Question 1

How strong is science in India?

Accepted Answer

India ranks #18 of 189 countries on research quality in 2022-now (#20 all time), with 1.4M research works and 6.5% of them in the world's top 10%.

Question 2

What is India strongest at in science?

Accepted Answer

On research quality in 2022-now, India ranks highest in Organic Chemistry (#4 of 63), Chemistry (#5 of 71) and Information Systems (#9 of 90). Relative to its size it is most specialised in Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Science and Complementary and alternative medicine.

Question 3

Which universities in India lead research?

Accepted Answer

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati rank highest in India on research quality in 2022-now.

Question 4

Who are the top researchers in India?

Accepted Answer

Sanjit Mitra, C. Mishra and Sachin Kumar Mangla rank highest among researchers based in India.

Question 5

Which cities in India are research hubs?

Accepted Answer

By research output, New Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai.

Question 6

How much of India's research is open access?

Accepted Answer

40% of its research is openly available (world: 40%), and 11% is written with international co-authors (world: 18%).

Question 7

Is India's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% higher than in 2018-2021.

Question 8

Which keywords describe research in India?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Epidemiology, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Security, Convolutional Neural Networks and Neural Networks.

Question 9

Which fields of science does India work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 49% of research in India is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (18%), Engineering (18%), Computer Science (12%).

Question 10

Which countries have research most like India's?

Accepted Answer

Saudi Arabia has the research profile closest to India's (similarity 0.81 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, followed by Egypt and Iraq.