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Table 1 – Indian research papers in SCI and SSCI during 2000 – 2009
[SCI Science Citation Index - Expanded; SSCI Social Science Citation Index]
Year SCI SSCI
No. of
papers
No. of
journals used
No. of
papers
No. of
journals used
2000 18144 2742 658 250
2001 19151 2782 575 267
2002 20664 2911 530 256
2003 22854 3113 677 242
2004 24810 3377 664 266
2005 27560 3610 695 300
2006 31004 3759 838 364
2007 36149 4036 923 440
2008 42037 4400 1165 477
2009 42833 4561 1265 569
Table 2 – India's share of world publications on Thomson Reuters databases in two
periods [Reproduced from Adams et al.]
1999-2003 2004-2008 Rank
Count Share Count Share Share Growth
(%)
(%)
Chemistry 21,206 4.42 33,504 5.71 1 10
Agricultural Sciences 4,303 5.91 5,634 5.65 2 17
Materials Science 6,960 4.08 11,126 4.81 3 9
Pharmacology & Toxicology 2,034 2.8 3,866 4.25 4 3
Plant &Animal Science 8,132 3.58 10,190 3.77 5 19
Physics 11,700 3.00 17,295 3.70 6 14
Engineering 8,101 2.69 14,103 3.57 7 5
Geosciences 2,839 2.64 4,266 3.13 8 13
Space Science 1,322 2.44 1,665 2.79 9 18
Microbiology 1,078 1.62 2,273 2.79 10 2
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