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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

In research, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,841 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#3,267 of 5,901 worldwide) and Mechanical Engineering (#865 of 1,319 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering (Astronomy and Astrophysics is 16.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,588
of 22,385 · #10,044 all time
Rank in India
#843
of 1,562
Research works
3.6k
▲ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
55k
15.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.73×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

What is Vikram Sarabhai Space 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 #5,841 of 10,670 3.4%636 #3436
EngineeringField #3,267 of 5,901 3.3%353 #2461
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #865 of 1,319 5.8%85 #1096
Materials ScienceField #1,735 of 2,276 4.2%63 #1444
Physics and AstronomyField #1,137 of 1,417 6.0%64 #2291
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #714 of 785 2.3%99 #807

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Vikram Sarabhai Space 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 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#3,436 #5,841
  2. Engineering#2,461 #3,267
  3. Mechanical Engineering#1,096 #865
  4. Materials Science#1,444 #1,735
  5. Physics and Astronomy#2,291 #1,137
  6. Aerospace Engineering#807 #714
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 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre work in?

In 2022-now, 96% of research at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (53%), Materials Science (10%), Physics and Astronomy (9%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 691 fractional works · 96.4% of its workEngineering: 380 fractional works · 53.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 110 fractional works · 15.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 89 fractional works · 12.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 45 fractional works · 6.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 29 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 28 fractional works · 3.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 22 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 12 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 70 fractional works · 9.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 36 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCeramics and Composites: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMetals and Alloys: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 67 fractional works · 9.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 60 fractional works · 8.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 63 fractional works · 8.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 51 fractional works · 7.1% of its workGeophysics: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 43 fractional works · 6.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 28 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 37 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 12 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVikram SarabhaiSpace Centre717fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences96%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences1%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering38053.1%
    2. Materials Science709.8%
    3. Physics and Astronomy679.3%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences638.8%
    5. Environmental Science436.1%
    6. Computer Science375.2%
    7. Mathematics141.9%
    8. Chemistry91.3%
    9. Energy40.6%
    10. Chemical Engineering30.4%
    1. Medicine91.2%
    2. Health Professions10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology50.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.2%
    3. Neuroscience10.2%
    1. Decision Sciences20.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.3%
    3. Social Sciences10.2%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
    6. Psychology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 16.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 60.2 works16×
  2. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 50.8 works16×
  3. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 109.8 works13×
  4. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 89.3 works6.8×
  5. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 27.9 works6.7×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.01× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.82× its world share, 9 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.67× its world share, 37 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.64× its world share, 63 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.66× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.54× its world share, 380 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.22× its world share, 43 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.80× its world share, 70 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.63× its world share, 14 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 4.19× its world share, 67 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 9 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.64×63 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy4.19×67 works
  3. Engineering3.54×380 works
  4. Materials Science2.80×70 works
  5. Mathematics1.63×14 works
  6. Environmental Science1.22×43 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.01×2 works
  8. Chemistry0.82×9 works
  9. Computer Science0.67×37 works
  10. Energy0.66×4 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.36×2 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×6 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×2 works
  14. Neuroscience0.12×1 works
  15. Medicine0.06×9 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×2 works
  17. Health Professions0.03×1 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.03×1 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×1 works
  20. Psychology0.02×0 works
  21. Social Sciences0.02×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, S. Suresh Babu, Vijayakumar Sivadasan Nair and Patteth S. Salini lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.

  1. 1 S. Suresh Babu India · #976,325 worldwide 10k citations · 269 works
  2. 2 Vijayakumar Sivadasan Nair India · #994,158 worldwide 5.1k citations · 104 works
  3. 3 Patteth S. Salini India · #1,265,156 worldwide 852 citations · 65 works
  4. 4 K. Krishna Moorthy India · #1,560,278 worldwide 13k citations · 398 works
  5. 5 Sobhan Kumar Kompalli India · #1,842,487 worldwide 1.6k citations · 60 works
  6. 6 Mukunda Madhab Gogoi India · #2,097,470 worldwide 2.7k citations · 127 works
  7. 7 Anoop Kumar Shukla India · #2,104,141 worldwide 1.8k citations · 55 works
  8. 8 M. B. Dhanya India · #2,204,845 worldwide 1.1k citations · 68 works
  9. 9 S. Naseema Beegum India · #2,228,117 worldwide 1.1k citations · 26 works
  10. 10 K. N. Shukla India · #2,295,036 worldwide 1.1k citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

What are the most cited papers from Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre?

The most cited paper from Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is "Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia" (Zhanqing Li et al., 2016), with 927 citations. Next come "Two-Dimensional Titanium Nitride (Ti 2 N) MXene: Synthesis, Characterization, and Potential Application as Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate" (757) and "Advances in addition-cure phenolic resins" (688).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia Zhanqing Li et al. · Reviews of Geophysics Open access 10 Sep 2016 927
2 Two-Dimensional Titanium Nitride (Ti 2 N) MXene: Synthesis, Characterization, and Potential Application as Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate Bhuvaneswari Soundiraraju, Benny Kattikkanal George · ACS Nano 28 Aug 2017 757
3 Advances in addition-cure phenolic resins C.G.R. Nair · Progress in Polymer Science 3 Apr 2004 688
4 Radiative effects of natural aerosols: A review S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy · Atmospheric Environment 25 Feb 2005 585
5 Mechanical properties of pineapple leaf fiber-reinforced polyester composites L. Uma Devi, S. S. Bhagawan, Sabu Thomas · Journal of Applied Polymer Science 31 May 1997 411
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, Air Quality, Solar Wind, Hydrological Cycle, Combustion Instabilities, Hybrid Rocket Propulsion and Regression Rate Behavior.

▲ 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. Mechanical Properties68▲ 9.6×27 topics
  2. Microstructure44▲ 12×13 topics
  3. Air Quality32▲ 24×6 topics
  4. Solar Wind31▲ 48×2 topics
  5. Hydrological Cycle24▲ 32×2 topics
  6. Remote Sensing21▲ 2.4×19 topics
  7. Combustion Instabilities20▲ 46×2 topics
  8. Heat Transfer20▲ 5.7×12 topics
  9. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion19▲ 122×1 topic
  10. Regression Rate Behavior19▲ 122×1 topic
  11. Additive Manufacturing18▲ 8.4×7 topics
  12. Grain Refinement18▲ 22×4 topics
  13. Satellite Observations18▲ 25×3 topics
  14. Thermal Analysis18▲ 20×5 topics
  15. Ionosphere18▲ 45×1 topic
  16. Magnetosphere18▲ 45×1 topic
  17. Microstructural Evolution16▲ 15×4 topics
  18. Lithium-ion Batteries16▲ 5.3×4 topics
  19. Ozone Depletion16▲ 72×1 topic
  20. Stratospheric Water Vapor16▲ 72×1 topic
  21. CubeSat15▲ 116×1 topic
  22. small satellite15▲ 116×1 topic
  23. Climate15▲ 22×2 topics
  24. Atmospheric Aerosols15▲ 36×1 topic
  25. Black Carbon15▲ 36×1 topic
  26. Ice Nucleation14▲ 49×2 topics
  27. Sintering14▲ 16×5 topics
  28. Numerical Simulation14▲ 6.8×7 topics
  29. Aerosols14▲ 28×1 topic
  30. Atmospheric Dust14▲ 73×1 topic
  31. Coronal Mass Ejections14▲ 52×1 topic
  32. Solar Dynamics Observatory14▲ 52×1 topic
  33. Numerical Methods13▲ 23×3 topics
  34. Boundary Layer13▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Composite Materials13▲ 8.6×8 topics
  36. Polymer Composites13▲ 6.7×6 topics
  37. Data Assimilation13▲ 11×3 topics
  38. Corrosion Behavior12▲ 21×2 topics
  39. Radial Basis Functions12▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Boltzmann Equation12▲ 78×1 topic

Which research topics does Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Rocket and propulsion systems research, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate and Spacecraft Design and Technology.

Rocket and propulsion sy…19Rocket and propulsion systems research: 19 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…18Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 18 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 16 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Te…15Spacecraft Design and Technology: 15 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry an…15Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 15 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 14 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 14 fractional worksGas Dynamics and Kinetic…12Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory: 12 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 11 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 11 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringAstronomy and AstrophysicsAtmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary Change2 others

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

  1. 1 Rocket and propulsion systems research Aerospace Engineering 19 works
  2. 2 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 18 works
  3. 3 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 16 works
  4. 4 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 15 works
  5. 5 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 15 works
  6. 6 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 14 works
  7. 7 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 14 works
  8. 8 Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory Applied Mathematics 12 works
  9. 9 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 11 works
  10. 10 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 11 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 available18.5%not open81.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.5%domestic only94.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% 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 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre0.0029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vikram Sarabhai Space 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre4.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.5% in 2007.

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