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Karunya University

In research, Karunya University stands highest in Engineering (#716 of 6,636 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,490 of 12,888 worldwide) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (#521 of 2,318 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health Information Management, Neurology and Signal Processing — Health Information Management is 6.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,089
of 28,054 · #3,714 all time
Rank in India
#108
of 1,840
Research works
6.9k
▲ 96% vs 2013–17
Citations
72k
10.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
28%
world 28%

What is Karunya University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #716 of 6,636 12.2%837 #1558
Physical SciencesDomain #1,490 of 12,888 12.0%1,966 #2724
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #521 of 2,318 12.4%253 #1126
Health SciencesDomain #2,888 of 11,982 13.4%346 #5376
MedicineField #2,778 of 10,443 13.2%273 #7501
Computer ScienceField #1,252 of 4,667 11.1%670 #1834
Plant ScienceSubfield #457 of 1,395 15.9%133 #1341
Environmental ScienceField #1,435 of 3,551 17.0%154 #2446
Life SciencesDomain #3,260 of 7,800 11.2%417 #5727
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,473 of 3,409 13.9%219 #3073

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Karunya University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#1,558 #716
  2. Physical Sciences#2,724 #1,490
  3. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,126 #521
  4. Health Sciences#5,376 #2,888
  5. Medicine#7,501 #2,778
  6. Computer Science#1,834 #1,252
  7. Plant Science#1,341 #457
  8. Environmental Science#2,446 #1,435
  9. Life Sciences#5,727 #3,260
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#3,073 #1,473
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Karunya University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health Information Management takes 6.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Health Information ManagementSubfield · 44.7 works6.0×
  2. NeurologySubfield · 47.4 works5.8×
  3. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 46.3 works5.2×
  4. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 109.1 works4.2×
  5. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 153.0 works4.2×
  6. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 22.9 works3.8×
← 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: 1.57× its world share, 219 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.51× its world share, 80 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.28× its world share, 108 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.63× its world share, 6 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.17× its world share, 54 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.94× its world share, 670 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.54× its world share, 25 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.46× its world share, 39 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.90× its world share, 837 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 154 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.40× its world share, 143 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.46× its world share, 16 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.35× its world share, 22 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.33× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.81× its world share, 63 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.48× its world share, 273 worksMedicineNursing: 0.36× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.38× its world share, 36 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 30 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.73× its world share, 65 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 47 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Karunya University?

Ranked on the composite score, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, D. Jude Hemanth and D. Palanisamy lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Karunya University.

  1. 1 Steven Lawrence Fernandes India · #87,799 worldwide 211 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 D. Jude Hemanth India · #268,019 worldwide 292 citations · 63 works
  3. 3 D. Palanisamy India · #297,226 worldwide 117 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 D. Nirmal India · #435,621 worldwide 166 citations · 41 works
  5. 5 A. Ebenezer Jeyakumar India · #566,854 worldwide 64 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 K. Martin Sagayam India · #592,618 worldwide 69 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Getzi Jeba Leelipushpam Paulraj India · #622,390 worldwide 18 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 M. L. Valarmathi India · #635,602 worldwide 42 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 J. Ajayan India · #645,206 worldwide 153 citations · 57 works
  10. 10 Immanuel Johnraja Jebadurai India · #686,317 worldwide 17 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Karunya University

Which keywords describe research at Karunya University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, Feature Extraction, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Healthcare and Classification.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Deep Learning619▲ 6.2×74 topics
  2. Machine Learning476▲ 5.0×83 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks162▲ 7.5×13 topics
  4. Healthcare138▲ 4.2×13 topics
  5. Neural Networks132▲ 2.9×34 topics
  6. Internet of Things131▲ 5.1×22 topics
  7. Feature Extraction125▲ 9.3×10 topics
  8. Wireless Sensor Networks111▲ 8.4×19 topics
  9. Security109▲ 5.7×17 topics
  10. Classification100▲ 7.4×10 topics
  11. Medical Imaging99▲ 6.6×6 topics
  12. Image Processing95▲ 7.3×13 topics
  13. Data Mining91▲ 4.2×16 topics
  14. Environmental Monitoring90▲ 8.1×11 topics
  15. IoT89▲ 8.2×15 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence89▲ 2.2×35 topics
  17. IoT Security80▲ 8.5×3 topics
  18. Mechanical Properties78▲ 2.7×32 topics
  19. Transfer Learning74▲ 13×3 topics
  20. Medical Image Analysis65▲ 12×4 topics
  21. Big Data Analytics63▲ 10.0×5 topics
  22. Feature Selection63▲ 9.6×6 topics
  23. Smart Farming55▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Anomaly Detection52▲ 6.1×4 topics
  25. Cybersecurity51▲ 7.3×4 topics
  26. Convolutional Neural Network51▲ 11×4 topics
  27. Smart Cities50▲ 6.7×8 topics
  28. Image Segmentation50▲ 14×3 topics
  29. Privacy50▲ 5.8×6 topics
  30. Internet of Things (IoT)50▲ 15×2 topics
  31. Crop Yield Prediction49▲ 16×1 topic
  32. Plant Disease Detection49▲ 16×1 topic
  33. Computer Vision48▲ 6.0×5 topics
  34. Security and Privacy47▲ 8.4×3 topics
  35. Brain Tumor46▲ 23×1 topic
  36. MRI46▲ 19×1 topic
  37. Medical Diagnosis44▲ 16×2 topics
  38. Classification Models43▲ 16×1 topic
  39. Heart Disease Prediction43▲ 16×1 topic
  40. Human-Computer Interaction41▲ 8.0×5 topics

Which research topics does Karunya University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Smart Agriculture and AI, Brain Tumor Detection and Classification, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and AI in cancer detection.

Smart Agriculture and AI49Smart Agriculture and AI: 49 fractional worksBrain Tumor Detection an…46Brain Tumor Detection and Classification: 46 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 43 fractional worksAI in cancer detection38AI in cancer detection: 38 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 33 fractional worksNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection: 33 fractional worksIoT-based Smart Home Systems: 28 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing28IoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 28 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 28 fractional worksCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI: 28 fractional works
Plant ScienceNeurologyHealth Information ManagementArtificial Intelligence5 others

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

  1. 1 Smart Agriculture and AI Plant Science 49 works
  2. 2 Brain Tumor Detection and Classification Neurology 46 works
  3. 3 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Health Information Management 43 works
  4. 4 AI in cancer detection Artificial Intelligence 38 works
  5. 5 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 33 works
  6. 6 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 33 works
  7. 7 IoT-based Smart Home Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 28 works
  8. 8 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 28 works
  9. 9 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 28 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 diagnosis using AI Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 28 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 available28.1%not open71.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.8%domestic only88.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Karunya University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 96% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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