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NIIT (India)

In research, NIIT (India) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#8,217 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Science (Computer Science is 4.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,162
of 22,385 · #17,658 all time
Rank in India
#805
of 1,562
Research works
577
▲ 40% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.4k
5.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
NIIT (India)

What is NIIT (India) 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 #8,217 of 10,670 6.0%92 #12742

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where NIIT (India) 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 NIIT (India) work in?

In 2022-now, 63% of research at NIIT (India) is in Physical Sciences, 25% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (35%), Engineering (19%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 109 fractional works · 63.1% of its workComputer Science: 61 fractional works · 35.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 19 fractional works · 10.9% of its workInformation Systems: 18 fractional works · 10.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 33 fractional works · 19.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 43 fractional works · 24.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 16 fractional works · 9.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 4.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 5.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKNIIT (India)173fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences63%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences25%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science6135.5%
    2. Engineering3319.1%
    3. Environmental Science95.1%
    4. Materials Science20.9%
    5. Energy10.7%
    6. Chemistry10.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.5%
    8. Mathematics10.5%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting169.1%
    2. Social Sciences158.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance52.9%
    4. Decision Sciences31.7%
    5. Psychology31.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.8%
    1. Medicine84.5%
    2. Health Professions31.9%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences42.4%
    2. Neuroscience31.5%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.4%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does NIIT (India) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science takes 4.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer ScienceField · 61.3 works4.6×
← 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: 0.52× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.93× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.09× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.56× its world share, 61 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.27× its world share, 33 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.03× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.71× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.81× its world share, 16 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.71× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.34× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.53× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.56×61 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting2.81×16 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.71×3 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.34×5 works
  5. Engineering1.27×33 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.09×1 works
  7. Environmental Science1.03×9 works
  8. Neuroscience0.93×3 works
  9. Energy0.79×1 works
  10. Health Professions0.71×3 works
  11. Social Sciences0.70×15 works
  12. Psychology0.53×3 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.52×4 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.39×0 works
  15. Mathematics0.39×1 works
  16. Chemistry0.32×1 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.27×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.27×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.26×2 works
  20. Dentistry0.26×0 works
  21. Medicine0.24×8 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.23×1 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×2 works
  24. Nursing0.13×0 works
  25. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.12×0 works

Who are the top researchers at NIIT (India)?

Ranked on the quality score, Sugata Mitra, Thota Sivasankar and Sunil Khanna lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NIIT (India).

  1. 1 Sugata Mitra India · #1,065,135 worldwide 1.4k citations · 92 works
  2. 2 Thota Sivasankar India · #2,189,469 worldwide 404 citations · 39 works
  3. 3 Sunil Khanna India · #2,491,059 worldwide 1.2k citations · 38 works
  4. 4 Ritu Dangwal India · #2,679,464 worldwide 562 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Parth Surendra Bhoyar India · #3,385,912 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Yash Agarwal India · #4,221,596 worldwide 281 citations · 47 works
  7. 7 Kritika Jain India · #4,626,035 worldwide 171 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Udayan Banerjee India · #4,922,672 worldwide 46 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Vikas Upadhyaya India · #4,946,076 worldwide 77 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 S. V. M. Maharaj India · #5,080,149 worldwide 177 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at NIIT (India)

What are the most cited papers from NIIT (India)?

The most cited paper from NIIT (India) is "Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy" (Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al., 2023), with 4,365 citations. Next come "Decolorization of textile azo dyes by aerobic bacterial consortium" (211) and "Provably Secure and Lightweight Certificateless Signature Scheme for IIoT Environments" (208).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. · International Journal of Information Management Open access 11 Mar 2023 4,365
2 Decolorization of textile azo dyes by aerobic bacterial consortium Bella Devassy Tony, Dinesh Kumar Goyal, Sunil Khanna · International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 25 Feb 2009 211
3 Provably Secure and Lightweight Certificateless Signature Scheme for IIoT Environments Arijit Karati, SK Hafizul Islam, Marimuthu Karuppiah · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 18 Jan 2018 208
4 Fuzzy Support Vector Machine for bankruptcy prediction Arindam Chaudhuri, Kajal De · Applied Soft Computing 5 Nov 2010 173
5 Provably Secure Identity-Based Signcryption Scheme for Crowdsourced Industrial Internet of Things Environments Arijit Karati, SK Hafizul Islam, G. P. Biswas et al. · IEEE Internet of Things Journal 18 Aug 2017 167
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at NIIT (India)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Fuzzy Logic, Internet of Things, Decision Support System and Information Technology.

▲ 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. Machine Learning28▲ 4.9×46 topics
  2. Deep Learning26▲ 4.4×50 topics
  3. Artificial Intelligence19▲ 7.7×20 topics
  4. Data Mining13▲ 11×8 topics
  5. Fuzzy Logic12▲ 28×4 topics
  6. Internet of Things11▲ 7.7×14 topics
  7. Decision Support System11▲ 38×3 topics
  8. Neural Networks10▲ 3.7×25 topics
  9. Information Technology10▲ 12×5 topics
  10. E-Learning8▲ 5.0×9 topics
  11. Healthcare8▲ 3.9×7 topics
  12. Education7▲ 2.4×9 topics
  13. IoT Security7▲ 13×3 topics
  14. Social Media7▲ 2.9×9 topics
  15. Accounting Information System7▲ 78×1 topic
  16. Security7▲ 5.8×12 topics
  17. Systems Analysis and Design7▲ 78×1 topic
  18. Natural Language Processing6▲ 15×6 topics
  19. Big Data6▲ 3.7×13 topics
  20. Convolutional Neural Networks6▲ 4.4×10 topics
  21. Supply Chain Management6▲ 3.6×8 topics
  22. Blockchain5▲ 14×2 topics
  23. E-commerce5▲ 5.5×6 topics
  24. Cybersecurity5▲ 12×4 topics
  25. Anomaly Detection5▲ 10×5 topics
  26. Knowledge Management5▲ 4.9×3 topics
  27. Intrusion Detection4▲ 18×4 topics
  28. Expert Systems4▲ 23×1 topic
  29. Information System4▲ 27×1 topic
  30. Wireless Sensor Networks4▲ 5.7×8 topics
  31. Smart Cities4▲ 9.5×4 topics
  32. Higher Education4▲ 4.5×5 topics
  33. Authentication4▲ 16×3 topics
  34. IoT4▲ 6.3×8 topics
  35. Computer Vision4▲ 7.4×4 topics
  36. Digital Certificate4▲ 22×1 topic
  37. Gamification4▲ 14×1 topic
  38. DDoS Attacks3▲ 17×1 topic
  39. Network Security3▲ 16×1 topic
  40. Privacy3▲ 6.7×5 topics

Which research topics does NIIT (India) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Decision Support System Applications, Edcuational Technology Systems, Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning and Network Security and Intrusion Detection.

Decision Support System …7Decision Support System Applications: 7 fractional worksEdcuational Technology Systems: 4 fractional worksBlockchain Technology in…4Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning: 4 fractional worksNetwork Security and Int…3Network Security and Intrusion Detection: 3 fractional worksMultimedia Learning Systems: 2 fractional worksManagement and Optimization Techniques: 2 fractional worksSMEs Development and Dig…2SMEs Development and Digital Marketing: 2 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 2 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 2 fractional worksAntenna Design and Analysis: 2 fractional works
Management Information SystemsArtificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsComputer Networks and Communications3 others

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

  1. 1 Decision Support System Applications Management Information Systems 7 works
  2. 2 Edcuational Technology Systems Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  3. 3 Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning Information Systems 4 works
  4. 4 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 3 works
  5. 5 Multimedia Learning Systems Information Systems 2 works
  6. 6 Management and Optimization Techniques Strategy and Management 2 works
  7. 7 SMEs Development and Digital Marketing Demography 2 works
  8. 8 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  9. 9 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 2 works
  10. 10 Antenna Design and Analysis Aerospace Engineering 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 available34.8%not open65.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

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

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has NIIT (India)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% 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 NIIT (India) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00056% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%NIIT (India)0.00087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of NIIT (India) 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 2025NIIT (India)6.1% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.9% in 2022.

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