Arunachalam, S. and Madhan, M. and Gunasekaran, S.
(2017)
Chemistry research in India: making progress,
but not rapidly.
Current Science, 112 (7).
pp. 1330-1339.
ISSN 0011-3891
Abstract
Against the backdrop of comments on chemistry research in India made in three recent reports
prepared by Nature Index, Elsevier and Thomson Reuters, we have made a scientometric analysis
of contributions from India in leading multidisciplinary chemistry journals over the 25-year period
1991–2015. We have compared India’s performance with that of China as a benchmark. Overall,
the number of chemistry papers from India increased steadily between 2007 and 2014. The threeyear moving average of number of papers during the period grew at a compound annual growth
rate of 8.9%, and the overall increase in papers was accompanied by a more than proportionate
increase in the leading journals. Also, the average number of cites received by papers with at least
one author from India in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) and
Accounts of Chemical Research was higher than the world average. Despite its huge share of the
world’s population (~17%), India continues to be poorly represented in the top journals: the country’s share of papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society is 0.7% compared to 58.4%
for USA, 7.6% for Germany and 5.1% for China, and its share in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. is 1.2%
compared to 28% for Germany, 25.3% for USA and 9.9% for China. This could be due to the fact
that till recently Indian universities did not encourage mobility across disciplines. That only a small
number of Indian researchers and institutions publish in leading journals is also a matter for concern. India accounts for only a small number of papers in the top one percentile of the most highly
cited chemistry papers, whereas China leads the world. Only 2.3% of the 2234 papers published in
2014 that are in the top one percentile is from India compared to 38% from China
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Chemistry research; international collaboration; multidisciplinary journals; scientometric analysis |
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| Depositing User: |
Dr. N Meyyappan
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| Date Deposited: |
17 May 2019 11:16 |
| Last Modified: |
17 May 2019 11:16 |
| URI: |
http://cecri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/3242 |
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