India has emerged as the world’s third-largest publisher of science and engineering articles, according to a latest US report created with statistics compiled by the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The data, which was released on Tuesday, stated that in 2008, India published 48,998 science and engineering articles.
This increased to 1,35,788 articles in 2018 and the country now accounts for 5.31 per cent of the total world publications in science and engineering.According to the report, China’s rate of research output has grown almost twice as fast as the world’s annual average for the last 10 years, while the output of the US and the European Union (EU) has grown at less than half the world’s annual growth rate.
The other countries which made it to the top 10 list are Germany (1,04,396), Japan (98,793), UK (97,681), Russia (81,579), Italy (71,240), South Korea (66,376) and France (66,352).
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