Research Studies About Mumbai - Key Findings

What research studies Mumbai?

Papers about Mumbai as a subject — its agriculture, health, environment and society — regardless of where the authors sit.

Summary

Researchers treat Mumbai as an urban systems case study. Among 1867 papers about the city, urban and rural development challenges lead with 28, followed by water governance and infrastructure at 17; cinema, conflict, public health, finance and ecology broaden the lens.

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Research outlook for Mumbai

What the papers — written in the city and about it — point to, split by the Prism stance layer: work that reads promising versus work that flags problems or urges caution.

Opportunities the research points to

Machine Learning · 75Sustainability · 53MathML · 49Materials Science · 33Synthesis · 33Climate Change · 32Material Science · 28Nanotechnology · 28Deep Learning · 28Artificial Intelligence · 27Graphene · 25Breast Cancer · 23

Concerns the research raises

COVID-19 · 23Climate Change · 17Children's Health · 17Sustainability · 14Healthcare · 14Education · 12Women's Health · 11Machine Learning · 6Cybersecurity · 6MathML · 5Agriculture · 5Artificial Intelligence · 5

counts = papers carrying the theme · concerns merge cautionary, critical and problem-identifying work

Topics

Topic	Works
Urban and Rural Development Challenges	28
Water Governance and Infrastructure	17
South Asian Cinema and Culture	16
South Asian Studies and Conflicts	15
COVID-19 epidemiological studies	14
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies	13
Microfinance and Financial Inclusion	13
Fish Biology and Ecology Studies	13
Urban Planning and Governance	12
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology	11
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts	11
Social and Economic Development in India	11
Diverse Scientific Research Studies	11
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies	11
COVID-19 and Mental Health	11
Child Nutrition and Water Access	10
Indian Economic and Social Development	9
Urban Transport and Accessibility	9
Anthropological Studies and Insights	8
Water Quality and Pollution Assessment	8

By year

Orientation (where Prism-tagged)

Descriptive

234

Problem Identifying

142

70Promising

26Critical

23Cautionary

21Comparative

12Breakthrough

Most-cited

Paper	Year	Cited	Doi
PRESSURE: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai	2011	700	doi
Analysis of Urban Heat Island (UHI) in Relation to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): A…	2015	280	doi
Ordinary states: Everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai	2011	210	doi
Splintering urbanism in Mumbai: Contrasting trends in a multilayered society	2008	168	doi
The psychological toll of slum living in Mumbai, India: A mixed methods study	2014	155	doi
Concurrent evaluation of visual, cytological and HPV testing as screening methods for the early detection of…	2005	139	—
Epidemiology of dyspepsia in the general population in Mumbai.	2001	139	—
Knowledge, Practices, and Restrictions Related to Menstruation among Young Women from Low Socioeconomic…	2014	130	doi
Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India	2018	122	doi
Organic and inorganic markers and stable C-, N-isotopic compositions of tropical coastal aerosols from…	2013	109	doi
Mumbai slums since independence: Evaluating the policy outcomes	2015	109	doi
Measuring slum severity in Mumbai and Kolkata: A household-based approach	2013	103	doi
Investigations into slum tourism in Mumbai: poverty tourism and the tensions between different constructions…	2010	100	doi
Resistance Patterns among Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Greater Metropolitan Mumbai: Trends…	2015	88	doi
Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied…	2018	83	doi

papers whose title or entities mention Mumbai (any author location) · partial sample · distinct from research done at the city's institutions

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