India has witnessed a huge growth in its higher education system as well as in its R & D and industrial infrastructure since its independence in 1947. Research and development activities are being performed in all these institutions across spectrum of all subject categories. The objective of this article is to elaborate upon a unique Indian Research Information Management System (IRINS) developed by the INFLIBNET Centre which can be used as a common platform across all educational and research institutes in Indian higher education sector. The IRINS could be used effectively for efficiently measuring and benchmarking research output of individual institute as well as across institutions. ARTICLE articles after it go through a process of peer review by experts in their respective disciplines. Research publications plays a major role in scientific research and are key source in creating a network of researchers in a given discipline. In this direction, Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) Centre developed a database called “VIDWAN: Expert Database and National Researcher Network” which is a premier database of research profiles of scientists / researchers and faculty members working in leading academic institutions and Research & Development organisation involved in teaching and research across India. VIDWAN was developed and maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre with funding from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database is being used for selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, etc. set-up by the Ministries / Govt. Departments for monitoring and evaluation purposes. 1. Introduction Academic institutes, research and development laboratories etc., are the hubs where research takes place on day-to-day basis across all major subject areas. The research activities and its findings are made accessible publicly to the research community across the World through different channels of publications. that are available to researchers to publish their research findings for the benefit of their research community all over the globe. The first and foremost channel of publications that is used by most of the academicians and research fraternity is journals. Research published in top-tier, high impact factor journals fetches greater visibility to his / her research as well as to researchers themselves in their respective subject area. Every subject discipline has a number of top-tier, high-impact research journals published by prestigious commercial publishers, scholarly societies, university presses, etc. that publish research Vol. 25, No. 3 (July to September 2018) 14 Federated Research Profile Management for Researchers in India: Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS) 1 2 3 Kannan P , Siva Shankar Kimidi and Jagdish Arora