Research in Delhi
Science Explorer records 57 research institutions in Delhi, India. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Ambedkar University Delhi and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi.
- Research institutions
- 57 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 44k ▲ 38% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 10.8% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Delhi?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityUniversity | 6,007 | #3,072 | |
| 2 | Ministry of CultureGovernment institution | 5,217 | #8,478 | |
| 3 | University College of Medical SciencesUniversity | 3,609 | #9,438 | |
| 4 | Ambedkar University DelhiUniversity | 2,806 | #4,835 | |
| 5 | Guru Teg Bahadur HospitalHospital / health system | 2,774 | #10,733 | |
| 6 | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology DelhiUniversity | 2,380 | #5,205 | |
| 7 | ESIC HospitalHospital / health system | 2,115 | #7,604 | |
| 8 | Solid State Physics LaboratoryResearch facility | 2,089 | #8,226 | |
| 9 | Max Super Speciality HospitalHospital / health system | 2,079 | #9,712 | |
| 10 | Institute of Genomics and Integrative BiologyResearch facility | 1,545 | #7,715 | |
| 11 | Ashoka UniversityUniversity | 1,300 | #6,122 | |
| 12 | Delhi Development AuthorityGovernment institution | 1,264 | #21,530 | |
| 13 | Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied SciencesResearch facility | 1,044 | #13,667 | |
| 14 | St. Stephen’s HospitalHospital / health system | 836 | #19,658 | |
| 15 | Shriram Institute for Industrial ResearchNonprofit | 725 | #16,858 | |
| 16 | Laser Science & Technology CentreResearch facility | 708 | #20,155 all time | |
| 17 | Centre for Development EconomicsResearch facility | 689 | #21,912 | |
| 18 | Hindu Rao HospitalHospital / health system | 680 | #23,799 | |
| 19 | Deen Dayal Upadhyay HospitalHospital / health system | 634 | #10,833 | |
| 20 | Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye HospitalHospital / health system | 622 | #20,809 | |
| 21 | Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied SciencesResearch facility | 612 | #21,536 | |
| 22 | Centre for the Study of Developing SocietiesResearch facility | 586 | #26,361 | |
| 23 | National Informatics CentreInstitution | 585 | #25,938 | |
| 24 | Chacha Nehru Bal ChikitsalayaHospital / health system | 534 | #25,924 | |
| 25 | Fortis HealthcareHospital / health system | 415 | #22,277 | |
| 26 | Care IndiaNonprofit | 312 | #18,960 | |
| 27 | Scientific Analysis GroupResearch facility | 243 | #33,009 all time | |
| 28 | Defence Scientific Information & Documentation CentreResearch facility | 211 | #30,714 all time | |
| 29 | Centre for Fire, Explosive and Environment SafetyResearch facility | 190 | #26,515 all time | |
| 30 | Population Council InstituteNonprofit | 165 | #35,711 all time | |
| 31 | Sant Parmanand HospitalHospital / health system | 149 | #42,692 all time | |
| 32 | Defence Institute of Psychological ResearchResearch facility | 148 | #41,659 all time | |
| 33 | Delhi State Cancer InstituteResearch facility | 131 | #36,903 all time | |
| 34 | Ministry of New and Renewable EnergyGovernment institution | 116 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Defence Terrain Research LaboratoryResearch facility | 112 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Institute for Systems Studies & AnalysesResearch facility | 66 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Indian Institute of Art & DesignUniversity | 51 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Urban Emissions InfoResearch facility | 24 | not ranked | |
| 39 | CanKids KidsCanNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Foundation for Research in Health SystemsNonprofit | 13 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Action for AutismNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Foundation for Innovation and Technology TransferInstitution | 12 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Nulife HospitalHospital / health system | 12 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Association of Indian UniversitiesInstitution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Centre for Budget and Governance AccountabilityNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Central Board of Secondary EducationGovernment institution | 8 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Rajiv Gandhi Charitable TrustNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Indian Pharmacist AssociationInstitution | 5 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Johar Health Maintenance OrganizationNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Centre for Personnel Talent ManagementGovernment institution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Global ICT Standardization Forum for IndiaInstitution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Ministry of Human Resource DevelopmentGovernment institution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Armaments Research BoardResearch facility | 2 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Migration & Asylum ProjectNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Poly Medicure (India)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Vejchewin Research InstituteCompany | 1 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Life Sciences Research BoardResearch facility | 0 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Delhi strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Delhi is most concentrated in Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and History (4.0× the world share in Ophthalmology).
- OphthalmologySubfield · 123.6 works4.0×
- OtorhinolaryngologySubfield · 35.3 works3.0×
- HistorySubfield · 106.1 works2.8×
- Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineSubfield · 36.0 works2.8×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in Delhi?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Healthcare, COVID-19, Diagnosis, Treatment and Inflammation.
- Viking Age
- Material Culture
- Antifungal Therapy
- Trade
- Cultural Exchange
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Colonialism
- Data Mining
- Complications
- Religion
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Security
- Internet of Things
- Quality of Life
- Diagnosis
- Sustainability
- Healthcare
- COVID-19
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Treatment
- Neural Networks
- Oxidative Stress
- Pandemic
- Artificial Intelligence
- Risk Factors
- Human Rights
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Surgical Management
- Management
- Immune Response
- Vaccine
- IoT Security
- Archaeology
- Rituals
- Medieval
- Scandinavia
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology798▲ 1.72×136 topics
- Deep Learning675▲ 1.69×81 topics
- Machine Learning625▲ 1.63×94 topics
- Inflammation275◆ 1.13×81 topics
- Globalization264◆ 1.15×123 topics
- COVID-19260▲ 1.63×30 topics
- Treatment245▲ 1.73×52 topics
- Healthcare242▲ 1.83×29 topics
- Neural Networks241▲ 1.34×39 topics
- Sustainability230▼ 0.81×93 topics
- Oxidative Stress223▲ 1.16×59 topics
- Diagnosis223▲ 2.0×41 topics
- Pandemic196▲ 1.57×14 topics
- Quality of Life181◆ 1.07×53 topics
- Artificial Intelligence180◆ 1.12×56 topics
- Internet of Things178▲ 1.75×28 topics
- Risk Factors166▲ 1.29×37 topics
- Security158▲ 2.1×27 topics
- Human Rights157▲ 1.30×64 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease154▲ 1.18×39 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks151▲ 1.77×14 topics
- Religion141▲ 2.5×36 topics
- Surgical Management141▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Complications136▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Management133▲ 1.44×35 topics
- Data Mining130▲ 1.48×23 topics
- Immune Response122▲ 1.84×23 topics
- Colonialism116▲ 2.1×37 topics
- Vaccine114▲ 2.4×11 topics
- Wireless Sensor Networks111▲ 2.1×23 topics
- IoT Security96▲ 2.5×3 topics
- Cultural Exchange94▲ 6.2×9 topics
- Archaeology94▲ 5.9×9 topics
- Trade70▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Rituals68▲ 6.7×4 topics
- Antifungal Therapy68▲ 6.5×3 topics
- Medieval66▲ 15×2 topics
- Material Culture65▲ 13×2 topics
- Scandinavia63▲ 36×1 topic
- Viking Age63▲ 36×1 topic
What research is done in Delhi?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Historical and Archaeological Studies History 63 works
- 2 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 48 works
- 3 Social and Educational Sciences Education 48 works
- 4 Smart Agriculture and AI Plant Science 46 works
- 5 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Health Information Management 44 works
- 6 South Asian Studies and Conflicts Political Science and International Relations 42 works
- 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 37 works
- 8 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 37 works
- 9 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 36 works
- 10 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 34 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.