Research in Kolkata
Science Explorer records 111 research institutions in Kolkata, India. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Jadavpur University, University of Calcutta and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata.
- Research institutions
- 111 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 185k ▲ 24% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 12.0% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Kolkata?
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.
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What is Kolkata strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Kolkata is most concentrated in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Algebra and Number Theory and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (4.5× the world share in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics).
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 877.7 works4.5×
- Algebra and Number TheorySubfield · 91.5 works3.4×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 384.7 works2.9×
- Organic ChemistrySubfield · 920.9 works2.9×
- Physical and Theoretical ChemistrySubfield · 93.9 works2.8×
- Pharmaceutical ScienceSubfield · 120.6 works2.7×
- ChemistryField · 1,604.0 works2.5×
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 Kolkata?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Biogeography, Climate Change, Epidemiology, Phylogeny, Antioxidant and Medicinal Plants.
- Ethnopharmacological Study
- Phytochemical Constituents
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Taxonomy
- Classification
- Herbal Medicine
- Toxicity
- Invasive Species
- Phylogeny
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Biodiversity
- Nanomaterials
- Remote Sensing
- Antioxidant
- Environmental Impact
- Oxidative Stress
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Nanoparticles
- Biogeography
- Biomedical Applications
- Inflammation
- Neural Networks
- Cancer
- Medicinal Plants
- Healthcare
- Internet of Things
- Security
- Antioxidant Activity
- Drug Delivery
- Drug Discovery
- Molecular Phylogeny
- Evolution
- Bioimaging
- Ethnobotanical Survey
- Cultural Importance Indices
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
- Machine Learning2,009▲ 1.47×97 topics
- Deep Learning1,993▲ 1.39×85 topics
- Epidemiology1,625◆ 0.98×137 topics
- Climate Change1,417▲ 1.26×114 topics
- Nanoparticles850▲ 1.62×43 topics
- Sustainability818▼ 0.80×101 topics
- Biogeography791▲ 7.3×20 topics
- Oxidative Stress789▲ 1.16×63 topics
- Biomedical Applications771▲ 1.56×36 topics
- Environmental Impact762◆ 1.07×65 topics
- Inflammation756◆ 0.87×83 topics
- Antioxidant756▲ 2.6×51 topics
- Neural Networks710◆ 1.10×42 topics
- Remote Sensing680▲ 1.32×39 topics
- Cancer674▲ 1.20×59 topics
- Nanomaterials666▲ 1.51×20 topics
- Medicinal Plants626▲ 3.7×21 topics
- Biodiversity622▲ 2.0×37 topics
- Healthcare612▲ 1.30×35 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks534▲ 1.75×14 topics
- Internet of Things508▲ 1.40×29 topics
- Phylogeny490▲ 7.8×17 topics
- Security490▲ 1.80×30 topics
- Invasive Species482▲ 2.7×21 topics
- Antioxidant Activity478▲ 1.81×32 topics
- Toxicity450▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Drug Delivery426▲ 1.88×16 topics
- Herbal Medicine409▲ 3.4×12 topics
- Drug Discovery396▲ 4.2×12 topics
- Classification395▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Molecular Phylogeny366▲ 5.7×12 topics
- Taxonomy365▲ 6.8×15 topics
- Evolution344▲ 3.3×19 topics
- Medicinal Chemistry340▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Bioimaging326▲ 3.4×6 topics
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge216▲ 12×2 topics
- Ethnobotanical Survey214▲ 17×2 topics
- Phytochemical Constituents214▲ 18×2 topics
- Cultural Importance Indices214▲ 18×1 topic
- Ethnopharmacological Study214▲ 18×1 topic
What research is done in Kolkata?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants StudiesPlant Science 214 works
- 2 Plant Diversity and EvolutionEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 168 works
- 3 Plant and Fungal Species DescriptionsMolecular Biology 154 works
- 4 Plant and animal studiesEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 145 works
- 5 Cosmology and Gravitation TheoriesAstronomy and Astrophysics 142 works
- 6 Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputational Theory and Mathematics 132 works
- 7 Artificial Intelligence in HealthcareHealth Information Management 125 works
- 8 Blockchain Technology Applications and SecurityInformation Systems 123 works
- 9 IoT and Edge/Fog ComputingComputer Networks and Communications 119 works
- 10 Smart Agriculture and AIPlant Science 119 works
Research output over time
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