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Physical Research Laboratory

In research, Physical Research Laboratory stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,501 of 10,670 worldwide), Physics and Astronomy (#596 of 1,417 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#698 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Physics and Astronomy (Astronomy and Astrophysics is 50.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,272
of 22,385 · #4,988 all time
Rank in India
#376
of 1,562
Research works
4.8k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
87k
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.91×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Physical Research Laboratory

What is Physical Research Laboratory 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 #3,501 of 10,670 4.7%493 #2413
Physics and AstronomyField #596 of 1,417 3.8%269 #603
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #698 of 1,088 5.6%94 #799
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield #179 of 254 4.1%63 #224
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #306 of 400 3.3%149 #534

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Physical Research Laboratory 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. Physical Sciences#2,413 #3,501
  2. Physics and Astronomy#603 #596
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#799 #698
  4. Nuclear and High Energy Physics#224 #179
  5. Astronomy and Astrophysics#534 #306
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 Physical Research Laboratory work in?

In 2022-now, 87% of research at Physical Research Laboratory is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (46%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (17%), Environmental Science (10%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 567 fractional works · 87.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 302 fractional works · 46.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 169 fractional works · 26.0% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 67 fractional works · 10.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 45 fractional works · 6.9% of its workRadiation: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInstrumentation: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 111 fractional works · 17.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 51 fractional works · 7.9% of its workGeophysics: 22 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOceanography: 15 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPaleontology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 65 fractional works · 10.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 21 fractional works · 3.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 42 fractional works · 6.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science: 19 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 13 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 44 fractional works · 6.7% of its workMedicine: 40 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 28 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPhysical ResearchLaboratory651fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences7%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. Physics and Astronomy30246.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences11117.0%
    3. Environmental Science6510.0%
    4. Engineering426.4%
    5. Computer Science192.9%
    6. Materials Science121.9%
    7. Chemistry121.8%
    8. Mathematics30.4%
    9. Energy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Medicine406.1%
    2. Health Professions30.4%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology132.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences81.2%
    3. Neuroscience50.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences50.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities20.4%
    3. Decision Sciences20.3%
    4. Psychology10.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Physical Research Laboratory specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 50.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 169.4 works50×
  2. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 67.0 works33×
  3. Physics and AstronomyField · 301.8 works21×
  4. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 51.4 works18×
  5. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 110.5 works11×
  6. GeophysicsSubfield · 22.4 works9.9×
← 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: 0.25× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 13 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.51× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.18× its world share, 12 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.37× its world share, 19 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.82× its world share, 110 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.43× its world share, 42 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.01× its world share, 65 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.55× its world share, 12 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 20.83× its world share, 302 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.32× its world share, 40 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 20.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy20.83×302 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.82×110 works
  3. Environmental Science2.01×65 works
  4. Chemistry1.18×12 works
  5. Materials Science0.55×12 works
  6. Neuroscience0.51×5 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.50×1 works
  8. Engineering0.43×42 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.37×13 works
  10. Computer Science0.37×19 works
  11. Mathematics0.34×3 works
  12. Medicine0.32×40 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.32×2 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.31×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.25×8 works
  16. Nursing0.21×1 works
  17. Energy0.20×1 works
  18. Veterinary0.19×0 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.18×1 works
  20. Health Professions0.15×3 works
  21. Dentistry0.14×0 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.13×2 works
  23. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×1 works
  24. Psychology0.07×1 works
  25. Social Sciences0.06×5 works
  26. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Physical Research Laboratory?

Ranked on the quality score, Manmohan M. Sarin, Lokesh Kumar Sahu and K. S. Virbhadra lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Physical Research Laboratory.

  1. 1 Manmohan M. Sarin India · #135,953 worldwide 14k citations · 199 works
  2. 2 Lokesh Kumar Sahu India · #286,919 worldwide 6.3k citations · 187 works
  3. 3 K. S. Virbhadra India · #318,419 worldwide 4.4k citations · 41 works
  4. 4 S. Krishnaswami India · #334,750 worldwide 8.1k citations · 146 works
  5. 5 Nidhi Tripathi India · #362,851 worldwide 1.8k citations · 85 works
  6. 6 Neeraj Rastogi India · #364,683 worldwide 4.9k citations · 194 works
  7. 7 Atinderpal Singh India · #398,037 worldwide 2.4k citations · 70 works
  8. 8 Srinivas Bikkina India · #639,777 worldwide 4k citations · 106 works
  9. 9 Sunil Kumar Singh India · #712,329 worldwide 5.3k citations · 157 works
  10. 10 Chandan Hati India · #732,255 worldwide 3.2k citations · 73 works
All ranked researchers at Physical Research Laboratory

What are the most cited papers from Physical Research Laboratory?

The most cited paper from Physical Research Laboratory is "THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES" (Michael Wiedenbeck, Paul Allé, Fernando Corfú et al., 1995), with 6,331 citations. Next come "Indian Ocean Experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo‐Asian haze" (1,469) and "Character and Spatial Distribution of OH/H 2 O on the Surface of the Moon Seen by M 3 on Chandrayaan-1" (862).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES Michael Wiedenbeck, Paul Allé, Fernando Corfú et al. · Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research Apr 1995 6,331
2 Indian Ocean Experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo‐Asian haze V. Ramanathan et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Open access Nov 2001 1,469
3 Character and Spatial Distribution of OH/H 2 O on the Surface of the Moon Seen by M 3 on Chandrayaan-1 Carle M. Pieters et al. · Science 25 Sep 2009 862
4 The Indian Ocean Experiment: Widespread Air Pollution from South and Southeast Asia Jos Lelieveld et al. · Science 9 Feb 2001 797
5 Extracting Work from a Single Heat Bath via Vanishing Quantum Coherence Marlan O. Scully, Muhammad Suhail Zubairy, Girish Saran Agarwal et al. · Science 6 Feb 2003 768
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Physical Research Laboratory?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Solar Wind, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Mars, Martian Surface, Dark Matter and Particle Physics.

▲ 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 Change58▲ 3.2×42 topics
  2. Solar Wind37▲ 62×2 topics
  3. Solar System Abundances32▲ 103×1 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets32▲ 103×1 topic
  5. Mars32▲ 147×1 topic
  6. Martian Surface32▲ 147×1 topic
  7. Dark Matter31▲ 41×3 topics
  8. Particle Physics28▲ 58×2 topics
  9. Remote Sensing27▲ 3.4×19 topics
  10. Air Quality23▲ 18×4 topics
  11. Electron Acceleration19▲ 45×2 topics
  12. Higgs Boson19▲ 58×1 topic
  13. High-Energy Collider19▲ 58×1 topic
  14. Ionosphere19▲ 53×1 topic
  15. Magnetosphere19▲ 53×1 topic
  16. Coronal Mass Ejections18▲ 77×1 topic
  17. Solar Dynamics Observatory18▲ 77×1 topic
  18. Holocene18▲ 25×3 topics
  19. Sea Level17▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Paleoclimatology16▲ 30×2 topics
  21. Cosmic Rays16▲ 50×2 topics
  22. Neutrinos16▲ 50×2 topics
  23. Accretion Disks16▲ 49×2 topics
  24. Magnetic Fields16▲ 36×2 topics
  25. Supernovae16▲ 30×2 topics
  26. Solar Influence16▲ 35×2 topics
  27. Glacial Cycles15▲ 36×1 topic
  28. Monsoon Dynamics15▲ 36×1 topic
  29. Black Holes15▲ 24×3 topics
  30. Galactic Center15▲ 51×2 topics
  31. Gravitational Waves14▲ 37×2 topics
  32. Chemical Composition14▲ 22×2 topics
  33. Ozone Depletion14▲ 70×1 topic
  34. Stratospheric Water Vapor14▲ 70×1 topic
  35. Atmospheric Aerosols14▲ 37×1 topic
  36. Black Carbon14▲ 37×1 topic
  37. Cosmology13▲ 29×3 topics
  38. Star Formation12▲ 34×2 topics
  39. Satellite Observations12▲ 19×3 topics
  40. Hydrological Cycle11▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Physical Research Laboratory publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

Astro and Planetary Science: 32 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 32 fractional worksParticle physics theoret…19Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 19 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…19Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 19 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 18 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 15 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Cl…14Atmospheric Ozone and Climate: 14 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 14 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 10 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 10 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsAtmospheric Science

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

  1. 1 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 32 works
  2. 2 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 32 works
  3. 3 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 19 works
  4. 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 19 works
  5. 5 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 18 works
  6. 6 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 15 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 14 works
  8. 8 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 14 works
  9. 9 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 works
  10. 10 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 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 available36.2%not open63.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.3%domestic only81.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Physical Research Laboratory's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower 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 Physical Research Laboratory as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Physical Research Laboratory0.0023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Physical Research Laboratory 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 2025Physical Research Laboratory7.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.3% in 1990.

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