Mapping new biology research in India and China: an analysis of publications, citations and international collaboration

摘要

New biology research in the two most populous countries of the world, India and China, has been mapped based on publications and citation data. We have identified institutions publishing large number of papers, cities and states contributing the papers, journals used to publish the papers classified by subfield, journal country and impact factor, highly cited papers, and internationally coauthored papers. China's publication output has been growing much faster than India's in the period 1992-2001, and in fact China now publishes a much larger number than India. However, India's 1995 papers have been cited more often, on average, than the Chinese papers. The number of papers from China published in journals of impact factor greater than 3.0 has increased from 1995 to 1998 at about 13 % per annum, double the growth rate of such papers from India. The percent share of such papers from India has remained the same at 8.8%, whereas it remained above 11.5% for China. Only a handful of institutions in both India and China have published consistently well in both 1995 and 1998. In both countries a substantial part of the highly cited papers were written in collaboration with foreign institutions, China again having a much higher percent of such papers than India. We have identified the important institutions in India and China that have contributed the better cited papers and the papers from the 1995 data set that have been cited at least 25 times. Contrary to general perception, academic institutions contribute the bulk of India's research papers.