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Research in Dhanbad

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Dhanbad, India. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
16k
▼ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
291k
18.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
18.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Dhanbad

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 Dhanbad?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Indian Institute of Technology DhanbadUniversity 14,833 #1,606

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Dhanbad work in?

In 2022-now, 87% of research in Dhanbad is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (48%), Materials Science (8%), Computer Science (8%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4,370 fractional works · 86.7% of its workEngineering: 2,416 fractional works · 47.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 626 fractional works · 12.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 385 fractional works · 7.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 278 fractional works · 5.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 237 fractional works · 4.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 213 fractional works · 4.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 139 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 117 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 114 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 88 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 68 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 58 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 50 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 405 fractional works · 8.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 259 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 48 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 44 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomaterials: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 382 fractional works · 7.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 130 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 76 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 64 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems: 45 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 377 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 79 fractional works · 1.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 68 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 40 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 196 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeophysics: 97 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 45 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 168 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 100 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 139 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 61 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiation: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 136 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 117 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 106 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 44 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 46 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCatalysis: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 301 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 83 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 34 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 49 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 77 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 45 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 199 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 101 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 76 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 64 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPlant Science: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 169 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMedicine: 130 fractional works · 2.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 86 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDhanbad5,039fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2,41647.9%
    2. Materials Science4058.0%
    3. Computer Science3827.6%
    4. Environmental Science3777.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1963.9%
    6. Chemistry1683.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy1392.8%
    8. Energy1362.7%
    9. Mathematics1062.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering460.9%
    1. Social Sciences831.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting771.5%
    3. Decision Sciences450.9%
    4. Psychology350.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance310.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities290.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1012.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences641.3%
    3. Neuroscience210.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics90.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology30.1%
    1. Medicine1302.6%
    2. Health Professions310.6%
    3. Nursing40.1%
    4. Dentistry30.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Dhanbad strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Dhanbad is most concentrated in Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanics of Materials and Geophysics (8.7× the world share in Geochemistry and Petrology).

  1. Geochemistry and PetrologySubfield · 40.0 works8.7×
  2. Mechanics of MaterialsSubfield · 255.1 works8.0×
  3. GeophysicsSubfield · 86.0 works5.5×
  4. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 53.9 works5.0×
  5. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 105.1 works4.5×
  6. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 351.8 works4.2×
  7. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 39.5 works4.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 55 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.35× its world share, 83 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.27× its world share, 20 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.49× its world share, 8 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.41× its world share, 38 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.19× its world share, 154 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.99× its world share, 347 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.46× its world share, 174 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.95× its world share, 122 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.28× its world share, 2,214 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.46× its world share, 327 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.31× its world share, 363 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.77× its world share, 94 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.19× its world share, 119 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.23× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 97 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 19 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.48× its world share, 70 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 42 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.30× its world share, 28 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.17× its world share, 23 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 68 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.28×2,214 works
  2. Energy2.95×122 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.46×174 works
  4. Chemical Engineering2.41×38 works
  5. Materials Science2.31×363 works
  6. Chemistry2.19×154 works
  7. Mathematics1.77×94 works
  8. Environmental Science1.46×327 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy1.19×119 works
  10. Computer Science0.99×347 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.97×42 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.49×8 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.48×70 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.35×83 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.30×28 works
  16. Neuroscience0.27×20 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×55 works
  18. Health Professions0.23×28 works
  19. Psychology0.17×23 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.15×19 works
  21. Dentistry0.13×3 works
  22. Nursing0.12×3 works
  23. Social Sciences0.12×68 works
  24. Medicine0.11×97 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Dhanbad?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Renewable Energy, Mechanical Properties, Heat Transfer, Power Electronics, Renewable Energy Integration, Machine Learning, Fracture and Optimization.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
  1. Machine Learning235▲ 1.40×81 topics
  2. Renewable Energy206▲ 2.8×41 topics
  3. Deep Learning175◆ 1.01×73 topics
  4. Environmental Impact166▲ 1.94×49 topics
  5. Mechanical Properties161▲ 3.3×36 topics
  6. Nanomaterials136▲ 2.6×18 topics
  7. Energy Efficiency129▲ 2.8×35 topics
  8. Heat Transfer127▲ 5.1×18 topics
  9. Nanoparticles123▲ 1.94×42 topics
  10. Remote Sensing116▲ 1.88×31 topics
  11. Power Electronics110▲ 6.8×8 topics
  12. Renewable Energy Integration108▲ 6.5×5 topics
  13. Optimization106▲ 4.7×25 topics
  14. Graphene106▲ 3.1×12 topics
  15. Nanocomposites99▲ 2.5×21 topics
  16. Fracture90▲ 18×3 topics
  17. Rock Mechanics84▲ 17×4 topics
  18. Energy Storage80▲ 2.4×12 topics
  19. Microstructure79▲ 3.0×17 topics
  20. Numerical Simulation79▲ 5.4×14 topics
  21. Dynamic Behavior77▲ 13×3 topics
  22. Solar Energy73▲ 4.6×5 topics
  23. Biosensors73▲ 2.9×12 topics
  24. Nanostructures69▲ 3.4×14 topics
  25. CO2 Sequestration67▲ 6.8×4 topics
  26. Pore Structure65▲ 10×3 topics
  27. Finite Element Analysis60▲ 5.2×9 topics
  28. Vibration Analysis59▲ 4.4×9 topics
  29. Heavy Metals59▲ 4.9×7 topics
  30. Porous Media58▲ 8.8×6 topics
  31. Smart Grid Applications58▲ 8.9×2 topics
  32. Acoustic Emission58▲ 18×2 topics
  33. Wave Propagation58▲ 10×4 topics
  34. Brittle Failure58▲ 19×1 topic
  35. Numerical Modelling58▲ 19×1 topic
  36. Energy Storage Systems55▲ 7.8×2 topics
  37. Decentralized Control55▲ 9.2×2 topics
  38. Distributed Power Generation47▲ 9.1×1 topic
  39. Microgrid Control47▲ 9.1×1 topic
  40. Process Parameters45▲ 8.4×3 topics

What research is done in Dhanbad?

Rock Mechanics and Modeling: 51 fractional worksMicrogrid Control and Optimization: 44 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 33 fractional worksMineral Processing and Grinding: 32 fractional worksLuminescence Properties of Advanced Materials: 31 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 28 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 28 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering…26Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis: 26 fractional worksAdvanced Photocatalysis Techniques: 26 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 26 fractional works
Mechanics of MaterialsControl and Systems EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMaterials Chemistry4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Rock Mechanics and Modeling Mechanics of Materials 51 works
  2. 2 Microgrid Control and Optimization Control and Systems Engineering 44 works
  3. 3 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 33 works
  4. 4 Mineral Processing and Grinding Mechanical Engineering 32 works
  5. 5 Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials Materials Chemistry 31 works
  6. 6 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 28 works
  7. 7 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 28 works
  8. 8 Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 26 works
  9. 9 Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 26 works
  10. 10 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 26 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Dhanbad17.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 28.0% in 2015.

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