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Indian and Buddhist Studies

Indian and Buddhist Studies is a research topic within Religious studies. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 11.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to Buddhist studies, including the history, culture, philosophy, and modernization of Buddhism in South and East Asia. It explores the influence of Buddhism on various aspects of society and its interaction with other religious and cultural traditions. The cluster also delves into the philosophical underpinnings of Buddhist thought and its impact on contemporary issues such as ethics, economics, and globalization.

  • Buddhism
  • South Asia
  • East Asia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Sanskrit
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Modernization
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Indian and Buddhist Studies research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 638 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 638 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 136 works
  4. 4 China 132 works
  5. 5 Germany 111 works
  6. 6 Japan 96 works
  7. 7 France 91 works
  8. 8 Canada 66 works
  9. 9 Russia 61 works
  10. 10 Italy 53 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 44.4%United States: 25.7%United Kingdom: 5.5%China: 5.3%6 others listed: 19.2%44%largest
India1,104 · 44.4%United States638 · 25.7%United Kingdom136 · 5.5%China132 · 5.3%6 others listed478 · 19.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Indian and Buddhist Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Jamia Millia Islamia publishes the most Indian and Buddhist Studies research, followed by Flame University and Elizabethtown College.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Jamia Millia IslamiaIndia 48 works
  2. 2 Flame UniversityIndia 48 works
  3. 3 Elizabethtown CollegeUnited States 48 works
  4. 4 Graduate Theological UnionUnited States 45 works
  5. 5 Universität HamburgGermany 41 works
  6. 6 University of DelhiIndia 36 works
  7. 7 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 30 works
  8. 8 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 28 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 23 works
  10. 10 University of ChicagoUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Indian and Buddhist Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indian and Buddhist Studies include S. Chattopadhyay.

  1. 1 S. Chattopadhyay India 2.3k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Indian and Buddhist Studies research done?

The largest centres of Indian and Buddhist Studies research in 2022–2025 are New Delhi (India), Pune (India), Paris (France) and Bengaluru (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Elizabethtown.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New Delhi India 140 works
  2. 2 Pune India 65 works
  3. 3 Paris France 62 works
  4. 4 Bengaluru India 59 works
  5. 5 Kolkata India 56 works
  6. 6 Berkeley United States 55 works
  7. 7 Elizabethtown United States 48 works
  8. 8 Hamburg Germany 42 works
  9. 9 New York United States 40 works
  10. 10 Tokyo Japan 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ElizabethtownUS · 47.6 works1064×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Indian and Buddhist Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Indian and Buddhist Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Allahabad, University of Delhi and Elizabethtown College score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.43%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Allahabad: 9, 38.4%University of Delhi: 36, 15.2%Elizabethtown College: 48, 1.8%Universität Hamburg: 41, 7.8%Tribhuvan University: 30, 3.9%Utkal University: 12, 28.2%Jawaharlal Nehru University: 18, 13.7%Flame University: 48, 1.0%University of Vienna: 14, 17.2%National Institute of Ayurveda: 13, 27.1%University of Allaha…University of DelhiUniversität HamburgElizabethtown College
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of AllahabadIndia 71.738.4%28.8×9 +184.6%
2 University of DelhiIndia 70.115.2%24.0×36 +1397.3%
3 Elizabethtown CollegeUnited States 68.81.8%1064.9×48 +3562.5%
4 Universität HamburgGermany 63.67.8%24.4×41 +126.0%
5 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 59.43.9%22.9×30 +350.0%
6 Utkal UniversityIndia 58.928.2%101.4×12 —
7 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 58.013.7%31.1×18 +150.0%
8 Flame UniversityIndia 57.51.0%616.4×48 —
9 University of ViennaAustria 56.617.2%9.2×14 +113.6%
10 National Institute of AyurvedaIndia 56.527.1%77.2×13 +33.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Indian and Buddhist Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Indian and Buddhist Studies.

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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.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.