Nature Index labels SRM as top private university

Kattankulathur: SRM Institution of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur has been ranked number one private university in India and number 21 among Indian universities by the Nature Index 2020. The ranking was done based on Nature Index data from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

Among the four broad subject areas, SRMIST ranked 19 for Chemistry in India and 28 for Physical Sciences. SRMIST has been ranked 5th in India among Nature and Science journal group.

Some of the top articles by altmetric score in current window are: 'The Genome Asia 100k Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia' which was published in Nature (December 2019) and 'A bacteriophage nucleus-like compartment shields DNA from CRISPR nucleases' published in Nature (December 2019). Apart from this SRMIST's overall publications has reached 22,000 as on date (put together in all indexing databases). The university's h-index has increased to 83 (Scopus based).

The Nature Index tracks contributions to research articles published in 82 high-quality natural science journals, chosen by an independent group of researchers.