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In Indian Science and Technology Research, Quantity Trumps Quality
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India's scientific publications grew 13.9% between 2009 and 2013, against the global average increase of 4.1%, according to the Elsevier Report 2016, a study commissioned by India's Department of Science and Technology.
The study looked at the work of 366,455 active researchers who are working with or are affiliated to Indian institutions. But the growing share of paper output has not been matched by an impact on scientific progress or commercialization. In 2013, India's share of world citations was 3.4%, lower than its share of paper output at 4.4%.
Elsevier uses a yardstick called field weighted citation impact, which looks at a paper's citation compared to the average citations in that research field for a particular year. That too shows that Indian research papers are cited 25% less than the world average.
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