CSIR at 9th position in world science institution list

New Delhi, Aug 31: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has bagged the ninth rank in the global list of scientific government institutions, according to the World Report of a renowned ranking firm. According to a statement issued here today, the Chinese Academy of Sciences topped the list of 1207 Government institutions, followed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, Germany; Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Japan Science & Technology Agency, Japan; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy and Leibniz Gemeinschaft, Germany, it added. In overall global ranking, CSIR, having pan-India presence, stands at 75th position among the 5250 institutions worldwide. It is the only Indian organisation to have secured a place in the Top 100 Global Institutions, the statement added. It said the Scimago Institutions Ranking (SIR) is a science evaluation resource developed by Scimago Labs based on data from Scopus, to assess worldwide Institutions. The ranking is based on a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility, so as to reflect scientific, economic and social characteristics of institutions, it added. UNI