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Science in
India, 1997-2001
India's world share of
science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period,
expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI
database. Also, India's relative citation impact compared to the
world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from India |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Agricultural
Sciences |
5.68 |
-71 |
| Materials
Science |
4.41 |
-37 |
| Chemistry
|
3.67 |
-46 |
| Plant
& Animal Sciences |
3.43 |
-75 |
| Physics |
3.10 |
-36 |
| Space
Science |
2.52 |
-52 |
| Geosciences |
2.51 |
-57 |
| Engineering |
2.45 |
-45 |
|
**<---
India's overall percent share, all fields: 2.17 --->** |
| Pharmacology |
2.08 |
-65 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
2.07 |
-64 |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
1.71 |
-71 |
| Microbiology |
1.60 |
-63 |
| Computer
Science |
1.49 |
-45 |
| Mathematics |
1.31 |
-32 |
| Clinical
Medicine |
0.89 |
-62 |
| Molecular
Biology |
0.83 |
-73 |
| Immunology |
0.74 |
-63 |
| Social
Sciences |
0.70 |
-59 |
| Economics
& Business |
0.62 |
-52 |
| Neurosciences
|
0.48 |
-62 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry
|
0.27 |
-49 |
Between 1997 and 2001,
ISI indexed 76,970 papers that listed at least one author address in
India. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals
classified in the field of agricultural sciences, followed by
materials science. In materials, as the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper average, or impact, of papers from India was 37%
below the world average in the field (1.24 cites per paper for
India, versus a world baseline of 1.97 cites). Although India has
not yet equaled the world average in any of the subject fields
shown, there were fields, in addition to materials science, that
proved to be areas of relative strength, including physics,
mathematics, and computer science.
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