1. To establish quantitative indicators suitable and unique for evaluating academic efficiency of ASIAN universities, focusing on research assessment performance.
2. To characterize niche or interdisciplinary areas that are most relevant to Asian universities by designing sets of keywords for research performance evaluations.
3. To evaluate and rank research performance of Asian universities across both research disciplines and inter-disciplines, especially niche research areas in Asia region.
4. To propose recommendations and research policy initiatives of research performance improvements of Asian universities.
