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Madhan, Muthu
- Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published?
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1 DST Centre for Policy Research, Archives and Publication Cell, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy 502 285, IN
3 Knowledge Resources Centre, Central Elecrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi 630 003, IN
1 DST Centre for Policy Research, Archives and Publication Cell, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy 502 285, IN
3 Knowledge Resources Centre, Central Elecrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi 630 003, IN
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Current Science, Vol 112, No 04 (2017), Pagination: 703-713Abstract
Paying to publish is an ethical issue. During 2010-14 Indian researchers have used 488 open access (OA) journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from US$ 7.5 to 5,000, to publish about 15,400 papers. Use of OA journals levying APC has increased from 242 journals and 2,557 papers in 2010 to 328 journals and 3,634 papers in 2014. We estimate that India is potentially spending about US$ 2.4 million annually on APCs paid to OA journals and the amount would be much more if we add APCs paid to make papers published in hybrid journals open access. It would be prudent for Indian authors to make their work freely available through interoperable repositories, a trend that is growing in Latin America and China, especially when funding is scarce. Scientists are ready to pay APC as long as institutions pay for it and funding agencies are not ready to insist that grants provided for research should not be used for paying APC.Full Text
- Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published?
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Current Science, Vol 112, No 06 (2017), Pagination: 1239-1239Abstract
We inadvertently missed to present the total number of papers written by Indian researchers in the first sentence under the Discussion section (page 707). Please read the sentence as 'Over 14.4% (or 37,122) of the 256,822 papers from India as seen from SCIE have been published in OA journals'.Full Text
- Chemistry Research in India:Making Progress, but not Rapidly
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1 DST Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Knowledge Resources Centre, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi 630 003, IN
1 DST Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Knowledge Resources Centre, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi 630 003, IN
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Current Science, Vol 112, No 07 (2017), Pagination: 1330-1339Abstract
Against the backdrop of comments on chemistry research in India made in three recent reports prepared by Nature Index, Elsevier and Thomson Reuters, we have made a scientometric analysis of contributions from India in leading multidisciplinary chemistry journals over the 25-year period 1991-2015. We have compared India's performance with that of China as a benchmark. Overall, the number of chemistry papers from India increased steadily between 2007 and 2014. The threeyear moving average of number of papers during the period grew at a compound annual growth rate of 8.9%, and the overall increase in papers was accompanied by a more than proportionate increase in the leading journals. Also, the average number of cites received by papers with at least one author from India in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) and Accounts of Chemical Research was higher than the world average. Despite its huge share of the world's population (~17%), India continues to be poorly represented in the top journals: the country's share of papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society is 0.7% compared to 58.4% for USA, 7.6% for Germany and 5.1% for China, and its share in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. is 1.2% compared to 28% for Germany, 25.3% for USA and 9.9% for China. This could be due to the fact that till recently Indian universities did not encourage mobility across disciplines. That only a small number of Indian researchers and institutions publish in leading journals is also a matter for concern. India accounts for only a small number of papers in the top one percentile of the most highly cited chemistry papers, whereas China leads the world. Only 2.3% of the 2234 papers published in 2014 that are in the top one percentile is from India compared to 38% from China.Keywords
Chemistry Research, International Collaboration, Multidisciplinary Journals, Scientometric Analysis.Full Text
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