Creating an Impact in the Global Research Surge

In the last decade, there has been a remarkable rise in the research across the world and middle and lower-income countries, accounting for the most substantial growth.[1] According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States, India stands among the top three in the world ranking in fields of Science & Engineering (S&E), contributing 5.31% of the total research output in 2018, along with China (20.67%) and the United States (16.54%).[2] With an impressive average annual growth of 10.73% between 2008 and 2018, India is among the “fast-growing” in terms of research output, marching ahead of China and the United States. Further, NSF 2018 data shows, between 2003 and 2014, a massive 304% increase in medical articles from India, which is again far ahead of the developed counties. However, the scientific world does not merely recognize the volume alone but by its impact on others by citations. The citation data provide indications of scientific impact or influence by counting how frequently other journal articles reference an article. The S&E publication output in the top 1% of the cited publications from 2006 to 2016 shows doubling India's performance (from 0.33 to 0.70), however, remains lesser to the United States (1.88), European Union (1.30), China (1.12), and Japan (0.88).[3] In this upward trend, there appears to be higher collaborative work with multiple authors and international coauthorship for the research.[4] Contrary to this trend, the research publications in India are still published mainly by domestic authors with less than 20% international collaboration.[5]

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