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Centre for Policy Research

In research, Centre for Policy Research stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,506 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,149
of 22,385 · #9,450 all time
Rank in India
#979
of 1,562
Research works
831
▼ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.5k
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Centre for Policy Research

What is Centre for Policy Research 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
Social SciencesDomain #7,506 of 9,585 10.5%70 #4236

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Centre for Policy Research 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 Centre for Policy Research work in?

In 2022-now, 62% of research at Centre for Policy Research is in Social Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (40%), Environmental Science (9%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 78 fractional works · 62.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 51 fractional works · 40.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 17 fractional works · 13.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 fractional works · 10.6% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife-span and Life-course Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 8.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 19.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 8.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 11.9% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCentre for PolicyResearch126fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences62%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences5140.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance118.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting108.3%
    4. Arts and Humanities32.3%
    5. Decision Sciences21.7%
    6. Psychology21.3%
    1. Environmental Science118.9%
    2. Engineering54.0%
    3. Computer Science43.2%
    4. Energy21.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.8%
    6. Materials Science00.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.3%
    8. Chemistry00.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Medicine97.0%
    2. Health Professions53.8%
    3. Nursing11.0%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences64.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.6%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
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: 0.92× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.66× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.80× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.46× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.36× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 1.97× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.78× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.58× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.97× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.41× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.17× its world share, 51 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.97×11 works
  2. Social Sciences3.17×51 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.58×10 works
  4. Nursing1.97×1 works
  5. Environmental Science1.80×11 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.72×2 works
  7. Energy1.66×2 works
  8. Health Professions1.46×5 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.92×6 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.78×3 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.56×0 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.52×1 works
  13. Computer Science0.41×4 works
  14. Psychology0.41×2 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.38×0 works
  16. Medicine0.36×9 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.30×2 works
  18. Engineering0.26×5 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.19×0 works
  20. Dentistry0.18×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.17×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.13×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.10×0 works
  24. Mathematics0.08×0 works
  25. Neuroscience0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Centre for Policy Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Lavanya Rajamani, Navroz K. Dubash and Neelanjan Sircar lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Centre for Policy Research.

  1. 1 Lavanya Rajamani India · #51,227 worldwide 4.4k citations · 165 works
  2. 2 Navroz K. Dubash India · #86,248 worldwide 4.4k citations · 106 works
  3. 3 Neelanjan Sircar India · #587,319 worldwide 1.6k citations · 92 works
  4. 4 Sarah Ayres India · #832,656 worldwide 1.3k citations · 175 works
  5. 5 Yamini Aiyar India · #1,472,887 worldwide 493 citations · 40 works
  6. 6 Jacqui Croft India · #1,728,542 worldwide 387 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Mukta Naik India · #1,757,495 worldwide 169 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Avani Kapur India · #1,768,903 worldwide 314 citations · 47 works
  9. 9 Isher Judge Ahluwalia India · #1,859,518 worldwide 1.3k citations · 31 works
  10. 10 V. Rasheed Sulaiman India · #2,134,974 worldwide 757 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Centre for Policy Research

What are the most cited papers from Centre for Policy Research?

The most cited paper from Centre for Policy Research is "Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change" (Felix Creutzig, Joyashree Roy, William F. Lamb et al., 2018), with 882 citations. Next come "Developments in organic solid–liquid phase change materials and their applications in thermal energy storage" (800) and "The impact of energy consumption, income and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam" (690).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change Felix Creutzig, Joyashree Roy, William F. Lamb et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 29 Mar 2018 882
2 Developments in organic solid–liquid phase change materials and their applications in thermal energy storage Ravi Kumar Sharma, Poobalan Ganesan, V.V. Tyagi et al. · Energy Conversion and Management 27 Feb 2015 800
3 The impact of energy consumption, income and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam Chor Foon Tang, Bee Wah Tan · Energy 12 Dec 2014 690
4 Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 Mohsen Naghavi et al. · The Lancet Open access2,463 authors Oct 2025 500
5 Gentrification in a Global Context: The New Urban Colonialism Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge 10 Dec 2004 491
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Centre for Policy Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Conflict, Sustainability, Neoliberalism, Colonialism and Climate Change.

▲ 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. Globalization16▲ 6.5×31 topics
  2. Sustainability9▲ 2.8×24 topics
  3. Human Rights8▲ 6.4×14 topics
  4. Climate Change8▲ 2.4×29 topics
  5. Sustainable Development8▲ 4.1×18 topics
  6. Renewable Energy6▲ 3.2×9 topics
  7. Conflict6▲ 27×4 topics
  8. Economic Development5▲ 5.3×14 topics
  9. Neoliberalism5▲ 11×10 topics
  10. Economic Growth5▲ 4.6×11 topics
  11. Colonialism5▲ 7.8×5 topics
  12. Democracy4▲ 9.9×8 topics
  13. Urbanization4▲ 8.2×5 topics
  14. India4▲ 43×3 topics
  15. Development4▲ 8.4×7 topics
  16. Economic Reforms4▲ 98×2 topics
  17. Ethnicity4▲ 7.5×4 topics
  18. Higher Education3▲ 5.1×8 topics
  19. Digital Transformation3▲ 4.9×5 topics
  20. Labor Market3▲ 9.4×6 topics
  21. Political Economy3▲ 9.9×7 topics
  22. Decentralization3▲ 12×3 topics
  23. Land Tenure3▲ 58×2 topics
  24. Social Networks3▲ 9.0×4 topics
  25. Federalism3▲ 37×1 topic
  26. Kashmir3▲ 103×1 topic
  27. Gender Inequality3▲ 16×5 topics
  28. Policy3▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Gender Bias3▲ 25×2 topics
  30. Inequality3▲ 9.6×5 topics
  31. Respiratory Infections3▲ 20×3 topics
  32. Rural Economy3▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Environmental Governance3▲ 31×2 topics
  34. Health Equity3▲ 7.3×5 topics
  35. Poverty Alleviation3▲ 22×2 topics
  36. Agricultural Livelihoods2▲ 132×1 topic
  37. Global Governance2▲ 8.2×7 topics
  38. Household Fuel Use2▲ 29×1 topic
  39. Kerala2▲ 132×1 topic
  40. Poverty Reduction2▲ 15×4 topics

Which research topics does Centre for Policy Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: South Asian Studies and Conflicts, Social and Economic Development in India, Energy and Environment Impacts and Water Governance and Infrastructure.

South Asian Studies and …3South Asian Studies and Conflicts: 3 fractional worksSocial and Economic Deve…2Social and Economic Development in India: 2 fractional worksEnergy and Environment Impacts: 2 fractional worksWater Governance and Inf…2Water Governance and Infrastructure: 2 fractional worksUrban and Rural Developm…2Urban and Rural Development Challenges: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 2 fractional worksMigration and Labor Dynamics: 2 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases2Genomics and Rare Diseases: 2 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 2 fractional worksSoutheast Asian Sociopolitical Studies: 2 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political SciencePollutionUrban Studies3 others

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

  1. 1 South Asian Studies and Conflicts Political Science and International Relations 3 works
  2. 2 Social and Economic Development in India Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  3. 3 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 2 works
  4. 4 Water Governance and Infrastructure Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  5. 5 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 2 works
  6. 6 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  7. 7 Migration and Labor Dynamics Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  8. 8 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 2 works
  9. 9 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 2 works
  10. 10 Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies Political Science and International Relations 2 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 available27.2%not open72.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.3%domestic only75.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Centre for Policy Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Centre for Policy Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00067% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Centre for Policy Research0.00049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Centre for Policy Research 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 2025Centre for Policy Research9.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.2% in 2015.

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