Status of Materials Science Research in India Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India B.S. Murty

National Output of Materials Science Research Papers indexed in Web of Science ( ) Top ten countries ranked by number of papers S.NoCountryPapers 1.China55,003 2.USA38,189 3.Japan25,473 4.Germany16,832 5.South Korea15,261 6.India12,693 7.France12,344 8.UK11,611 9.Russia7, Taiwan7,410 Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters

Quality aspects of the publications from India and other leading countries in Materials Science: Indexed in Web of Science, Ranked by Impact ( ) S.NoCountryPapersCitationsImpact 1.USA38,189222, EU-1553,283216, Taiwan7,41085, Japan25,47323, South Korea15,26147, China55,003143, India12,69332, Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters

Indian Universities on Global Map in Materials Science Research: World top 5, Indexed in Web of Science, InstitutionsPapersInstitutionsCitationsInstitutionsImpact Chinese Academy of Sciences 14,019Chinese Academy of Sciences 104,104University of Washington Russian Academy of Sciences 6,679Max Planck Society, Germany 56,720University of California Santa Barbara Tohoku University5,511Tohoku University40,135University of California Berkeley Tsinghua University 5,129NIMS, Japan36,578University of Groningen Indian Institute of Technology 4,522MIT, USA35,329Harvard University No Indian University in Top 20 also, in terms of citations and impact – Calls for more focus on Quality Aspects Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters

Contribution of Scientific Disciplines from India to publications in top 1% journals – Top 5 RankDiscipline No of papers in Top 1% impact journal ( ) No of papers in Top 1% impact journal ( ) 1.Engineering Chemistry Physics Materials Science Clinical Medicine Source: Bibliometric Study of India’s Scientific Publications Outputs during , July 2012, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi

Premier Institutes in India for Materials Science Research Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Indian Institutes of Technology Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore National Institutes of Technology Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Ambernath Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

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