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National Centre for Earth Science Studies

In research, National Centre for Earth Science Studies stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,403 of 10,670 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#848 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Geophysics and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Geophysics is 32.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,238
of 22,385 · #15,066 all time
Rank in India
#812
of 1,562
Research works
843
▲ 97% vs 2018-21
Citations
12k
14.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.89×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
National Centre for Earth Science Studies

What is National Centre for Earth Science Studies 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
Physical SciencesDomain #7,403 of 10,670 6.2%198 #8712
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #848 of 1,088 6.1%70 #1279

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Centre for Earth Science Studies 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 National Centre for Earth Science Studies work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at National Centre for Earth Science Studies is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (28%), Environmental Science (22%), Computer Science (14%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 240 fractional works · 78.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 84 fractional works · 27.7% of its workGeophysics: 35 fractional works · 11.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 17 fractional works · 5.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 12 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOceanography: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 67 fractional works · 22.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 16 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 13 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPollution: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 43 fractional works · 14.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 16 fractional works · 5.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 15 fractional works · 5.1% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 35 fractional works · 11.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 22 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSoil Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 7.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 20 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 4.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKNational Centrefor Earth Scienc…304fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences7%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences8427.7%
    2. Environmental Science6722.0%
    3. Computer Science4314.0%
    4. Engineering3511.6%
    5. Materials Science41.4%
    6. Chemistry20.8%
    7. Physics and Astronomy20.7%
    8. Mathematics10.4%
    9. Energy10.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences155.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41.4%
    3. Neuroscience20.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Social Sciences113.5%
    2. Psychology41.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting31.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities31.0%
    5. Decision Sciences10.3%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    1. Medicine134.3%
    2. Health Professions51.7%
    3. Nursing20.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does National Centre for Earth Science Studies specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Geophysics takes 32.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeophysicsSubfield · 34.8 works33×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 84.4 works18×
← 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: 1.05× its world share, 15 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.80× its world share, 43 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17.67× its world share, 84 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.77× its world share, 35 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.44× its world share, 67 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.63× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 1.29× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.35× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 17.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences17.67×84 works
  2. Environmental Science4.44×67 works
  3. Computer Science1.80×43 works
  4. Nursing1.29×2 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.05×15 works
  6. Engineering0.77×35 works
  7. Health Professions0.63×5 works
  8. Chemistry0.49×2 works
  9. Neuroscience0.46×2 works
  10. Psychology0.40×4 works
  11. Materials Science0.39×4 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.35×0 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.35×3 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.33×2 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.33×3 works
  16. Energy0.32×1 works
  17. Mathematics0.31×1 works
  18. Decision Sciences0.29×1 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.27×4 works
  20. Social Sciences0.27×11 works
  21. Medicine0.22×13 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.10×0 works
  23. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×0 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at National Centre for Earth Science Studies?

Ranked on the quality score, S. Kaliraj, K. Anoop Krishnan and Arka Roy lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Centre for Earth Science Studies.

  1. 1 S. Kaliraj India · #443,846 worldwide 2.3k citations · 76 works
  2. 2 K. Anoop Krishnan India · #664,905 worldwide 3.1k citations · 95 works
  3. 3 Arka Roy India · #844,020 worldwide 265 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Kumar Batuk Joshi India · #1,270,279 worldwide 677 citations · 85 works
  5. 5 K. K. Ramachandran India · #1,666,310 worldwide 1.6k citations · 157 works
  6. 6 Vinu V. Dev India · #2,225,340 worldwide 537 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Upasana Swaroop Banerji India · #2,234,932 worldwide 722 citations · 40 works
  8. 8 V. Nandakumar India · #2,503,804 worldwide 557 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 G. R. Ravindra Kumar India · #2,552,501 worldwide 1.1k citations · 48 works
  10. 10 P. Arulbalaji India · #2,552,804 worldwide 1.2k citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at National Centre for Earth Science Studies

What are the most cited papers from National Centre for Earth Science Studies?

The most cited paper from National Centre for Earth Science Studies is "GIS and AHP Techniques Based Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones: a case study from Southern Western Ghats, India" (P. Arulbalaji, Damodharan Padmalal, K. Sreelash, 2019), with 722 citations. Next come "Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake" (545) and "Precambrian Geology of India" (537).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 GIS and AHP Techniques Based Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones: a case study from Southern Western Ghats, India P. Arulbalaji, Damodharan Padmalal, K. Sreelash · Scientific Reports Open access 14 Feb 2019 722
2 Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake Marco V. Cisternas, Brian F. Atwater, Fernando Torrejón et al. · Nature Open access Sep 2005 545
3 Precambrian Geology of India M. Ramakrishnan · Journal of the Geological Society of India Nov 1988 537
4 Environmental effects of river sand mining: a case from the river catchments of Vembanad lake, Southwest coast of India Damodharan Padmalal, K. Maya, S Sreebha et al. · Environmental Geology 29 Jun 2007 261
5 Characteristics of Deformation and Past Seismicity Associated with the 1819 Kutch Earthquake, Northwestern India C. P. Rajendran · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Jun 2001 242
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at National Centre for Earth Science Studies?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Deep Learning, Water Quality, Groundwater and Thermodynamic Modeling.

▲ 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 Change39▲ 4.7×34 topics
  2. Remote Sensing33▲ 9.0×18 topics
  3. Deep Learning26▲ 2.4×39 topics
  4. Machine Learning22▲ 2.1×34 topics
  5. Plate Tectonics19▲ 42×3 topics
  6. Environmental Impact18▲ 3.4×23 topics
  7. Tectonics17▲ 47×3 topics
  8. Water Quality14▲ 11×8 topics
  9. Groundwater13▲ 46×4 topics
  10. Thermodynamic Modeling12▲ 35×2 topics
  11. Geochronology12▲ 57×1 topic
  12. Zircon12▲ 57×1 topic
  13. Precipitation12▲ 80×2 topics
  14. Toxicity12▲ 8.7×8 topics
  15. Isotopes11▲ 108×1 topic
  16. Stable11▲ 123×1 topic
  17. Support Vector Machines10▲ 10×4 topics
  18. Heavy Metals9▲ 13×5 topics
  19. Hyperspectral Imaging9▲ 11×2 topics
  20. Sediment Transport9▲ 19×4 topics
  21. Geodetic Measurements9▲ 28×2 topics
  22. Subduction9▲ 39×3 topics
  23. Geological Mapping9▲ 36×2 topics
  24. Hydrological Modeling9▲ 12×5 topics
  25. Compositional Data Analysis8▲ 44×1 topic
  26. Contamination8▲ 31×3 topics
  27. Earthquakes8▲ 49×1 topic
  28. GIS8▲ 37×2 topics
  29. Mineral Prospectivity8▲ 44×1 topic
  30. Plate Boundaries8▲ 49×1 topic
  31. Groundwater Potential8▲ 98×1 topic
  32. Machine Learning Models8▲ 98×1 topic
  33. Multivariate Statistical Techniques8▲ 64×1 topic
  34. Water Quality Index8▲ 64×1 topic
  35. Tomography8▲ 14×3 topics
  36. Environmental Impacts8▲ 9.2×6 topics
  37. Pollution8▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Holocene7▲ 20×3 topics
  39. Geochemistry7▲ 33×4 topics
  40. Remediation7▲ 29×2 topics

Which research topics does National Centre for Earth Science Studies publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, earthquake and tectonic studies and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Geological and Geochemic…12Geological and Geochemical Analysis: 12 fractional worksGroundwater and Isotope …11Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry: 11 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic …8earthquake and tectonic studies: 8 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologi…8Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 8 fractional worksGroundwater and Watershed Analysis: 8 fractional worksWater Quality and Pollution Assessment: 8 fractional worksHeavy metals in environm…6Heavy metals in environment: 6 fractional worksGeochemistry and Element…6Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis: 6 fractional worksHigh-pressure geophysics…5High-pressure geophysics and materials: 5 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…5Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 5 fractional works
GeophysicsGeochemistry and PetrologyArtificial IntelligenceEnvironmental Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 12 works
  2. 2 Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry Geochemistry and Petrology 11 works
  3. 3 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 8 works
  4. 4 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 8 works
  5. 5 Groundwater and Watershed Analysis Environmental Engineering 8 works
  6. 6 Water Quality and Pollution Assessment Water Science and Technology 8 works
  7. 7 Heavy metals in environment Pollution 6 works
  8. 8 Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 6 works
  9. 9 High-pressure geophysics and materials Geophysics 5 works
  10. 10 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 5 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 available25.5%not open74.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.1%domestic only86.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Centre for Earth Science Studies's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 97% 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 National Centre for Earth Science Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%National Centre for Earth Science Studies0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of National Centre for Earth Science Studies 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 2025National Centre for Earth Science Studies6.7% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.5% in 2020.

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