2017 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

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# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 India Department of Space (DOS), India 7.05 14.03 21 85.5%
2 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 6.49 6.65 14 -4.3%
3 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India 3.53 6.29 11 66.2%
4 India Ministry of Earth Science (MoES), India 8.87 5.79 15 -39.1%
5 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India 1.07 2.42 4 111.2%
6 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India 3.47 2.22 3 -40.4%
7 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India 0.20 1.97 3 817.7%
8 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISER Mohali), India – 1.67 2 N/A
8 Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), India 0.14 1.67 5 988.8%
9 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India 0.67 1.22 2 69.9%
10 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH), India 0.50 1.00 1 86.7%
10 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata), India 0.80 1.00 1 16.4%
10 Shivaji University, India 1.00 1.00 1 -6.7%
10 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India – 1.00 1 N/A
10 University of Calcutta (CU), India – 1.00 1 N/A
10 The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India 1.60 1.00 2 -41.6%
11 Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT Gandhinagar), India 2.17 0.89 3 -61.6%
12 India Ministry of Science and Technology, India 0.81 0.68 2 -21.1%
13 SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India – 0.67 1 N/A
14 Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), India 0.25 0.50 1 86.7%
15 National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NITR), India 0.67 0.42 2 -41.7%
16 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India 0.14 0.40 4 173.1%
17 University of Hyderabad (UoH), India 0.08 0.37 2 310.6%
18 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India 0.72 0.33 1 -56.6%
19 Jadavpur University (JU), India 0.33 0.32 1 -10.0%
20 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), India 1.14 0.26 2 -79.0%
21 Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India 0.02 0.25 1 1136.6%
21 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India – 0.25 1 N/A
21 Tea Research Association (TRA), India – 0.25 1 N/A
21 Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, India – 0.25 1 N/A
21 The Resource Optimization Initiative (ROI), India – 0.25 1 N/A
21 Utkal University, India – 0.25 1 N/A
22 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 0.04 0.21 1 402.8%
23 India Meteorological Department (IMD), India 0.64 0.20 1 -71.0%
24 Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), India 0.23 0.17 2 -31.2%
25 Patna University, India – 0.16 2 N/A
26 Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India 0.67 0.13 1 -82.5%
26 Indian Environmental Society (IES), India – 0.13 1 N/A
27 Tripura University, India – 0.11 1 N/A
28 National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee, India 0.33 0.10 1 -72.0%
28 Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), India – 0.10 1 N/A
29 Pondicherry University, India 0.05 0.10 3 88.2%
30 Geological Survey of India (GSI), India – 0.08 1 N/A
30 Asian Institute of Public Health (AIPH), India – 0.08 1 N/A
31 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University), India – 0.07 1 N/A
32 Amity University, India – 0.06 1 N/A
33 National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), India – 0.06 1 N/A
34 Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), India 0.25 0.04 1 -86.7%
35 Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), India – 0.03 1 N/A

Footnote

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  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
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