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- Between 2006 and 2015, India published 19, 938 research papers in the domain of earth system sciences, nearly twice what it published in the previous decade.
- However in terms of high quality publications, it improved its share from 4.7% in the previous decade (1996-2005) to 5.7% across the two comparative periods, says a report commissioned by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and prepared by analytics firm, Clarivate Analytics.
- This, even as the global research output in the field increased from about 3,40,000 to 5,70,000 of which high quality publications comprised 11% in both decades.
- The analysis included publications in six major areas of earth-science research: Geo research, atmospheric research, Ocean research, Arctic research, Antarctica research and Himalayas research. Of these the majority of Indian publications were in the geo sciences. Particularly, Himalayas-related research nearly tripled across the two periods but the citation impact””a proxy for the quality of the paper among peers””was the lowest among all research areas.
- The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and France led the world in the number of high quality research publications.
- India is now placed 9th among the world’s countries in terms of the number of research publications related to earth sciences.
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