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B M Birla Science Centre

In research, B M Birla Science Centre stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#2,494 of 2,917 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#17,238 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#34,871
of 34,923
Rank in India
#1,754
of 1,754
Research works
190
▼ 61% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2k
6.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.81×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
48%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
B M Birla Science Centre

What is B M Birla Science Centre known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physics and AstronomyField #2,494 of 2,917 0.9%148
Physical SciencesDomain #17,238 of 17,446 1.3%172

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where B M Birla Science Centre sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does B M Birla Science Centre work in?

In all years, 90% of research at B M Birla Science Centre is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (78%), Medicine (4%), Computer Science (4%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 172 fractional works · 90.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 148 fractional works · 77.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 51 fractional works · 27.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 40 fractional works · 21.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 31 fractional works · 16.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 22 fractional works · 11.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPhysiology: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKB M Birla ScienceCentre190fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences4%

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

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy14877.6%
    2. Computer Science84.1%
    3. Mathematics73.6%
    4. Engineering31.6%
    5. Materials Science21.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.1%
    7. Chemistry10.7%
    8. Environmental Science10.5%
    1. Medicine84.3%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    1. Psychology21.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.8%
    3. Decision Sciences10.7%
    4. Social Sciences10.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.83× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 1.26× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 9.46× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 16.76× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.30× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.14× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.48× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 16.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy16.76×5 works
  2. Mathematics9.46×2 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.14×1 works
  4. Psychology2.48×1 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.30×1 works
  6. Computer Science1.26×1 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.83×0 works
  8. Medicine0.49×1 works
  9. Materials Science0.36×0 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.35×0 works
  11. Engineering0.34×1 works
  12. Health Professions0.32×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.20×0 works
  14. Environmental Science0.17×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×0 works

Who are the top researchers at B M Birla Science Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, B. G. Sidharth, Christian Corda and Abhishek Das lead among researchers whose main affiliation is B M Birla Science Centre.

  1. 1 B. G. Sidharth India · #5,049,552 worldwide 56 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 Christian Corda India · #5,627,048 worldwide 3.5k citations · 178 works
  3. 3 Abhishek Das India · #6,397,429 worldwide 101 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Ignazio Francesco Licata India · #7,046,497 worldwide 1.2k citations · 156 works
  5. 5 B. G. Sidharth India · #7,666,642 worldwide 1.5k citations · 358 works
All ranked researchers at B M Birla Science Centre

What are the most cited papers from B M Birla Science Centre?

The most cited paper from B M Birla Science Centre is "Implications of the generalized entropy formalisms on the Newtonian gravity and dynamics" (Hooman Moradpour, Ahmad Sheykhi, Christian Corda et al., 2018), with 87 citations. Next come "THE UNIVERSE OF FLUCTUATIONS" (71) and "Time dependent Schrödinger equation for black hole evaporation: No information loss" (55).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Implications of the generalized entropy formalisms on the Newtonian gravity and dynamics Hooman Moradpour, Ahmad Sheykhi, Christian Corda et al. · Physics Letters B Open access 21 Jun 2018 87
2 THE UNIVERSE OF FLUCTUATIONS B. G. Sidharth · International Journal of Modern Physics A Open access 20 Jun 1998 71
3 Time dependent Schrödinger equation for black hole evaporation: No information loss Christian Corda · Annals of Physics Open access 16 Nov 2014 55
4 The chaotic universe B. G. Sidharth · Chaos Solitons & Fractals Open access Jun 2000 51
5 The extended uncertainty principle inspires the Rényi entropy H. Moradpour, C. Corda, A. H. Ziaie et al. · Europhysics Letters (EPL) Open access 8 Nov 2019 48
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at B M Birla Science Centre?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Quantum Gravity, Dark Energy, Lorentz Violation, Noncommutative Field Theory, Cantorian-Fractal, E-Infinity Theory, General Relativity and Cosmic Microwave Background.

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

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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. Quantum Gravity69▲ 298×4 topics
  2. Dark Energy37▲ 246×2 topics
  3. Lorentz Violation24▲ 530×1 topic
  4. Noncommutative Field Theory24▲ 530×1 topic
  5. Cantorian-Fractal19▲ 891×1 topic
  6. E-Infinity Theory19▲ 891×1 topic
  7. General Relativity19▲ 118×2 topics
  8. Cosmic Microwave Background18▲ 141×1 topic
  9. Cosmological Parameters18▲ 141×1 topic
  10. Entanglement18▲ 56×4 topics
  11. Quantum Information16▲ 65×3 topics
  12. Bell Inequality15▲ 169×1 topic
  13. Decoherence15▲ 169×1 topic
  14. Relativity15▲ 158×2 topics
  15. General Covariance15▲ 419×1 topic
  16. Unified Field Theories15▲ 419×1 topic
  17. Black Holes12▲ 45×3 topics
  18. String Theory12▲ 75×2 topics
  19. Quantum Entanglement12▲ 63×2 topics
  20. Field Theories12▲ 90×1 topic
  21. Holographic12▲ 90×1 topic
  22. Dark Matter9▲ 24×4 topics
  23. Particle Physics7▲ 27×2 topics
  24. Quantum Field Theory6▲ 138×2 topics
  25. Biofield6▲ 291×1 topic
  26. Biophoton6▲ 291×1 topic
  27. Electromagnetic Theory6▲ 286×1 topic
  28. Momentum of Light6▲ 286×1 topic
  29. Superconducting Circuits5▲ 40×2 topics
  30. Cosmic Rays5▲ 39×2 topics
  31. Neutrinos5▲ 39×2 topics
  32. Cosmology5▲ 26×4 topics
  33. Higgs Boson4▲ 20×1 topic
  34. High-Energy Collider4▲ 20×1 topic
  35. Casimir Effect3▲ 139×1 topic
  36. Quantum Vacuum3▲ 139×1 topic
  37. Galactic Center3▲ 27×2 topics
  38. Fluctuation Theorems3▲ 29×1 topic
  39. Stochastic Thermodynamics3▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Axions3▲ 53×1 topic

Which research topics does B M Birla Science Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fixed Point Theorems Analysis, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Relativity and Gravitational Theory and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

Fixed Point Theorems Analysis: 1 fractional worksQuantum Mechanics and Applications: 1 fractional worksRelativity and Gravitati…1Relativity and Gravitational Theory: 1 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitatio…1Cosmology and Gravitation Theories: 1 fractional worksComputability, Logic, AI Algorithms: 0 fractional worksResilience and Mental Health: 0 fractional worksHealth and Well-being St…0Health and Well-being Studies: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Mathematical Theories and Applications: 0 fractional worksSustainable Finance and Green Bonds: 0 fractional worksNoncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories: 0 fractional works
Geometry and TopologyAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsAstronomy and AstrophysicsComputational Theory and Mathematics3 others

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

  1. 1 Fixed Point Theorems Analysis Geometry and Topology 1 works
  2. 2 Quantum Mechanics and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  3. 3 Relativity and Gravitational Theory Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  4. 4 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  5. 5 Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms Computational Theory and Mathematics 0 works
  6. 6 Resilience and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Health and Well-being Studies Clinical Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 0 works
  9. 9 Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds Finance 0 works
  10. 10 Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available47.9%not open52.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.4%domestic only83.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has B M Birla Science Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is B M Birla Science Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000087% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%B M Birla Science Centre0.000060% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of B M Birla Science Centre over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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