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Researcher · Centre for Science and Environment · India

Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Water resources management and optimization, Climate Change and Geoengineering and Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,391,843
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#21,494
of 280,097
Works
53
Citations
14k
Citations per work
255.0
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 12% in Sociology and Political Science
Sunita Narain

What does Sunita Narain research?

Sunita Narain's work is mostly in Social Sciences (25%), Environmental Science (21%), Engineering (6%).

Everything else: 23 works · 43.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 29.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 25.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 16.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 8.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 4.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 4.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 26.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 20.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 works · 13.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 works · 7.5% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 5.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKSunita Narain53works
Physical Sciences26%Social Sciences30%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else2343.9%
    1. Social Sciences1325.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance24.7%
    1. Environmental Science1120.6%
    2. Engineering35.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change13% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sunita Narain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Sustainability, Water Resources, Environmental Sustainability, Ethics, Geoengineering, Hydrosocial Cycle and Reservoir Operation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change255 topics
  2. Sustainability102 topics
  3. Water Resources102 topics
  4. Environmental Sustainability61 topic
  5. Ethics61 topic
  6. Geoengineering61 topic
  7. Hydrosocial Cycle61 topic
  8. Reservoir Operation61 topic
  9. Sustainability Indicators61 topic
  10. Water Demand61 topic
  11. Water Privatization61 topic
  12. Environmental Services51 topic
  13. Tropical Deforestation51 topic
  14. Conflict41 topic
  15. Decentralization41 topic
  16. EROI41 topic
  17. Fossil Fuels41 topic
  18. Kerala41 topic
  19. Transboundary Water41 topic

Where does Sunita Narain work?

Sunita Narain's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre for Science and Environment, India.

How many publications and citations does Sunita Narain have?

OpenAlex counts 53 works and 13,517 citations for Sunita Narain, an h-index of 15, ranking #1,391,843 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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