribution to our research expenditure.

Institution Sponsored Projects

Our college promotes an active research environment by supporting researcher to visit conferences, purchases of co-sponsored equipments, project funding development, content development, administrative time management etc. This year we have spent over 12 crores for this entity alone!

Patents - Saveetha Dental College

Patents Filed

Saveetha Dental College has the 3rd highest number of patents filed by a single institute in 2019. This is featured in the times Educations Newspaper.

Its unimaginable for a single dental college to rank 3rd after two universities, namely IIT and Amity University.

IIT ( All over India) : 540 Patents filed in 2018.

Amity : 119 Patents filed in 2018.

Saveetha Dental College 118 Patents filed-2018.

Patents Published

We have published over 512 Patents over the past 5 years. We are ranked as the No: 1 Dental college with the highest number of patents.

https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/highlights-indias-ip-office-annual-report-2017-2018

Products Developed

We dont do patents for namesake. Infact our active incubation centre has worked very hard with various vendors and developers to translate the patents into products. We have sold over 15 Lakhs worth good and services based on our patents. Saveetha has become a role model in research translation from the bench to the lab to the factor to the market.

Amazon Link - Sale of our Patented Products

https://www.amazon.in/s?k=SPICE+by+Saveetha&ref=bl_dp_s_web_0

Research Labs

BRULAC

Biomedical Research Unit and Lab Animal Research Centre

DRC

Dental Research Cell - Dental StemCell Culture Lab

White LAB

India’s Most Advanced Dental Material Testing Centre

Research Translation

Patents Products Developed

The Institution invested commendable resources into translating a patents into a rich product.

Patented Products Sold

Research translated into commercial products is a hall mark of showing the external validity of a patent. We have over 43 patents translated into products sold in Amazon.

Patents Licensed

Our Indigenous Software Systems have been licensed to Viana Soft Technologies to offer SAS services to other dental Schools.

Research Curriculum

STAR SUMMIT

Saveetha Transdisciplinary Annual Research Summit, is a 6 day long research gala celebration where Under graduates, Post graduates of all years proudly present their research projects in a grant stage. 1900 posters from a single college across 6 days makes it such a feast for all students to analyse and learn from each other. This is an extraordinary example of integration of research into our curriculum.

UG Research

Each Undergraduate carries out upto 8 projects a year. They may range from surveys to advanced molecular analysis. Our curriculum is designed to incorporate 100 marks for formative evaluation of in each subject. Such a powerful integration of research into the FA of each subject promotes an extraordinarily enriched environment unlike anything else in the world! Our record for a single UG with maximum publications is 24 and the record breaking publication among UG’s in quality is IF 3.89. This is remarkable considering that most professor in 10 years are not able to achieve these metrics.

PG Research

Each Post Graduate participates in 5 short term projects and 1 thesis for the final exam. This translates into 15 publications before they graduate making them more employable in academic circles. With advanced govertment funding extablished labs, our students are achieving great strides in research. Furthermore, many of our PG’s also visit abroad for 3-6 weeks to perform research with leading universities like Seoul National University, University of North Carolina etc. This has translated into many high impact publications.

Ph.D Research

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Consultancy

International Consultancy Programs

Saveetha Dental College has been the Universal service provider to offer training for professionals from Australia since 2014. In the past 5 years over 200+ experienced Australian dental practitioners have visited India and participated in our advanced clinical training programs in Implantology, Impactions and Microendodontics. These programs have generated massive consultancy revenue that have contributed to the establishment of numerous research labs and upgrading of our existing infrastructure.

Educational Consultancy

Saveetha Dental College has been the pioneer in introducing numerous educational innovations in the field of dentistry in India. Some of our major initiatives that have spread across India include,

• Introduction of Systematic Review into PG curriculum,

• Comprehensive Clinical Dentistry

• 9 Additional Subjects in BD

Over 9 Institutions have signed MOU’s with us to adopt and execute our protocols in their respective colleges. The following institutions visited Saveetha and have adopted many of our systems.

• Vishnu Dental College, Bhimavaram , Andhra Pradesh

• Krishna Deva Raya Dental College, Bangalore, Karnataka

• Amrita Institute of Dentistry, Kochi, Kerala

• PMS Dental College, Trivandrum, Kerala 

• Babu Banarasi Das College of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

• ITS Dental College, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh

• DY Patil Dental College, Pune, Maharashtra

• Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, (DIMS), Wardha, Maharashtra

Product Consultancy

Apartment from small products created and sold from our rich patent profile, we offer software as a service consultancy from our indigenous products. The two major software service products developed by Saveetha include, ARMS ( Academic Record Management System) and DIAS ( Dental Information Archival System).

Global Footprint

A research project is not considered complete until it is presented in a

reputed platform and receives international recognition.

IADR Conference 2016 - Seoul, South Korea

136 Student and faculty delegates visited IADR in Seoul South Korea. Here our students presented various papers and posters on clinical trials . For the first time int he 95 year history of IADR a single institution won 5 prizes.

IADR Conference 2017 - San Francisco, CA, USA

93 Student and Faculty delegates visited IADR and AAID joint general Sessions in San Francisco. Our students wont he prestigious Hatton Award and also the Cariology Award cash prize of 5000 dollars.

IADR Conference 2018 - London, UK

89 Student and faculty delegates participated in the IADR conference in London. Here to our students won the Hatton Scholarship Award and the IADR India scholarship to visit London.