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India’s Rank and Global Share in Scientific Research: how Publication Counting Method and Subject Selection can Vary the Outcomes?

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Title India’s Rank and Global Share in Scientific Research: how Publication Counting Method and Subject Selection can Vary the Outcomes?
 
Creator Singh, Vivek Kumar
Arora, Parveen
Uddin, Ashraf
Bhattacharya, Sujit
 
Subject Fractional Counting
Indian research
Research output ranking
Scholarly databases
Whole counting
 
Description 42-50
During the last two decades, India has emerged as a major knowledge producer in the world, however different reports put it at different ranks, varying from 3rd to 9th places. The recent commissioned study reports of Department of Science and Technology (DST) done by Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics, rank India at 5th and 9th places, respectively. On the other hand, an independent report by National Science Foundation (NSF) of United States (US), ranks India at 3rd place on research output in Science and Engineering area. Interestingly, both, the Elsevier and the NSF reports use Scopus data, and yet surprisingly their outcomes are different. This article, therefore, attempts to investigate as to how the use of same database can still produce different outcomes, due to differences in methodological approaches. The publication counting method used and the subject selection approach are the two main exogenous factors identified to cause these variations. The implications of the analytical outcomes are discussed with special focus on policy perspectives.
 
Date 2021-01-04T09:18:59Z
2021-01-04T09:18:59Z
2021-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/55856
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source JSIR Vol.80(01) [January 2021]