The ranking measures areas such as:

Research: Output, international collaboration, normalized impact (leadership output), high quality publications, excellence, scientific leadership, excellence with leadership and scientific talent pool

Innovation: Innovative knowledge and technological impact

Societal impact: Web size and domain's inbound links

The constituent institute of CSIR, the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) has been ranked first among Indian government research institutions, improving its global overall ranking from 425 to 353. The CSIR-NIIST became the first among 59 ranked government institutions in the country, followed by CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad.
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