Nature Index

The Nature Research, a division of the popular Springer Nature recently released Nature Index. India secured 12^th rank in the index.

Highlights

The countries that secured top 5 places in the index includes USA, China, Germany, UK and Japan. The top Indian Institutes that were rated high by the index include CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) and IISc Bangalore. Also, three institutions found their places among top 30 Indian Institutions according to Nature Index 2020 ratings. They are

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

About Nature Index

The Nature Index is created based on the author affiliation database collected from research articles that are published in around 82 high-quality science journals. These indices are of high importance for the current scenario of COVID-19. This is because, they help to track the researches.

The Nature Index is updated monthly and also releases annual tables of country.