---
title: "Indian Statistical Institute: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Indian Statistical Institute: 504 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 255."
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share_text: "Research profile of Indian Statistical Institute: 504 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 255. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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# Indian Statistical Institute

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: India
- web domain: isical.ac.in

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions.md

## Key findings

- Indian Statistical Institute was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #665 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Statistics and Computing (1), Statistical Papers (1) and Journal of Mathematical Economics (1).
- Countries: India (3) and Germany (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Indian Statistical Institute ranks #10 in statistics.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Indian Statistical Institute took part in 504 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (171), economics (155) and statistics (118).
- 54 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre (16), Jadavpur University (9) and Ashoka University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Mathematical Economics (11), Annals of Operations Research (10) and Statistics & Probability Letters (9).
- The most-cited of them is “An exhaustive review of the metaheuristic algorithms for search and optimization: taxonomy, applications, and open challenges” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023), with 702 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Indian Statistical Institute has 21,122 works with 619,584 citations (h-index 255).
- The tracked journals hold 471 of its 7,885 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (6.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Probability and Statistical Research (1,202), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (874) and Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (787).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#10 in statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/statistics.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 12 | 18 | 24 | 18 | 19 | 23 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 8 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 18 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 25 | 16 | 9 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 12 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 44 | 51 | 45 | 56 | 64 | 53 | 50 | 54 | 54 | 33 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Mathematical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-mathematical-economics.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre | 16 |
| 2 | Jadavpur University | 9 |
| 3 | Ashoka University | 7 |
| 4 | [China University of Petroleum, East China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/china-university-of-petroleum-east-china.md) | 7 |
| 5 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | 7 |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | 6 |
| 7 | University of Salford | 5 |
| 8 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | 4 |
| 9 | TCG Crest | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | India | 191 |
| 2 | United States | 32 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 4 | China | 15 |
| 5 | Australia | 9 |
| 6 | Germany | 8 |
| 7 | Canada | 5 |
| 8 | Spain | 5 |
| 9 | Italy | 5 |
| 10 | Japan | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [India](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/india.md) | 10 |
| 2 | mechanism design | 8 |
| 3 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 7 |
| 4 | multiple comparisons | 7 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 6 |
| 6 | Pareto optimality | 5 |
| 7 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [outliers](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/outliers.md) | 5 |
| 9 | allocation rules | 4 |
| 10 | axiomatization | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 702 | 16.4 | [An exhaustive review of the metaheuristic algorithms for search and optimization: taxonomy, applications, and open challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10470-y) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2023-04-09 | Kanchan Rajwar, Kusum Deep, Swagatam Das |
| 2 | 301 | 4.5 | [Deep learning in multi-object detection and tracking: state of the art](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-02293-7) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 2021-04-09 | Sankar Kumar Pal, Anima Pramanik, Jhareswar Maiti et al. |
| 3 | 296 | 4.1 | [Performance assessment of the metaheuristic optimization algorithms: an exhaustive review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09906-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-10-06 | Abdul Halim, Idris B. Ismail, Swagatam Das |
| 4 | 292 | 6.4 | [An outliers detection and elimination framework in classification task of data mining](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100164) | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 2023-01-18 | Ch. Sanjeev Kumar Dash, Ajit Kumar Behera, Satchidananda Dehuri et al. |
| 5 | 216 | 2.1 | [Handling data irregularities in classification: Foundations, trends, and future challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.03.008) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-03-18 | Swagatam Das, Shounak Datta, B.B. Chaudhuri |
| 6 | 213 | 2.3 | [Feature Selection for Neural Networks Using Group Lasso Regularization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2019.2893266) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2019-01-16 | Huaqing Zhang, Jian Wang, Zhanquan Sun et al. |
| 7 | 204 | 2.8 | [Deep neural network to detect COVID-19: one architecture for both CT Scans and Chest X-rays](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-020-01943-6) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 2020-11-06 | Himadri Mukherjee, Subhankar Ghosh, Ankita Dhar et al. |
| 8 | 200 | 2.3 | [A survey of swarm and evolutionary computing approaches for deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09719-2) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2019-06-13 | Ashraf Darwish, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Swagatam Das |
| 9 | 193 | 1.8 | [Why are fewer married women joining the work force in rural India? A decomposition analysis over two decades](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0671-y) | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 2017-09-30 | Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman, Kanika Mahajan |
| 10 | 148 | 1.5 | [Script identification in natural scene image and video frames using an attention based Convolutional-LSTM network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.07.034) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-08-02 | Ankan Kumar Bhunia, Aishik Konwer, Ayan Kumar Bhunia et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Indian Statistical Institute in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Also known as | ISI, भारतीय सांख्यिकीय संस्थान |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 21,122 |
| Citations | 619,584 |
| h-index | 255 |
| i10-index | 11,697 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 2.26 |
| Website | [www.isical.ac.in](https://www.isical.ac.in/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00q2w1j53](https://ror.org/00q2w1j53) |
| Wikidata | [Q3105568](Q3105568) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I6498739](https://openalex.org/I6498739) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 877 | 17,461 | 33 | 3.8% |
| 2025 | 985 | 25,931 | 54 | 5.5% |
| 2024 | 924 | 26,374 | 54 | 5.8% |
| 2023 | 902 | 26,700 | 50 | 5.5% |
| 2022 | 835 | 26,221 | 53 | 6.3% |
| 2021 | 940 | 27,392 | 64 | 6.8% |
| 2020 | 901 | 23,859 | 56 | 6.2% |
| 2019 | 794 | 20,319 | 45 | 5.7% |
| 2018 | 793 | 18,364 | 51 | 6.4% |
| 2017 | 811 | 16,645 | 44 | 5.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Probability and Statistical Research | Mathematics | 1,202 |
| 2 | Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications | Mathematics | 874 |
| 3 | Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques | Computer Science | 787 |
| 4 | Coding theory and cryptography | Computer Science | 784 |
| 5 | Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs | Computer Science | 686 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | [Reliability Acceptance Sampling Plans Under Progressive Type-I Interval Censoring Schemes in Presence of Dependent Competing Risks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-10999-2) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Rathin Das, Soumya Roy, Biswabrata Pradhan | Indian Statistical Institute; Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode |
| 2026-10-16 | [Asymptotic Bayes optimality for sparse count data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-026-01911-1) | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | Sayantan Paul, Arijit Chakrabarti | Dhirubhai Ambani University; Indian Statistical Institute |
| 2026-10-07 | [Local incentive compatibility in ordinally restricted type-spaces](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2026.103317) | [Journal of Mathematical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-mathematical-economics.md) | Ujjwal Kumar, Souvik Roy | University of Bonn; Hausdorff Center for Mathematics; Indian Statistical Institute |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Indian Statistical Institute. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/indian-statistical-institute

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