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Centre For Development Alternatives

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Research works
9
▼ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
162
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
8%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Centre For Development Alternatives

Not ranked overall: Centre For Development Alternatives is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Centre For Development Alternatives work in?

In all years, 85% of research at Centre For Development Alternatives is in Social Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (52%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (20%), Decision Sciences (11%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 8 fractional works · 85.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 52.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 24.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 20.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 20.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 11.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 11.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workALL ITS WORKCentre ForDevelopment…9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences85%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences552.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance220.2%
    3. Decision Sciences111.0%
    4. Psychology01.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences17.4%
    1. Health Professions04.7%
    2. Medicine00.6%
    1. Environmental Science01.9%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Centre For Development Alternatives?

Ranked on the quality score, Indira Hirway lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Centre For Development Alternatives.

  1. 1 Indira Hirway India · #1,325,024 worldwide 989 citations · 63 works
All ranked researchers at Centre For Development Alternatives

What are the most cited papers from Centre For Development Alternatives?

The most cited paper from Centre For Development Alternatives is "Understanding Women's Work Using Time-Use Statistics: The Case of India" (Indira Hirway, Sunny Jose, 2011), with 153 citations. Next come "Challenging gender inequity through male involvement in maternal and newborn health: critical assessment of an emerging evidence base" (140) and "Explorations: Time-use surveys in the south" (101).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding Women's Work Using Time-Use Statistics: The Case of India Indira Hirway, Sunny Jose · Feminist Economics Oct 2011 153
2 Challenging gender inequity through male involvement in maternal and newborn health: critical assessment of an emerging evidence base Liz Comrie‐Thomson, Mariam Tokhi, Frances H Ampt et al. · Culture Health & Sexuality Open access 10 Jul 2015 140
3 Explorations: Time-use surveys in the south Valeria Esquivel, Debbie Budlender, Nancy R. Folbre et al. · Feminist Economics Jul 2008 101
4 Enhancing Livelihood Security Through the National Employment Guarantee Act Toward Effective Implementation of the Act Indira Hirway · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2006 30
5 Unpaid Work and the Economy: Linkages and Their Implications Indira Hirway · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2015 15
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Which research topics does Centre For Development Alternatives publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Indian Economic and Social Development, International Labor and Employment Law, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics and Work-Family Balance Challenges.

Indian Economic and Soci…0Indian Economic and Social Development: 0 fractional worksInternational Labor and Employment Law: 0 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 0 fractional worksWork-Family Balance Chal…0Work-Family Balance Challenges: 0 fractional worksAgricultural risk and re…0Agricultural risk and resilience: 0 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksGlobal Health Care Issues: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPolitical Science and International RelationsGender StudiesSociology and Political Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Indian Economic and Social Development Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  2. 2 International Labor and Employment Law Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  3. 3 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 0 works
  4. 4 Work-Family Balance Challenges Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Agricultural risk and resilience Soil Science 0 works
  6. 6 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  7. 7 Global Health Care Issues General Health Professions 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 available7.7%not open92.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.4%domestic only81.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Centre For Development Alternatives's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% lower than in 2018-2021.

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