India’s growing role in global research and publishing: Why it matters
Published in Healthcare & Nursing, Astronomy, and Social Sciences
With India’s increasing research output and influence, you stand to benefit from the diversification of voices, perspectives, and approaches in scholarly work that can enrich your own explorations. This could also enable you to identify new avenues for collaboration in regions beyond your immediate circles.
The second report in Springer Nature’s Global Research Pulse series explores India’s maturing and increasingly influential research environment. You’ll get data and analyses to learn more about Indian research output, which can help you to position your work strategically for relevance, visibility, and impact in the ever-globalising research landscape.
Why focus on India?
There’s a lot of research coming from India: It is the second-fastest-growing nation in total article count. Here at Springer Nature, India is the second-largest source of submissions to our journals, and globally, it is the third-highest contributor to research.
Importantly, this growth is not limited to publication volume. In parallel, there’s a steady increase in the impact and quality of India’s research. India is the third-highest contributor to the top 10% highly cited articles, and ranks among the top three nations for high-impact research in applied, physical, and life sciences. Indeed, nearly 70% of all articles are published in the top 50% of journals across all subject areas.
What you’ll find in the report
We review how India created the conditions to enable it to become an important player in the global scholarly environment and within academic publishing. We discuss the strategic investments, institutional reforms, and international collaborations that facilitate India’s growth in the volume and quality of its research output.
To support readers in identifying research excellence across India’s large and diverse research landscape, the report shares sources like formal rankings and explains how they can be useful in comparing institutions internationally, as well as other publishing tools to explore institutions by specific disciplines.
Ritu Dhand was appointed Chief Scientific Officer, Springer Nature in January 2022. In this role, she is responsible for championing and driving editorial excellence across the Springer Nature Journals Portfolio. She is committed to promoting open and inclusive publishing values and ensuring trust in research publishing.
The role builds upon a foundation in publishing as Vice President Nature Journals, where she oversaw the editorial strategy and management of Nature, Nature Communications, and the Nature Research and Review Journals.
Her scientific career has spanned across research and publishing, with first hand experience as a cancer editor on Nature before being promoted to the position of Nature, Chief Biological Sciences Editor, overseeing all the research published and managing the life Sciences team for 13 years. Prior to that, she spent over 10 years in cancer research, completing her PhD at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University College London, London and her postdoctoral studies at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
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