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Monday, October 1, 2012

India’s global research output is just 3.5%: Study

 A recent finding of the study on India's research output and collaboration conducted by Thomson Reuters states that the country had just 3.5% of global research output in 2010. The report which was recently submitted to the department of science and technology has discipline wise data on India’s abysmally low research output.
India's share of world research output in clinical medicine was a meagre 1.9% in 2010, 0.5% in psychiatry, 1.4% in neurosciences, 1.8% in immunology, 2.1% in molecular biology and just 3.5% in environmental research.
The report says that -
 India has been the sleeping giant of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore India as an Asian knowledge hub. Indian higher education is faced with powerful dilemmas and difficult choices - public/private, access/equity, uncertain regulation, different teaching standards and contested research quality,"

India has a long and distinguished history as a country of knowledge, learning and innovation. In the recent past, however, it has failed to realize its undoubted potential as a home for world class research. 

I liked one of the comment by the reader :
Until research in India is freed from political and bureaucratic control there is little chance of India gaining her rightful place in the world of academic research.

Excerpts from: India Education Reviews.com


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