Nature Index 2020

Nature Index 2020 | UPSC

HEADLINES:

3 DST institutes among top 30 Indian Institutions in Nature Index 2020

WHY IN NEWS:

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata is at 7th position, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore at 14th position and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata at 30th position

MINISTRY? :-Ministry of Science & Technology

SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3:Education : Science and Technology : Reports

LEARNING:

For PRELIMS numbers here are least important . Just remember top spots if you can !

For MAINS you can give examples of such institutions and the name of this report too . Such examples will surely fetch extra marks .

ISSUE:

Globally the top-rated Indian institutions in this list are Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a group of 39 institutions at the 160th position and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore at the 184^th position.

While the research carried out in the academia and research labs has shown good quantitative enhancement, the need for a greater emphasis on quality, relevance, and translational aspects is now being understood as acted upon,” .

TOP 10 INSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD :

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
Max Planck Society, Germany
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China
University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)
Peking University (PKU), China

WHAT IS THE NATURE INDEX?

The Nature Index is a database of author affiliation information collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of 82 high-quality science journals.

The database is compiled by Nature Research.

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 a 12-month rolling window (1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020) of data is openly available at www.natureindex.com under a Creative Commons non-commercial license.
The Nature Index also releases annual tables of country– and institution-level calendar-year output back to 2015.

IASbhai WINDUP:

“It is extremely heartening that the DST’s hot spots of knowledge are consistently rated in the top institutions of the country in the quality of research as judged by the papers published in the selected top-quality journals.

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