Nature Index 2020
Nature Index table 2020 has released, India is placed twelth globally in science research output. The top five positions have gone to the United States of America, China, Germany, United Kingdom and Japan. The Nature Index Annual Tables 2020 is based on the research published in the 82 scientific journals covered by the Nature Indexand selected by a panel of 58 researchers in the natural sciences.
What is the Nature Index?
- The database is compiled by Nature Research, a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals. Nature Research’s flagship publication is Nature, a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869.
- The Nature Index provides a close to real-time proxy of high-quality research output and collaboration at the institutional, national and regional level.
- The Nature Index is updated monthly and also releases annual tables of country.
Key findings :
- Three of the autonomous institutions of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India have found their place among top 30 Indian Institutions including universities, IITs, IISERs, and Research Institutions and Labs as per Nature Index 2020 ratings.
- NCASR Banglore ranks 4thamong academic institutions in life sciences, 10th in Chemistry and Physical Sciences, 10th among Indian academic institutions, and 469th in the global ranking.
| India Ranks | Global Ranks | Institutions |
| 1 | 160 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) |
| 2 | 184 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore |
| 3 | 260 | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) |
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