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Central Pollution Control Board

In research, Central Pollution Control Board stands highest in Physical Sciences (#4,274 of 10,670 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,654 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Science (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is 25.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,465
of 22,385 · #11,097 all time
Rank in India
#596
of 1,562
Research works
825
▲ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
19k
23.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Central Pollution Control Board

What is Central Pollution Control Board known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #4,274 of 10,670 9.7%183 #7200
Environmental ScienceField #1,654 of 3,334 9.4%112 #2850

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Central Pollution Control Board 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 Central Pollution Control Board work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at Central Pollution Control Board is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (49%), Engineering (16%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 208 fractional works · 81.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 125 fractional works · 48.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 24 fractional works · 9.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 21 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPollution: 17 fractional works · 6.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 17 fractional works · 6.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 13 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 12 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 9 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEngineering: 40 fractional works · 15.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 12 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 26 fractional works · 10.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 14 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCentral PollutionControl Board256fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences3%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science12548.7%
    2. Engineering4015.7%
    3. Materials Science124.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences114.4%
    5. Chemistry83.2%
    6. Energy72.8%
    7. Computer Science31.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences176.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology72.8%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Medicine114.3%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    1. Social Sciences62.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting10.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    6. Psychology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Central Pollution Control Board specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering takes 25.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 20.9 works25×
  2. Water Science and TechnologySubfield · 23.6 works18×
  3. Environmental ScienceField · 124.5 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 1.43× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.52× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.53× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.01× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.84× its world share, 11 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.05× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.05× its world share, 40 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.80× its world share, 124 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.31× its world share, 12 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.80×124 works
  2. Energy3.05×7 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.84×11 works
  4. Chemistry2.01×8 works
  5. Chemical Engineering1.53×1 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.43×17 works
  7. Materials Science1.31×12 works
  8. Engineering1.05×40 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.64×1 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.52×7 works
  11. Nursing0.49×1 works
  12. Health Professions0.29×2 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.27×2 works
  14. Medicine0.22×11 works
  15. Social Sciences0.17×6 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.14×0 works
  17. Computer Science0.14×3 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.09×0 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.07×0 works
  21. Neuroscience0.06×0 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.05×0 works
  23. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  24. Psychology0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Central Pollution Control Board?

Ranked on the quality score, Sunita Varjani, Anil V. Shah and Prashant Gargava lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Central Pollution Control Board.

  1. 1 Sunita Varjani India · #2,003 worldwide 32k citations · 439 works
  2. 2 Anil V. Shah India · #343,654 worldwide 2.3k citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Prashant Gargava India · #1,065,454 worldwide 1.3k citations · 39 works
  4. 4 M. M. Braverman India · #1,635,136 worldwide 731 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 P. S. Bundela India · #1,956,062 worldwide 1.5k citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Ajit Kumar Vidyarthi India · #2,002,326 worldwide 227 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Ankur Kansal India · #2,229,525 worldwide 1.4k citations · 29 works
  8. 8 Ujjal Kumar Mukhopadhyay India · #2,641,202 worldwide 1.1k citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Ramesha Chandrappa India · #2,681,249 worldwide 962 citations · 100 works
  10. 10 Sushil Kumar Gupta India · #2,728,393 worldwide 130 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Central Pollution Control Board

What are the most cited papers from Central Pollution Control Board?

The most cited paper from Central Pollution Control Board is "Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: state of the art and future challenges" (Wanlin Gao et al., 2020), with 1,393 citations. Next come "Municipal solid waste management in Indian cities – A review" (1,276) and "A critical review on the biochar production techniques, characterization, stability and applications for circular bioeconomy" (1,118).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: state of the art and future challenges Wanlin Gao et al. · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2020 1,393
2 Municipal solid waste management in Indian cities – A review Mufeed Sharholy, Kafeel Ahmad, Gauhar Mahmood et al. · Waste Management 13 Apr 2007 1,276
3 A critical review on the biochar production techniques, characterization, stability and applications for circular bioeconomy P.R. Yaashikaa, P. Senthil Kumar, Sunita Varjani et al. · Biotechnology Reports Open access 21 Nov 2020 1,118
4 A critical review on advances in the practices and perspectives for the treatment of dye industry wastewater Toral Shindhal, Parita Rakholiya, Sunita Varjani et al. · Bioengineered Open access 28 Dec 2020 728
5 Microbial degradation of dyes: An overview Sunita Varjani, Parita Rakholiya, How Yong Ng et al. · Bioresource Technology Open access 28 Jun 2020 559
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Central Pollution Control Board?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Environmental Impact, Recycling, Climate Change, Waste Management, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Health Effects and Multivariate Statistical Techniques.

▲ 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 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. Environmental Impact43▲ 9.8×33 topics
  2. Climate Change28▲ 4.0×37 topics
  3. Sustainability25▲ 4.0×28 topics
  4. Recycling21▲ 22×9 topics
  5. Waste Management20▲ 19×7 topics
  6. Renewable Energy18▲ 4.9×17 topics
  7. Health Effects14▲ 8.9×16 topics
  8. Multivariate Statistical Techniques13▲ 129×1 topic
  9. Water Quality Index13▲ 129×1 topic
  10. Toxicity13▲ 11×10 topics
  11. Pollution12▲ 24×4 topics
  12. Heavy Metals12▲ 19×9 topics
  13. Particulate Matter11▲ 29×2 topics
  14. Wastewater Treatment11▲ 17×9 topics
  15. Metal Recovery10▲ 20×3 topics
  16. COVID-1910▲ 3.0×4 topics
  17. Environmental Impacts10▲ 14×8 topics
  18. Remote Sensing10▲ 3.1×14 topics
  19. Pandemic10▲ 3.8×4 topics
  20. Water Quality10▲ 9.4×12 topics
  21. Air Quality10▲ 20×4 topics
  22. Nanomaterials10▲ 3.5×13 topics
  23. Life Cycle Assessment9▲ 12×6 topics
  24. Waste-to-Energy8▲ 44×2 topics
  25. Mortality8▲ 5.5×3 topics
  26. Catalysis8▲ 4.6×14 topics
  27. E-Waste7▲ 34×1 topic
  28. Environmental Monitoring7▲ 7.5×4 topics
  29. Hazardous Substances7▲ 34×1 topic
  30. Air Pollution7▲ 23×2 topics
  31. Contamination7▲ 29×2 topics
  32. Human Health7▲ 17×2 topics
  33. Fine Particulate Air Pollution7▲ 29×1 topic
  34. Global Burden of Disease7▲ 11×1 topic
  35. Marine Environment7▲ 18×3 topics
  36. Circular Economy6▲ 9.3×6 topics
  37. IoT6▲ 6.8×2 topics
  38. Remediation6▲ 34×2 topics
  39. Municipal Solid Waste6▲ 41×2 topics
  40. Hydrogen Production6▲ 8.8×6 topics

Which research topics does Central Pollution Control Board publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Air Quality and Health Impacts and Heavy metals in environment.

Water Quality and Pollut…13Water Quality and Pollution Assessment: 13 fractional worksRecycling and Waste Management Techniques: 7 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 7 fractional worksHeavy metals in environment: 6 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 6 fractional worksMunicipal Solid Waste Management: 6 fractional worksCOVID-19 impact on air q…5COVID-19 impact on air quality: 5 fractional worksHealthcare and Environmental Waste Management: 4 fractional worksAir Quality Monitoring and Forecasting: 4 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 3 fractional works
Water Science and TechnologyIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisPollution4 others

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

  1. 1 Water Quality and Pollution Assessment Water Science and Technology 13 works
  2. 2 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 7 works
  3. 3 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 7 works
  4. 4 Heavy metals in environment Pollution 6 works
  5. 5 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 6 works
  6. 6 Municipal Solid Waste Management Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 6 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 impact on air quality Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  8. 8 Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  9. 9 Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting Environmental Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 3 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 available31.2%not open68.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.2%domestic only74.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Central Pollution Control Board's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Central Pollution Control Board as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0010% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Central Pollution Control Board0.00076% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Central Pollution Control Board over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Central Pollution Control Board8.3% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.1% in 2021.

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