About the 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, 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 countries.

Why in News?

• The Nature Index 2020 has been recently released.

Key findings of Nature Index, 2020 on India:

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

References:

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1630874

https://www.natureindex.com/faq#introduction1

https://dst.gov.in/3-dst-institutes-among-top-30-indian-institutions-nature-index