Amidst Research Output Growth in India, Opportunities Abound to Generate Greater Impact, Reveals Elsevier Report

Amidst Research Output Growth in India,Amidst Research Output Growth in India, Opportunities Abound to Generate Greater Impact, Reveals Elsevier Report PR Newswire NEW DELHI, March 3, 2014 2013 study throws light on India's performance as benchmarked against other research nations A recent study prepared by Elsevier for the UK's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and based on Scopus data, shows that India has achieved substantial growth in research articles output, increasing from 54 thousand in 2008 to 93 thousand in 2012 at an annualized growth rate of 14.4%. This is a rate higher than that of China (10.9%), Brazil (7.9%), Russia (1.9%) and the U.K. (2.9%). Figure: Share of world articles for the UK and comparators Brazil, India, Russia, 2008-2012 with right-hand panel excluding the US and China for clarity. Source: Scopus. Over the same period from 2008 to 2012, India's share of the top 10% of the most cited articles - a proxy for high quality research articles - rose from 2.0% to 3.1% at an annual growth rate of 11.3%, which is higher than Brazil (7.6%), Russia (8.4%) and the U.K. (- 2.7%). Only China surpassed India with a 13.8% annual growth rate. India's field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) - normalized at value of "1" as the world average - is below average at 0.75 and is declining at a rate of 1.6% per year. China has a comparable FWCI to India, but is experiencing an upward annual growth rate of 2.4%.