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Students and Staff

Personnel

(as of March 31, 2024)
Personnel Number
Faculty (Assistant, Associate & Full Professors) 138
Visiting, Emeritus, Guest, and Adjunct Faculty 23
Fellows and Project Scientists 8
Non-Teaching Staff 135
Postdoctoral Research Associates 44
Students (PhD, Int. PhD, MSc, BS-MS) 1866
(506 + 166 + 45 + 1149)

Student Numbers across Academic Programmes Offered

(as of March 31, 2024)
Programme   Number
PhD (Men - 298) (Women - 208) 506
Integrated PhD (Men - 106) (Women - 60) 166
MSc (Men -27) (Women - 18) 45
BS-MS Dual Degree (Men - 814) (Women - 335) 1149

Student Numbers across Departments

(as of March 31, 2024)
Department PhD Integrated PhD MSc
Biology 153 67 -
Chemistry 187 37 24
Data Science 3 - -
Earth and Climate Science 31 - 11
Humanities and Social Sciences 18 - -
Mathematics 33 13 10
Physics 81 49 -

Publications

Total Number of Research Publications from IISER Pune (2006-2023): 4,994

On the 2024 Nature Index Tables, IISER Pune is listed 13th in India, 167th at the Asia-Pacific level, and 439th globally.

The Nature Index is a database compiled by Nature Research and provides a measure of high-quality research output and collaboration. This is based on author affiliation information collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of 145 high-quality science journals.

 

Year-wise Number of Research Publications

 

 

The numbers have been sourced from the Web of Science and from faculty members. Visit our Library's Digital Repository for further details on our Publications.

Patents

As of December 31, 2023, IISER Pune has filed 85 patent applications, and had 65 published patents, and 37 granted patents. PCT applications and abandoned applications are not included in this count.

During the 2023 calendar year, IISER Pune filed 13 patent applications and had 12 patents published and 21 patents granted. In addition, 5 applications were filed, and 2 published for PCT approval during the 2023 calendar year.

Visit our Library's Digital Repository for further details on our Patents.