Nature Index 2022
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What is discussed under Nature Index 2022?
- Key Facts
- Highlights of Index 2022
Why in News ?
The Nature Index 2022 was recently released.
Key Facts
- Nature Index is a database that tracks institutions and countries and their scientific output since its introduction in November, 2014.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay - More than 10,000 institutions are listed in the Nature Index.
- Only articles published in 82 selected high-quality journals are counted.
- Survey for the index was conducted based on research articles published in chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences and earth & environment.
- Rankings were provided on the basis of information secured during April 1, 2021, to march 31, 2022.
- This index is a database of affiliations of author and relationships of institution.
- It records contributions to research articles, published across 82 high-quality natural science journals.
- These journals are selected by an independent group of researchers.
- This database is compiled by Nature Research.
- It provides real-time proxy of high-quality research output.
- It is updated monthly.
Highlights of Nature Index 2022
- In the index, University of Hyderabad has secured first position among Indian Universities while has been placed at 16th position among all institutions in academic sector.
- Hyderabad was ranked first with 72 research papers and a share of 19.46 in academic sector.
- University of Hyderabad is among major higher education institutions in country.
- It was set up in 1974 as a central university through an act of parliament.
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