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Indian Air Force

In research, Indian Air Force stands highest in Physical Sciences (#14,606 of 17,446 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#15,225 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,294
of 22,385 · #20,528 all time
Rank in India
#996
of 1,562
Research works
386
▲ 38% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.6k
4.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Indian Air Force

What is Indian Air Force 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
Physical SciencesDomain #14,606 of 17,446 3.0%125
Health SciencesDomain #15,225 of 16,688 3.0%136

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Indian Air Force 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 Indian Air Force work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research at Indian Air Force is in Health Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (29%), Engineering (15%), Arts and Humanities (14%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 53 fractional works · 36.0% of its workMedicine: 42 fractional works · 28.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPhysiology: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 6.7% of its workOccupational Therapy: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 44 fractional works · 29.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 20 fractional works · 13.8% of its workPhilosophy: 7 fractional works · 4.8% of its workReligious studies: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 6.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 fractional works · 4.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 41 fractional works · 28.1% of its workEngineering: 22 fractional works · 14.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 6.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 6.1% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKIndian Air Force147fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences36%Social Sciences30%

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. Medicine4228.8%
    2. Health Professions106.7%
    3. Dentistry00.3%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities2013.8%
    2. Psychology106.9%
    3. Social Sciences53.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting32.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.9%
    6. Decision Sciences21.6%
    1. Engineering2214.8%
    2. Environmental Science74.5%
    3. Computer Science63.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy32.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.0%
    6. Materials Science10.7%
    7. Energy10.6%
    8. Chemistry10.4%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Neuroscience43.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
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: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.83× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.37× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.99× its world share, 22 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.91× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.96× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.53× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.50× its world share, 42 worksMedicineNursing: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 4.79× its world share, 20 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.67× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.60× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.88× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.27× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities4.79×20 works
  2. Health Professions2.53×10 works
  3. Psychology2.27×10 works
  4. Neuroscience1.83×4 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.60×2 works
  6. Medicine1.50×42 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.37×1 works
  8. Engineering0.99×22 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.96×3 works
  10. Environmental Science0.91×7 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.88×3 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.67×3 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.66×2 works
  14. Dentistry0.64×0 works
  15. Energy0.62×1 works
  16. Computer Science0.49×6 works
  17. Nursing0.46×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.34×3 works
  19. Social Sciences0.27×5 works
  20. Chemistry0.25×1 works
  21. Materials Science0.19×1 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×1 works
  23. Mathematics0.10×0 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Indian Air Force?

Ranked on the quality score, M. C. Nataraja, ANAND KUMAR ASHODHIYA and Arjun Subramaniam lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Indian Air Force.

  1. 1 M. C. Nataraja India · #2,367,278 worldwide 1.4k citations · 44 works
  2. 2 ANAND KUMAR ASHODHIYA India · #2,606,030 worldwide 1 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Arjun Subramaniam India · #2,956,113 worldwide 170 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Saifullah Khalid India · #3,310,093 worldwide 442 citations · 76 works
  5. 5 Shreya Pandit India · #4,154,766 worldwide 151 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Sudhanshu Shekhar Mohapatra India · #4,838,784 worldwide 6 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Robin Malik India · #4,856,453 worldwide 18 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 V Raghunandan India · #4,891,737 worldwide 10 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Ranjan Sarkar India · #4,912,898 worldwide 20 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Rahul Dev India · #4,938,077 worldwide 19 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Indian Air Force

What are the most cited papers from Indian Air Force?

The most cited paper from Indian Air Force is "Burnout and Resilience among Frontline Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study in the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, North India" (Sinu Jose, Manju Dhandapani, Maneesha C Cyriac, 2020), with 190 citations. Next come "Systematic exploration of heat wave impact on mortality and urban heat island: A review from 2000 to 2022" (174) and "Correlation of visceral body fat with waist–hip ratio, waist circumference and body mass index in healthy adults: A cross sectional study" (146).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Burnout and Resilience among Frontline Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study in the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, North India Sinu Jose, Manju Dhandapani, Maneesha C Cyriac · Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine Open access 2 Dec 2020 190
2 Systematic exploration of heat wave impact on mortality and urban heat island: A review from 2000 to 2022 Namita Yadav, Kushagra Rajendra, Amit Awasthi et al. · Urban Climate 4 Aug 2023 174
3 Correlation of visceral body fat with waist–hip ratio, waist circumference and body mass index in healthy adults: A cross sectional study Tukaram Gadekar, Puja Dudeja, Ipsita Basu et al. · Medical Journal Armed Forces India Open access Feb 2018 146
4 Caregiver Burden and Quality of Life of Key Caregivers of Patients with Dementia Garima Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar Tripathi, Sarvada Chandra Tiwari et al. · Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine Open access Mar 2016 121
5 Zoonotic cases of camelpox infection in India Bidhan Chandra Bera et al. · Veterinary Microbiology 25 Apr 2011 114
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Indian Air Force?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Philosophy, Dalit Politics, Partition of India, Physical Fitness, Culture, Buddhism, South Asia and Peer Review.

▲ 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. Epidemiology9▲ 1.57×35 topics
  2. Philosophy7▲ 10×2 topics
  3. Culture6▲ 7.4×2 topics
  4. Dalit Politics6▲ 289×1 topic
  5. Partition of India6▲ 289×1 topic
  6. Physical Fitness6▲ 27×2 topics
  7. Buddhism5▲ 198×1 topic
  8. South Asia5▲ 198×1 topic
  9. COVID-195▲ 2.7×13 topics
  10. Peer Review4▲ 78×3 topics
  11. Public Health4▲ 1.81×12 topics
  12. Injuries3▲ 73×2 topics
  13. Social Justice3▲ 3.8×2 topics
  14. Cancer Risk3▲ 9.7×2 topics
  15. Mortality3▲ 3.8×8 topics
  16. Emergency Responders3▲ 114×1 topic
  17. Firefighters3▲ 114×1 topic
  18. Health Effects3▲ 3.3×4 topics
  19. Neuroscience3▲ 6.7×2 topics
  20. Occupational Safety3▲ 20×2 topics
  21. Dance Movement Therapy3▲ 122×1 topic
  22. Injury Patterns3▲ 122×1 topic
  23. Open Access3▲ 18×2 topics
  24. Research Dissemination3▲ 79×2 topics
  25. Scholarly Communication3▲ 61×2 topics
  26. Conflict Resolution2▲ 42×2 topics
  27. Immune System2▲ 6.9×2 topics
  28. Microgravity2▲ 87×1 topic
  29. Spaceflight2▲ 87×1 topic
  30. Analytics2▲ 18×1 topic
  31. Business Intelligence2▲ 18×1 topic
  32. Ethnomusicology2▲ 40×2 topics
  33. Feminism2▲ 5.4×2 topics
  34. Environmental Sustainability2▲ 8.7×2 topics
  35. Radiation Therapy2▲ 10×2 topics
  36. BAP1 mutations2▲ 80×1 topic
  37. Cultural Conservation2▲ 53×1 topic
  38. Ecomusicology2▲ 57×1 topic
  39. Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma2▲ 80×1 topic
  40. Visual Fatigue2▲ 32×2 topics

Which research topics does Indian Air Force publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: South Asian Studies and Diaspora, Indian and Buddhist Studies, Occupational Health and Performance and Diversity and Impact of Dance.

South Asian Studies and Diaspora: 6 fractional worksIndian and Buddhist Studies: 5 fractional worksOccupational Health and Performance: 3 fractional worksDiversity and Impact of Dance: 3 fractional worksSpaceflight effects on biology: 2 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 2 fractional worksDiverse Musicological St…2Diverse Musicological Studies: 2 fractional worksOccupational and environmental lung diseases: 2 fractional worksErgonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders: 2 fractional worksLiterary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics: 2 fractional works
PhilosophyReligious studiesOccupational TherapyExperimental and Cognitive Psychology6 others

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

  1. 1 South Asian Studies and Diaspora Philosophy 6 works
  2. 2 Indian and Buddhist Studies Religious studies 5 works
  3. 3 Occupational Health and Performance Occupational Therapy 3 works
  4. 4 Diversity and Impact of Dance Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 3 works
  5. 5 Spaceflight effects on biology Physiology 2 works
  6. 6 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 2 works
  7. 7 Diverse Musicological Studies Music 2 works
  8. 8 Occupational and environmental lung diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders Social Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Literature and Literary Theory 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 available59.4%not open40.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.8%domestic only91.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Indian Air Force's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher 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 Indian Air Force as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00050% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Indian Air Force0.00064% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Indian Air Force 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Indian Air Force3.1% in 2025

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 4.5% in 2021.

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