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Ministry of Earth Sciences

In research, Ministry of Earth Sciences stands highest in Environmental Science (#1,469 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#6,089 of 10,670 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#693 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 48.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,535
of 22,385 · #9,777 all time
Rank in India
#766
of 1,562
Research works
7.7k
▲ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
129k
16.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.68×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Ministry of Earth Sciences

What is Ministry of Earth Sciences 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
Environmental ScienceField #1,469 of 3,334 5.9%620 #1785
Physical SciencesDomain #6,089 of 10,670 6.0%1,594 #4565
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #693 of 1,088 5.2%675 #784
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #430 of 544 5.1%331 #742
EngineeringField #4,743 of 5,901 7.9%176 #5432
OceanographySubfield #132 of 158 5.0%174 #420
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,655 of 3,157 9.7%73 #3722
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #256 of 294 5.0%383 #489
Environmental EngineeringSubfield #294 of 336 8.4%66 #652
GeophysicsSubfield #201 of 225 4.7%72 #594

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ministry of Earth Sciences 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Environmental Science#1,785 #1,469
  2. Physical Sciences#4,565 #6,089
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#784 #693
  4. Global and Planetary Change#742 #430
  5. Engineering#5,432 #4,743
  6. Oceanography#420 #132
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#3,722 #2,655
  8. Atmospheric Science#489 #256
  9. Environmental Engineering#652 #294
  10. Geophysics#594 #201
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Ministry of Earth Sciences work in?

In 2022-now, 91% of research at Ministry of Earth Sciences is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (38%), Environmental Science (35%), Engineering (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,898 fractional works · 91.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 798 fractional works · 38.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 449 fractional works · 21.6% of its workOceanography: 208 fractional works · 10.0% of its workGeophysics: 84 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 29 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 721 fractional works · 34.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 378 fractional works · 18.2% of its workEcology: 85 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 81 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 52 fractional works · 2.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 33 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPollution: 29 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 20 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 218 fractional works · 10.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 50 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 33 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 32 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 23 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 83 fractional works · 4.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 38 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 33 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 29 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 17 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 119 fractional works · 5.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 83 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPlant Science: 26 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAquatic Science: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 32 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 30 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 23 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMinistry of EarthSciences2,080fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences2%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences79838.4%
    2. Environmental Science72134.7%
    3. Engineering21810.5%
    4. Computer Science834.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy331.6%
    6. Materials Science180.9%
    7. Energy170.8%
    8. Chemistry50.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering30.1%
    10. Mathematics30.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences834.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology301.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology30.2%
    4. Neuroscience20.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
    1. Social Sciences140.7%
    2. Decision Sciences60.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities40.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.2%
    5. Psychology30.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting20.1%
    1. Medicine231.1%
    2. Health Professions50.2%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ministry of Earth Sciences specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 48.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 448.5 works49×
  2. OceanographySubfield · 207.8 works36×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 798.1 works24×
  4. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 378.5 works24×
  5. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 29.5 works12×
  6. GeophysicsSubfield · 84.4 works12×
  7. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 80.5 works7.2×
← 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: 0.84× its world share, 83 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 30 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.41× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.51× its world share, 83 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 24.47× its world share, 798 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.86× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.70× its world share, 218 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.98× its world share, 721 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 18 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.71× its world share, 33 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 23 worksMedicineNursing: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 24.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences24.47×798 works
  2. Environmental Science6.98×721 works
  3. Energy0.86×16 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.84×83 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy0.71×33 works
  6. Engineering0.70×218 works
  7. Computer Science0.51×83 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.41×3 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.28×6 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.27×30 works
  11. Materials Science0.25×18 works
  12. Nursing0.20×2 works
  13. Chemistry0.16×5 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×3 works
  15. Mathematics0.11×3 works
  16. Health Professions0.09×5 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.08×3 works
  18. Neuroscience0.07×2 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.07×4 works
  21. Medicine0.06×23 works
  22. Social Sciences0.05×14 works
  23. Psychology0.04×2 works
  24. Veterinary0.03×0 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×2 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ministry of Earth Sciences?

Ranked on the quality score, Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, C. C. Bajish and Deepjyoti Goswami lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ministry of Earth Sciences.

  1. 1 Madhavan Nair Rajeevan India · #165,212 worldwide 18k citations · 265 works
  2. 2 C. C. Bajish India · #1,422,336 worldwide 606 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Deepjyoti Goswami India · #1,633,263 worldwide 491 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 N. Lathika India · #1,666,766 worldwide 431 citations · 132 works
  5. 5 Deviram Garlapati India · #1,692,358 worldwide 1.8k citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Shubham Tripathi India · #1,957,878 worldwide 400 citations · 129 works
  7. 7 Waliur Rahaman India · #1,992,221 worldwide 1.6k citations · 100 works
  8. 8 Babula Jena India · #2,065,041 worldwide 1k citations · 51 works
  9. 9 Vyasulu V. Akkiraju India · #2,298,770 worldwide 475 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Avinash Kumar India · #2,354,063 worldwide 1.1k citations · 42 works
All ranked researchers at Ministry of Earth Sciences

What are the most cited papers from Ministry of Earth Sciences?

The most cited paper from Ministry of Earth Sciences is "Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation" (Lisa V. Alexander et al., 2006), with 4,549 citations. Next come "Tropical cyclones and climate change" (3,246) and "Increasing Trend of Extreme Rain Events Over India in a Warming Environment" (2,128).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation Lisa V. Alexander et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Open access 14 Mar 2006 4,549
2 Tropical cyclones and climate change Thomas R. Knutson, John Leonard McBride, Johnny C. L. Chan et al. · Nature Geoscience Open access 21 Feb 2010 3,246
3 Increasing Trend of Extreme Rain Events Over India in a Warming Environment B. N. Goswami, V. Venugopal, Debasis Sengupta et al. · Science 30 Nov 2006 2,128
4 Development of a new high spatial resolution (0.25° × 0.25°) long period (1901-2010) daily gridded rainfall data set over India and its comparison with existing data sets over the region Damodara S. Pai, Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, O. P. Sreejith et al. · MAUSAM Open access 2014 2,073
5 Biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their synergistic effect with antibiotics: a study against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria A. Mohammed Fayaz, K. Balaji, M. Girilal et al. · Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine 16 May 2009 1,423
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Which keywords describe research at Ministry of Earth Sciences?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Ocean Circulation, Remote Sensing, Data Assimilation, Hydrological Cycle, Extreme Events and Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

▲ 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. Climate Change657▲ 12×71 topics
  2. Global Warming371▲ 42×12 topics
  3. Ocean Circulation267▲ 94×3 topics
  4. Remote Sensing248▲ 9.8×31 topics
  5. Data Assimilation242▲ 71×4 topics
  6. Hydrological Cycle240▲ 114×2 topics
  7. Extreme Events185▲ 96×2 topics
  8. Greenhouse Gas Emissions182▲ 32×7 topics
  9. Climate Modeling180▲ 116×1 topic
  10. Precipitation Extremes180▲ 116×1 topic
  11. Boundary Layer167▲ 64×4 topics
  12. Probabilistic Forecasting167▲ 41×3 topics
  13. Ensemble Kalman Filter160▲ 75×2 topics
  14. Convective Parameterization159▲ 133×1 topic
  15. Mesoscale Modeling159▲ 133×1 topic
  16. Tropical Cyclones135▲ 113×2 topics
  17. Air Quality130▲ 33×6 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise128▲ 49×3 topics
  19. Machine Learning110▲ 1.59×64 topics
  20. Hydrological Modeling108▲ 22×5 topics
  21. Hurricanes98▲ 137×1 topic
  22. Storm Surge98▲ 137×1 topic
  23. Satellite Observations85▲ 41×3 topics
  24. Climate Change Impact75▲ 16×6 topics
  25. Oceanic Modeling71▲ 96×1 topic
  26. Tidal Analysis71▲ 96×1 topic
  27. Climate70▲ 35×2 topics
  28. Validation68▲ 36×2 topics
  29. Precipitation66▲ 65×2 topics
  30. Aerosols60▲ 41×1 topic
  31. Atmospheric Dust60▲ 107×1 topic
  32. Estimation59▲ 68×2 topics
  33. Spatial Interpolation58▲ 65×2 topics
  34. Rainfall57▲ 134×1 topic
  35. Satellite57▲ 134×1 topic
  36. Wave Modeling56▲ 52×2 topics
  37. Forecasting47▲ 12×6 topics
  38. Chemical Composition46▲ 23×3 topics
  39. Particulate Matter46▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Atmospheric Aerosols46▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does Ministry of Earth Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Climate variability and …180Climate variability and models: 180 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 159 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 98 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 71 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 60 fractional worksPrecipitation Measuremen…57Precipitation Measurement and Analysis: 57 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 46 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 40 fractional worksOcean Waves and Remote Sensing: 38 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 29 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceOceanographyGeophysics

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 180 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 159 works
  3. 3 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 98 works
  4. 4 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 71 works
  5. 5 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 60 works
  6. 6 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 57 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 46 works
  8. 8 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 40 works
  9. 9 Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing Oceanography 38 works
  10. 10 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 29 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 available41.8%not open58.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.9%domestic only85.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ministry of Earth Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher 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 Ministry of Earth Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Ministry of Earth Sciences0.0088% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ministry of Earth Sciences 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 2025Ministry of Earth Sciences6.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.1% in 2014.

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