India in top 5 countries in research
4 May 2018 4:33 AM IST
New Delhi: The initiatives taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote scientific research has started yielding results as India has moved ahead of Japan, France, Italy, Canada and Australia in the field of the scientific research paper published in reputed journals.
According to the latest report of Elsevier, India has become a part of top five countries the field of research by leaving behind France and Japan in just three years. Now America, China, Britain and Germany are ahead of India in terms of research.
Notably, Elsevier is a reputed global publishing house that publishes about 2,500 journals, including The Lancet, Cell, online citation database Scopus, the ScienceDirect, etc.
According to the report, from the year 2014 to 2017, a total of 5,58,630 researchers from India published 5,64,369 papers, which is the fifth highest in the world.
The main attraction of the published research is that above 87 per cent of papers were on science and technology research, while the percentage of research related to social science was only 2.3. Engineering stands at the first position with 14.4 per cent research works in the subject, while Medicine is at the second slot with 10.6 per cent research papers and Computer Science ranked third with 10.6 per cent research.
Giving credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the landmark achievement, Union Human Resource Minister Prakash Javadekar said, "It's the outcome of the emphasis given to research by PM Narendra Modi that India moved up by two notches up from 7th to 5th as largest contributor in the world for publications of journals in Scopus."
While congratulating India's scientific community for the phenomenal increase in research output, Javadekar said, "The average research produced per year in India is 50 per cent higher as compared to the years between 2010-2014."
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