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North Eastern Space Applications Centre

In research, North Eastern Space Applications Centre stands highest in Physical Sciences (#10,046 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Global and Planetary Change, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science (Global and Planetary Change is 22.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#21,198
of 22,385 · #24,213 all time
Rank in India
#1,482
of 1,562
Research works
311
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.7k
5.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
45%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
North Eastern Space Applications Centre

What is North Eastern Space Applications Centre 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 #10,046 of 10,670 7.4%77 #14436

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where North Eastern Space Applications Centre 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 North Eastern Space Applications Centre work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research at North Eastern Space Applications Centre is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (45%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%), Engineering (14%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 112 fractional works · 85.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 60 fractional works · 45.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 22 fractional works · 16.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 13 fractional works · 10.0% of its workEcology: 8 fractional works · 5.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 5.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 6 fractional works · 4.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21 fractional works · 16.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 13 fractional works · 9.8% of its workGeophysics: 6 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 19 fractional works · 14.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 8 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 7.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 12 fractional works · 9.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNorth EasternSpace…132fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences85%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences4%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science6045.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2116.1%
    3. Engineering1914.2%
    4. Computer Science107.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy21.2%
    6. Chemistry10.5%
    7. Materials Science00.4%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences118.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Social Sciences43.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities10.6%
    1. Medicine21.2%
    2. Nursing00.1%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does North Eastern Space Applications Centre specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Global and Planetary Change takes 22.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 22.3 works22×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 21.3 works10×
  3. Environmental ScienceField · 59.7 works9.1×
← 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: 1.82× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.93× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.29× its world share, 21 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.95× its world share, 19 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.10× its world share, 60 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 10.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.29×21 works
  2. Environmental Science9.10×60 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.82×11 works
  4. Engineering0.95×19 works
  5. Computer Science0.93×10 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.54×0 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.52×2 works
  8. Chemistry0.33×1 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.33×1 works
  10. Nursing0.26×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.24×4 works
  12. Veterinary0.23×0 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.20×1 works
  14. Materials Science0.11×0 works
  15. Mathematics0.11×0 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.07×0 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  18. Medicine0.06×2 works

Who are the top researchers at North Eastern Space Applications Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, Gopal Sharma, Rocky Pebam and S. Sudhakar lead among researchers whose main affiliation is North Eastern Space Applications Centre.

  1. 1 Gopal Sharma India · #1,355,736 worldwide 621 citations · 34 works
  2. 2 Rocky Pebam India · #1,943,261 worldwide 377 citations · 37 works
  3. 3 S. Sudhakar India · #2,758,894 worldwide 1.7k citations · 58 works
  4. 4 Shyam Sundar Kundu India · #3,059,876 worldwide 901 citations · 73 works
  5. 5 Pallabi Pati India · #3,187,427 worldwide 225 citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Prakash Biswakarma India · #3,368,842 worldwide 92 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Jenita Mary Nongkynrih India · #3,459,708 worldwide 338 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Ritu Anilkumar India · #3,576,384 worldwide 49 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Arundhati Kundu India · #3,814,772 worldwide 60 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Nilay Nishant India · #3,823,734 worldwide 74 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at North Eastern Space Applications Centre

What are the most cited papers from North Eastern Space Applications Centre?

The most cited paper from North Eastern Space Applications Centre is "New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remote sensing: Comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities" (P. S. Roy et al., 2015), with 242 citations. Next come "Estimates of interseismic deformation in Northeast India from GPS measurements" (143) and "Flood inundation mapping and monitoring in Kaziranga National Park, Assam using Sentinel-1 SAR data" (118).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remote sensing: Comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities P. S. Roy et al. · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation Open access 29 Mar 2015 242
2 Estimates of interseismic deformation in Northeast India from GPS measurements Sridevi Jade, Malay Mukul, Anjan Kumar Bhattacharyya et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters 18 Sep 2007 143
3 Flood inundation mapping and monitoring in Kaziranga National Park, Assam using Sentinel-1 SAR data Suranjana Bhaswati Borah, Thota Sivasankar, Maganti Sri Ramya et al. · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 15 Aug 2018 118
4 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Classifications: A Perspective Survey Dibyajyoti Chutia, Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma et al. · Transactions in GIS 7 Aug 2015 115
5 Assessing and mapping flood hazard, vulnerability and risk in the Upper Brahmaputra River valley using stakeholders’ knowledge and multicriteria evaluation ( MCE ) Nabajit Hazarika, D. Barman, Arvind Kumar Das et al. · Journal of Flood Risk Management 27 Feb 2016 113
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Which keywords describe research at North Eastern Space Applications Centre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Disaster Management, Satellite Imagery, Flood Risk, Surface Water Mapping and Land Use Change.

▲ 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. Remote Sensing48▲ 30×25 topics
  2. Climate Change36▲ 10×33 topics
  3. Hydrological Modeling18▲ 58×5 topics
  4. Machine Learning12▲ 2.8×9 topics
  5. Disaster Management12▲ 57×2 topics
  6. Satellite Imagery11▲ 61×3 topics
  7. Flood Risk10▲ 96×1 topic
  8. Surface Water Mapping10▲ 102×1 topic
  9. Land Use Change10▲ 26×6 topics
  10. Deep Learning9▲ 2.0×16 topics
  11. Global Warming9▲ 15×4 topics
  12. Biomass Estimation8▲ 41×3 topics
  13. Sustainability8▲ 2.6×12 topics
  14. GIS8▲ 76×3 topics
  15. Climate7▲ 54×2 topics
  16. Sediment Transport7▲ 31×3 topics
  17. Water Resources6▲ 20×3 topics
  18. Global Change6▲ 17×2 topics
  19. Food Security6▲ 7.8×6 topics
  20. Phenology5▲ 58×1 topic
  21. Vegetation Monitoring5▲ 58×1 topic
  22. Model Evaluation5▲ 31×2 topics
  23. Agriculture5▲ 10×3 topics
  24. Support Vector Machines5▲ 12×3 topics
  25. Global Hydrology5▲ 54×1 topic
  26. Uncertainty Assessment5▲ 54×1 topic
  27. Vulnerability4▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Groundwater Potential4▲ 125×1 topic
  29. Machine Learning Models4▲ 125×1 topic
  30. Spatial Interpolation4▲ 75×2 topics
  31. Hydrological Cycle4▲ 31×2 topics
  32. Terrestrial Laser Scanning4▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Data Assimilation4▲ 17×3 topics
  34. Soil Properties4▲ 17×2 topics
  35. Hydrology4▲ 21×4 topics
  36. Hyperspectral4▲ 32×2 topics
  37. Hyperspectral Imaging4▲ 10×4 topics
  38. Ocean Circulation4▲ 20×3 topics
  39. Sea Level Rise4▲ 22×3 topics
  40. Hazard4▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does North Eastern Space Applications Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies and Groundwater and Watershed Analysis.

Flood Risk Assessment an…10Flood Risk Assessment and Management: 10 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agriculture: 5 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed …5Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 5 fractional worksGroundwater and Watershe…4Groundwater and Watershed Analysis: 4 fractional worksLandslides and related h…4Landslides and related hazards: 4 fractional worksSynthetic Aperture Radar…3Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques: 3 fractional worksRemote-Sensing Image Cla…3Remote-Sensing Image Classification: 3 fractional worksSoil and Land Suitability Analysis: 3 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 3 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 3 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEcologyWater Science and TechnologyEnvironmental Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 10 works
  2. 2 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 5 works
  3. 3 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 5 works
  4. 4 Groundwater and Watershed Analysis Environmental Engineering 4 works
  5. 5 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 4 works
  6. 6 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques Aerospace Engineering 3 works
  7. 7 Remote-Sensing Image Classification Media Technology 3 works
  8. 8 Soil and Land Suitability Analysis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 3 works
  9. 9 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 3 works
  10. 10 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 3 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 available44.8%not open55.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

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

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has North Eastern Space Applications Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 North Eastern Space Applications Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00042% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%North Eastern Space Applications Centre0.00047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of North Eastern Space Applications Centre 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 2025North Eastern Space Applications Centre7.4% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.2% in 2023.

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