About the portal
The Indian Science Reports portal is a repository of various quantitative indicators of Indian
Scientific research during the period 2010-19. While some indicator values (namely, TP, TC and
Cited %) are taken from the scholarly database Dimensions, most of the other indicators are
computed by using standard Scientometric methods. Some values (such as x and x(g) index) are
computed by using network-based and text-based analytical methods. Relevant comparisons with
other major countries are also provided.
The main objective of the portal is to provide a glance at indicators and values related to
Indian research output, both overall and from different institutions. The analysis
presented shows indicators about research output, citations, authorship, international
collaboration, gender distribution, open access, research grants and social media visibility
etc. for the Indian research output during 2010-19. The portal also includes institutional
reports on these indicators for 1000 Indian institutions, which have significant amount of
research output during the period.
The portal does not, in any way, attempts to do any kind of research performance assessment or
ranking of one or more Indian institutions. Therefore, it should not be viewed as research
performance assessment exercise, which would require a lot of more data (such as number of
researchers, research budget, research facilities etc.) and several normalizations (such as
publications per capita, output per unit of funding etc.). The portal can be best viewed as an
academic exercise to provide useful quantitative indicators & values of Indian scientific
research, both at the level of the country and at the level of individual institutions.
The access to the
Dimensions
and
Altmetric
data for use on this portal was provided by the
Digital Science
team. The Indian Science Reports team thanks them for their support.
Individuals/ Organisations interested in a more detailed analysis or research related data for
their organisation may contact them
here.
The development of this portal has been partially supported by an extra-mural research project
titled 'Design of a Computational Framework for discipline-wise and Thematic mapping of Research
Performance of Indian Higher Education Institutions' from the NSTMIS division, Department of
Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.