India lags China in published scientific papers: Thomson ISI
29 June 2007
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.
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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: