A study of trends in groundwater research in South and Southeast Asian countries in the past five decades has found that Anna University with 207 articles ranks second.
The National Geophysical Research Institute with 245 articles has been ranked first. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, with 174 articles, comes third.
The study by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, on “Trends in groundwater research development in the South and Southeast Asian Countries: a 50-year bibliometric analysis (1970–2020)“ found that it is only recently that developing countries had been writing about groundwater and the various issues pertaining to its overuse, recharge and contamination.
