Data & Methodology
The Indian Science Reports portal provides indicators & values 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 not only present analytical
results about Indian
research but also compares the values with related values for some other major countries.
The portal also
includes institutional reports containing different analysis for 1000 Indian institutions.
The data for analysis is obtained from multiple sources and processed using standard
scientometric,
computational, network-theoretic and text-based methods. The
Dimensions
scholarly database is taken as
primary source of research metadata and inputs from several other sources such as
Altmetric.com
and
Gender API
etc. are also used. The portal only provides computed indicators of Indian scientific
research
and does not in any way expose any data taken from the different sources.
In terms of methodological approach choices, we have used whole counting for research output
values.
The citations are analysed both as absolute counts as well as relative citation ratio. Cited
percentage
of research output is computed by identifying proportion of research output that got at
least one or
more citation. The collaboration patterns are identified from author affiliation field and a
research
paper is considered as an instance of international collaboration if it involves authors
from at least
two countries. A research paper is called Domestic-Single Institution if it involves authors
from a
single institution only. A research paper is denoted as Domestic- Multi Institution if it
involves
authors from at least two different institutions of the same country.
The gender of the first author of each research paper is determined by using the GenderAPI
service.
Based on the value returned by the API, a research paper is categorised as female 1st
authored or male
1st authored depending on whether the first author is a female or male, respectively.
Confidence
level of more than 70% is used, i.e. gender determination by API is taken as successful if
it returns
an accuracy of more than 70% with it.
The data for grants and open access availability are taken as obtained from the Dimensions
database.
The grants data for both domestic and international funding agencies is obtained and
analysed. The open
access availability in different forms (gold, green, bronze, hybrid) are captured and
analysed.
Several indicators, such as CAGR and h-type indices are computed as per their standard
definitions.
The computation of x-index and x(g) index is as per the idea proposed in
Lathabai, Nandy & Singh (2021).
Some external data (such as international and
NIRF
rankings) for selected Indian institutions are also
obtained from respective sources and presented as it is. The description for institutions is
obtained
from Wikipedia and their logo is obtained from a web scrapping of Wikipedia and the
institutional
webpages.