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Wildlife Institute of India

In research, Wildlife Institute of India stands highest in Environmental Science (#1,391 of 3,551 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#2,382 of 3,409 worldwide) and Ecology (#428 of 578 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation — Ecological Modeling is 90.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#13,178
of 28,054 · #20,138 all time
Rank in India
#909
of 1,840
Research works
1.3k
▲ 100% vs 2013–17
Citations
22k
16.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is Wildlife Institute of India 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
Environmental ScienceField #1,391 of 3,551 16.3%236 #2394
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,382 of 3,409 10.9%87 #4338
EcologySubfield #428 of 578 12.9%115 #958
Physical SciencesDomain #9,606 of 12,888 15.7%258 #17734
Life SciencesDomain #6,027 of 7,800 9.4%151 #8263

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Wildlife Institute of 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 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. Environmental Science#2,394 #1,391
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#4,338 #2,382
  3. Ecology#958 #428
  4. Physical Sciences#17,734 #9,606
  5. Life Sciences#8,263 #6,027
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 Wildlife Institute of India specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecological Modeling takes 90.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecological ModelingSubfield · 31.3 works90×
  2. EcologySubfield · 115.1 works32×
  3. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 31.8 works29×
  4. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 35.9 works17×
  5. Environmental ScienceField · 236.2 works10×
← 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: 4.01× its world share, 87 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.41× its world share, 59 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.89× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.80× its world share, 13 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 10.40× its world share, 236 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 7.11× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.74× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 10.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Wildlife Institute of India?

Ranked on the composite score, Syed Ainul Hussain, Sambandam Sathyakumar and Vinod B. Mathur lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wildlife Institute of India.

  1. 1 Syed Ainul Hussain India · #112,244 worldwide 347 citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Sambandam Sathyakumar India · #402,543 worldwide 28 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Vinod B. Mathur India · #427,580 worldwide 46 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Surendra Prakash Goyal India · #607,299 worldwide 81 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Ruchi Badola India · #776,070 worldwide 114 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Yadvendradev V. Jhala India · #856,743 worldwide 63 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 K. Sivakumar India · #990,678 worldwide 48 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Gautam Talukdar India · #1,016,292 worldwide 55 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Amit Kumar India · #1,021,230 worldwide 30 citations · 30 works
  10. 10 A. J. T. Johnsingh India · #1,032,413 worldwide 55 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Wildlife Institute of India

Which keywords describe research at Wildlife Institute of India?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Population Dynamics, Biodiversity, Habitat Selection, Conservation, Trophic Cascades, Animal Movement and Occupancy Rates.

▲ 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. Climate Change138▲ 11×54 topics
  2. Population Dynamics98▲ 85×8 topics
  3. Biodiversity94▲ 28×22 topics
  4. Habitat Selection65▲ 191×2 topics
  5. Conservation58▲ 30×16 topics
  6. Trophic Cascades57▲ 133×2 topics
  7. Animal Movement56▲ 232×1 topic
  8. Occupancy Rates56▲ 232×1 topic
  9. Invasive Species52▲ 27×18 topics
  10. Conservation Biology50▲ 107×3 topics
  11. Habitat Fragmentation44▲ 43×4 topics
  12. Model Evaluation35▲ 61×2 topics
  13. Genetic Diversity34▲ 17×14 topics
  14. Citizen Science31▲ 70×2 topics
  15. Ecological Niche31▲ 118×1 topic
  16. Species Distribution Modeling31▲ 118×1 topic
  17. Phylogenetic Analysis28▲ 20×11 topics
  18. Biogeography28▲ 23×17 topics
  19. Evolution26▲ 23×13 topics
  20. Global Change25▲ 21×4 topics
  21. Molecular Phylogeny24▲ 34×10 topics
  22. Genetic Structure20▲ 60×4 topics
  23. Ecosystem19▲ 39×3 topics
  24. DNA Barcoding19▲ 26×9 topics
  25. Ecosystem Services18▲ 10×7 topics
  26. Population Genetics17▲ 27×3 topics
  27. Phylogeny17▲ 24×13 topics
  28. Species Richness16▲ 54×2 topics
  29. Species Delimitation16▲ 78×3 topics
  30. Adaptation15▲ 12×8 topics
  31. Bats15▲ 99×2 topics
  32. Biodiversity Loss15▲ 64×3 topics
  33. Community Ecology15▲ 38×2 topics
  34. Land Use Change15▲ 10×6 topics
  35. Metabolic Rate14▲ 48×2 topics
  36. Graph Theory14▲ 28×2 topics
  37. Habitat Connectivity14▲ 180×1 topic
  38. Phylogeography14▲ 88×2 topics
  39. Road Ecology14▲ 180×1 topic
  40. Adaptive Evolution14▲ 54×2 topics

Which research topics does Wildlife Institute of India publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Wildlife Ecology and Con…56Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 56 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…31Species Distribution and Climate Change: 31 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactio…14Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 14 fractional worksBat Biology and Ecology Studies: 13 fractional worksAmphibian and Reptile Biology: 13 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 13 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 11 fractional worksFish Biology and Ecology Studies: 10 fractional worksRangeland Management and Livestock Ecology: 10 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 9 fractional works
EcologyEcological ModelingEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsGlobal and Planetary Change4 others

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

  1. 1 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 56 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 31 works
  3. 3 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 14 works
  4. 4 Bat Biology and Ecology Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 13 works
  5. 5 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 13 works
  6. 6 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 13 works
  7. 7 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 11 works
  8. 8 Fish Biology and Ecology Studies Aquatic Science 10 works
  9. 9 Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 10 works
  10. 10 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 9 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 available60.5%not open39.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.9%domestic only84.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Wildlife Institute of India's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 100% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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