Only 16% of India’s research work get recognition in World's Top 10 Journals

Only 16% of India’s research work get recognition in World's Top 10 Journals

A report published by the government has revealed that only 15.8 percent of India’s research work is published in the top 10 journals globally. The report further indicated the dire need of the nation to focus on the quality research in the country. When compared globally, India lags behind the UK, which has 37.3 percent research work published in top 10 journals, the US (36.2 percent), Germany (33.4 percent) and China (27.6 percent). According to Scimago Journal Rankings, India ranks fifth in the global research publication output but the top spots are continuously reserved by the US, China, Germany and the UK both in terms of qualitative and quantitative research. "Presently, sizeable numbers of research and technology institutions/universities are spread across the nation, which includes central/state government funded and self-financed institutions. Despite these huge investments, the quality of research and innovation (R&I) is not of current global standards. Moreover, none of these institutions are amongst the top 100 R&I institutions in the world. Also, the quality of the workforce produced by these institutions is not amongst the best in the world," the HRD Ministry's Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP) report has said. The report has called for increasing the share on investment in research in order to obtain the global standards and research, innovation and development. "India's R&I investments vis-a-vis global standards show that India's R&I investments have steadily dropped over the last decade - from 0.84 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2008 to around 0.69 percent in 2018. For the sake of comparison, the levels of R&I investment as a proportion of GDP in some other countries are the US (2.8 percent), China (2.1 percent), Israel (4.3 percent) and South Korea (4.2 percent)," it added. The report further pointed out that with a significant increase in the investment in research and innovation, China now produces the maximum number of PhDs globally and produces four times the number of articles than India. On the other hand, India’s investment in research has steadily declined over the years and as a result India severely lags in patents and publications produced.

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