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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay


Institution type - Education
Year of Establishment - 1958

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) is a public technical and research university located in Powai in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. IIT Bombay was founded in 1958. In 1961, the Parliament decreed IITs as Institutes of National Importance. A committee formed by the Government of India recommended the establishment of four higher institutes of technology to set the direction for the development of technical education in the country in 1946. Planning began in 1957 and the first batch of 100 students was admitted in 1958. Since its establishment in Powai, the institute has physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 2.2 square kilometers. IIT Bombay is known for its 4 Year, 5 Year & 2 Year programmes for which the entry is through the Joint Entrance Examination - Advanced and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. It offers degrees such as: Bachelor of Technology, Four Year Bachelor of Science, Five Year Master of Science, 2 or 3 Year Master of Technology, and a few others. It also has a comprehensive graduate program offering doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It currently has a total of 15 academic departments, 20 centres, a school of excellence and four interdisciplinary programs including a Management Program.
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Key Indicators (2010-2019)

Total Research Papers 17384
Total Citations 235472
Citations per paper 13.55
h-index 137
g-index 222
ICP proportion 26.02%
Male / Female 1st author
  • Male:  78.20%
  • Female:  21.80%
Open Access availability 20.65%
Altmetric Attention
  • Twitter Coverage:  15.27 %
  • Facebook Coverage:  2.23 %
  • Mendeley Coverage:  25.13 %

Research Output and Citations






Authorship and Collaboration



Research Grants (Domestic)


Major Indian Funding Agencies Thousand $

Gender Distribution


Open Access Availability


Social Media Visibility

Platform-wise values for 2010-2019 period

  • Twitter coverage : 15.27 %
  • Facebook coverage : 2.23 %
  • Mendeley coverage : 25.13 %
  • Twitter average mentions per paper : 5.54
  • Facebook average mentions per paper : 1.57
  • Mendeley average mentions per paper : 436.72

Research Output related to SDGs


Research Portfolio

x-index :  211
x(g)-index :  321

The computation of x -index and x(g) -index is as per the idea proposed in Lathabai, Nandy & Singh (2021).


External Data (Year - 2021)

ARWU rank : NA
THE rank : NA
QS rank : 172
Leiden rank : 4
NIRF rank (Overall): NA

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