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Scientometric profile of organic chemistry research in India during 2004–2013


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1 Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India
2 CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

An analysis of 17,344 papers published by Indian scientists and indexed by Web of Science in the discipline of organic chemistry and its sub-disciplines during 2004-2013 indicates that the Indian output has increased significantly in the later period. Academic institutions contributed about 46% of the total output followed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with 26% of the total output. The most prolific institutions among them mainly belonging to academic institutions and CSIR contributed about 60% of the total output. The value of citation per paper for most of the prolific institutions was higher than the Indian average. Similar trend was observed for the relative citation impact. Indian researchers in the discipline of organic chemistry published their papers in international journals with impact factor greater than 1. About 11% of the papers published by Indian scientists in the discipline of organic chemistry during 2004-2013 remained uncited.

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Bibliometric indicators, citation analysis, organic chemistry, scientometrics
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Authors

S. Dwivedi
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India
S. Kumar
CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India
K. C. Garg
CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India

Abstract


An analysis of 17,344 papers published by Indian scientists and indexed by Web of Science in the discipline of organic chemistry and its sub-disciplines during 2004-2013 indicates that the Indian output has increased significantly in the later period. Academic institutions contributed about 46% of the total output followed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with 26% of the total output. The most prolific institutions among them mainly belonging to academic institutions and CSIR contributed about 60% of the total output. The value of citation per paper for most of the prolific institutions was higher than the Indian average. Similar trend was observed for the relative citation impact. Indian researchers in the discipline of organic chemistry published their papers in international journals with impact factor greater than 1. About 11% of the papers published by Indian scientists in the discipline of organic chemistry during 2004-2013 remained uncited.

Keywords


Bibliometric indicators, citation analysis, organic chemistry, scientometrics

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv109%2Fi5%2F869-877