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India’s Rank and Global Share in Scientific Research: How Data Sourced from Different Databases Can Produce Varying Outcomes?

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Title India’s Rank and Global Share in Scientific Research: How Data Sourced from Different Databases Can Produce Varying Outcomes?
 
Creator Singh, Prashasti
Singh, Vivek Kumar
Arora, Parveen
Bhattacharya, Sujit
 
Subject Indian Research
Research Performance
Scholarly Databases
Scopus
Web of Science
 
Description 336-346
India is emerging as a major knowledge producer of the world in terms of proportionate share of global research output and the overall research productivity rank. Many recent reports, both of commissioned studies from Government of India as well as independent international agencies, show India at different ranks of global research productivity (variations as large as from 3rd to 9th place). The paper examines this contradiction; tries to analyse as to why different reports place India at different ranks and what may be the reasons thereof. The research output data for India, along with the ten most productive countries in the world, is analysed from three major scholarly databases- Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions for this purpose. Results show that both, the endogenous factors (such as database coverage variation and different subject classification schemes) and the exogenous factors (such as subject selection and publication counting methodology) cause the variations in different reports. This paper focuses mainly on the first factor- variations due to use of data from different databases. The policy implications of the study are also discussed.
 
Date 2021-06-14T07:06:29Z
2021-06-14T07:06:29Z
2021-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/57476
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source JSIR Vol.80(04) [April 2021]