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New
Delhi: Though India is among the top 13 countries in terms of published scientific
research papers, it sorely lags behind China as revealed by the Science Watch
team of Thomson ISI''s data. Thomson
ISI, also known as Thomson Scientific, a global leader in providing access to
high-value, essential information for researchers and scholars worldwide for over
45 years. Science
Watch, a subscription newsletter, uses citation data from Thomson Scientific
to provide rankings, interviews and reports on what it calls "today''s most
significant science". In
its study, 13 countries are ranked based on both the volume and percentage of
published scientific papers, in journals listed in Thomson Scientific''s Web of
Science, that reached the top one per cent of most-cited papers worldwide. Subbiah
Arunachalam, a long-term campaigner for Indian research has revealed that: "Apart
from encouraging our scientists to do better quality work and providing them better
facilities and a conducive environment, it is necessary to increase the visibility
of Indian research publications, for example through placing our papers in institutional
repositories or publishing them in open access journals," he argued. In
terms of total papers in all fields from 1996 to 2006, India ranked 11th, ahead
of South
Korea and Taiwan. Its share was under one-tenth of the US, the leader which had
almost three million papers published in this period. The
June 2007 issue of KnowledgeLink Newsletter noted that the May-June issue
of Science Watch ranked 13 countries based on published scientific papers
that reach the top one per cent of most cited papers worldwide from 1996 to 2006.
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