Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Abbreviation: IDSA

Location: New Delhi, India

Founded: 1965

TTA Score: 6.00 points (see how this score was calculated)

Rank: # 68 out of 82 (see full ranking)

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Publications & Citations Timeline

Citations before 2022 are not counted.

Note also that not all outputs are collected (e.g., our database generally focuses on English-language reports that are not in a PDF format), and that data collection may be subject to unintended errors and omissions.

Recent Think Tank Publications

Oct 9, 2025 Left-Wing Extremism in Maharashtra: Counterinsurgency Strategies and Current Challenges

Oct 8, 2025 Contextualising Trump’s Bagram Pivot

Oct 8, 2025 Technology, Terror and National Security Challenges

Oct 8, 2025 Rising Anti-Government Protests in Southeast Asia

Oct 7, 2025 Securing Critical Undersea Infrastructure

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

Oct 19, 2024 The fallacy of Chinese ‘strategy’ of five fingers of Tibet India Review

Jul 31, 2024 India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era <b>India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era</b> , edited by Sujan Chinoy and Prasanta Kumar Pradhan, New Delhi, Pentagon Press LLP, 2024, 183 pp., ₹ 1295 (HB), ISBN: 978-81-968722-2-9 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Jun 25, 2024 Remarks Routledge eBooks

Jun 20, 2024 Theory and Practice of Geoeconomics in South Asia Oxford University Press eBooks

May 3, 2024 Engaging North Korea in the Space Domain Astropolitics

Top Research Topics

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East 204 publications

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International Relations and Foreign Policy 157 publications

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South Asian Studies and Conflicts 139 publications

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Global Peace and Security Dynamics 101 publications

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Nuclear Issues and Defense 87 publications

These data refer only to publications in peer-reviewed journals; the data source is OpenAlex.

Core Activities

Articles (since 2020): 1,206

Authors (since 2020): 198

Citations (since 2022): 19

Academic Metrics

Scholarly Works: 120

Impact Factor (2 years): 0

H-Index: 24

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Saman Ayesha Kidwai

Arnab Dasgupta

Adil Rasheed

Jason Wahlang

Abhay Kumar Singh

Only articles since 2020 are considered.

ORF

809

CSIS

757

Brookings

556

Atlantic Council

533

CEIP

520

Only citations since 2022 are considered. The range of think tanks taken into account is larger than the ones indexed in this platform (see methodical details).

ORF

173

CEIP

CSIS