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Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

In research, Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,836 of 12,888 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#2,765 of 3,409 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#6,638 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Food Science and Plant Science — Food Science is 9.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#12,388
of 28,054 · #11,820 all time
Rank in Pakistan
#135
of 241
Research works
1.5k
▲ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
25k
17.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
42%
world 28%

What is Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research 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
Physical SciencesDomain #7,836 of 12,888 9.1%115 #7333
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,765 of 3,409 10.0%75 #4304
Life SciencesDomain #6,638 of 7,800 10.7%112 #10086

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research 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. Physical Sciences#7,333 #7,836
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#4,304 #2,765
  3. Life Sciences#10,086 #6,638
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 Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Food Science takes 9.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Food ScienceSubfield · 20.0 works9.6×
  2. Plant ScienceSubfield · 39.9 works8.3×
← 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: 5.72× its world share, 75 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.99× its world share, 29 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5.24× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 4.01× its world share, 17 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.62× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.70× its world share, 29 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.65× its world share, 36 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.07× its world share, 20 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.26× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.56× its world share, 30 worksMedicineNursing: 6.39× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research?

Ranked on the composite score, Asma Saeed, Rabia Nazir and Nighat Sultana lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research.

  1. 1 Asma Saeed Pakistan · #114,347 worldwide 183 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Rabia Nazir Pakistan · #802,404 worldwide 48 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Nighat Sultana Pakistan · #948,275 worldwide 17 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Quratulain Syed Pakistan · #1,178,792 worldwide 52 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 M. H. Hashmi Pakistan · #1,313,690 worldwide 20 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Razia Sultana Pakistan · #1,372,491 worldwide 23 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Muhammad Zia‐ur‐Rehman Pakistan · #1,416,521 worldwide 25 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Naseem Zahra Pakistan · #1,519,433 worldwide 15 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

Which keywords describe research at Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antioxidant, Medicinal Plants, Antioxidant Activity, Toxicity, Antioxidants, Flavonoids, Environmental Impact and Heavy Metals.

▲ 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. Antioxidant24▲ 13×40 topics
  2. Medicinal Plants22▲ 20×12 topics
  3. Antioxidant Activity22▲ 12×26 topics
  4. Environmental Impact18▲ 3.8×20 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress17▲ 3.8×26 topics
  6. Climate Change15▲ 2.0×24 topics
  7. Toxicity15▲ 12×16 topics
  8. Antioxidants14▲ 12×13 topics
  9. Biomedical Applications14▲ 4.2×21 topics
  10. Flavonoids13▲ 19×10 topics
  11. Heavy Metals12▲ 19×6 topics
  12. Nanomaterials12▲ 4.1×10 topics
  13. Phenolic Compounds11▲ 21×8 topics
  14. Bioavailability11▲ 20×6 topics
  15. Food Safety11▲ 13×11 topics
  16. Nanoparticles11▲ 3.0×17 topics
  17. Cancer Prevention10▲ 14×10 topics
  18. Antimicrobial10▲ 13×12 topics
  19. Antimicrobial Activity10▲ 22×8 topics
  20. Health Effects10▲ 5.9×10 topics
  21. Anti-inflammatory9▲ 12×20 topics
  22. Essential Oils9▲ 29×2 topics
  23. Polyphenols9▲ 18×5 topics
  24. Mode of Action8▲ 32×2 topics
  25. Bioactive Compounds8▲ 12×11 topics
  26. Health Benefits8▲ 9.1×13 topics
  27. Natural Products8▲ 20×5 topics
  28. Antibacterial Agents8▲ 30×2 topics
  29. Biosynthesis8▲ 18×6 topics
  30. Food Preservation8▲ 31×2 topics
  31. In Vitro Evaluation7▲ 38×1 topic
  32. Phytochemicals Screening7▲ 38×1 topic
  33. Ionic Liquids7▲ 9.0×9 topics
  34. Nutritional Significance7▲ 16×3 topics
  35. Herbal Medicine7▲ 8.4×9 topics
  36. Fungal Pathogens6▲ 18×3 topics
  37. Free Radicals6▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Biological Activities6▲ 14×7 topics
  39. Wastewater Treatment6▲ 9.6×8 topics
  40. Green Synthesis6▲ 11×3 topics

Which research topics does Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity, Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities, Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications.

Essential Oils and Antim…7Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity: 7 fractional worksPhytochemicals and Antio…6Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities: 6 fractional worksMycotoxins in Agricultur…5Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food: 5 fractional worksNanoparticles: synthesis…4Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications: 4 fractional worksAdsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal: 4 fractional worksFood Science and Nutritional Studies: 4 fractional worksHeavy metals in environm…4Heavy metals in environment: 4 fractional worksWater Quality and Pollution Assessment: 3 fractional worksHeavy Metals in Plants: 3 fractional worksEthnobotanical and Medic…3Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies: 3 fractional works
Food ScienceBiochemistryPlant ScienceMaterials Chemistry4 others

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

  1. 1 Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity Food Science 7 works
  2. 2 Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities Biochemistry 6 works
  3. 3 Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food Plant Science 5 works
  4. 4 Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications Materials Chemistry 4 works
  5. 5 Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal Water Science and Technology 4 works
  6. 6 Food Science and Nutritional Studies Nutrition and Dietetics 4 works
  7. 7 Heavy metals in environment Pollution 4 works
  8. 8 Water Quality and Pollution Assessment Water Science and Technology 3 works
  9. 9 Heavy Metals in Plants Analytical Chemistry 3 works
  10. 10 Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies Plant 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 available42.3%not open57.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.9%domestic only82.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% 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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