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Himalayan Environment Research Institute

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Research works
7
▼ 62% vs 2018-21
Citations
203
29.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
100%
world 18%
Himalayan Environment Research Institute

Not ranked overall: Himalayan Environment Research Institute is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Himalayan Environment Research Institute work in?

In all years, 73% of research at Himalayan Environment Research Institute is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%), Medicine (15%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 72.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 54.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 31.1% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 14.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 10.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 16.9% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 14.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 7.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKHimalayanEnvironment…7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences73%Health Sciences17%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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science454.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences114.8%
    3. Engineering01.0%
    4. Chemical Engineering00.9%
    5. Computer Science00.7%
    6. Energy00.7%
    1. Medicine114.8%
    2. Health Professions02.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology02.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.9%
    1. Social Sciences03.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
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: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Immunology and Microbiology: 13.80× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Environmental Science: 7.55× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.63× its world share, 0 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 13.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology13.80×0 works
  2. Environmental Science7.55×0 works
  3. Medicine1.63×0 works
  4. Health Professions1.32×0 works
  5. Social Sciences0.82×0 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.73×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Himalayan Environment Research Institute?

The most cited paper from Himalayan Environment Research Institute is "Light-absorbing impurities accelerate glacier melt in the Central Tibetan Plateau" (Xiaofei Li, Shichang Kang, Xiaobo He et al., 2017), with 137 citations. Next come "Preliminary Health Risk Assessment of Potentially Toxic Metals in Surface Water of the Himalayan Rivers, Nepal" (117) and "Major ions and trace elements of two selected rivers near Everest region, southern Himalayas, Nepal" (93).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Light-absorbing impurities accelerate glacier melt in the Central Tibetan Plateau Xiaofei Li, Shichang Kang, Xiaobo He et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 28 Feb 2017 137
2 Preliminary Health Risk Assessment of Potentially Toxic Metals in Surface Water of the Himalayan Rivers, Nepal Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang, Chhatra Mani Sharma et al. · Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 12 Oct 2016 117
3 Major ions and trace elements of two selected rivers near Everest region, southern Himalayas, Nepal Rukumesh Paudyal, Shichang Kang, Chhatra Mani Sharma et al. · Environmental Earth Sciences 19 Dec 2015 93
4 Light-absorbing impurities in a southern Tibetan Plateau glacier: Variations and potential impact on snow albedo and radiative forcing Xiaofei Li, Shichang Kang, Guoshuai Zhang et al. · Atmospheric Research 12 Oct 2017 85
5 Assessment of water quality and health risks for toxic trace elements in urban Phewa and remote Gosainkunda lakes, Nepal Dipesh Rupakheti, Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang et al. · Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal 7 Mar 2017 79
All 41 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Himalayan Environment Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Insects and Parasite Interactions, Parasites and Host Interactions, Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment and Disaster Management and Resilience.

Insects and Parasite Interactions: 0 fractional worksParasites and Host Interactions: 0 fractional worksParasitic Diseases Research and Treatment: 0 fractional worksDisaster Management and Resilience: 0 fractional worksAir Quality Monitoring and Forecasting: 0 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Chil…0Global Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional worksViral Infections and Outbreaks Research: 0 fractional worksIndoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure: 0 fractional worksAir Quality and Health I…0Air Quality and Health Impacts: 0 fractional works
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisParasitologyInfectious DiseasesSociology and Political Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Insects and Parasite Interactions Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  2. 2 Parasites and Host Interactions Parasitology 0 works
  3. 3 Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment Infectious Diseases 0 works
  4. 4 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting Environmental Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  7. 7 Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research Infectious Diseases 0 works
  8. 8 Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  9. 9 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  10. 10 Water Quality and Pollution Assessment Water Science and Technology 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 available33.0%not open67.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors100.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Himalayan Environment Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% 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 Himalayan Environment Research Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000045% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Himalayan Environment Research Institute0.0000022% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Himalayan Environment Research Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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