JNCASR only Indian institute in Nature’s ‘Top 10’

Bengaluru: The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has turn into the only Indian institute to make it to the 2019 Nature Index Annual Tables, introduced out by way of Nature. It has been ranked 7th a number of the best ten international listing of educational establishments in 2019.

This is a new rating of the top ten clinical establishments produced by way of the celebrated clinical writer—Nature—which up to now were ruled by way of huge universities with massive budgets and manpower assets.


Nature has now ‘normalised’ the ratings, because of this that it took into consideration the standard of labor going down at institutes and not essentially their dimension and manpower.

“It is fantastic. As an fulfillment that is something out of the strange for the clinical group in India,” Prof Ashutosh Sharma, secretary, Department of Science & Technology, instructed TOI.

"I’ve always believed and said that our scientists can do globally competitive research by their intellect, commitment,dedication and passion. Here we see an excellent example of that, which should be an inspiration to all our scientists and scientific institutions," instructed TOI.

Harsh Vardhan, Union Science & Technology Minister

In a social media put up, he mentioned that in analysis ratings, some things depend at the dimension (or weight) of the establishments, and others at the quality of study. It’s pleasant that JNCASR is situated on the 7th spot.It's nice to peer the institute within the league of establishments similar to Princeton, Weizmann Institute of Advanced Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

“...Established simply 30 years ago, JNCASR is significantly younger and smaller than most of the establishments within the Nature Index Annual Tables. But this point of difference, along side its location within the ‘Silicon Valley of India’, has turn into its strength, facilitating the types of collaborations that come from shut quarters and a recent technique to interdisciplinary analysis,” Nature noted.


Prof CNR Rao, honorary president and Linus Pauling Research Professor at JNCASR mentioned that the institute was once in “superb company”, which is an incredible encouragement to do even better.


Prof KS Narayan, President-in-charge of JNCASR, mentioned: “This reputation is a reflection of the sustained thrilling analysis activities at JNCASR over the previous few many years.”


Of the rest nine establishments, 5 are from the USA, and one each from Austria, Israel, Japan and Switzerland. The best rank was once given to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, US and the last rank (10) went to Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan).


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