SCIENCE IN INDIA - A PROFILE BASED ON INDIA'S PUBLICATIONS AS COVERED BY SCIENCE CITATION INDEX 1989-1992

With a view to mapping scientific research in india, we have analysed papers originating in India and indexed in the CD-ROM version of Science Citation Index (SCI) in the four years 1989-1992. With more than 10000 papers in each year (more than 42000 papers in about 2300 journals indexed in SCI in the four years), India is the twelfth largest publishing nation, down from eighth in 1980. Italy, the Netherlands, Australia and spain have published...