TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
A1  - Muthu, Madhan
A1  - Subbiah, Arunachalam
TI  - Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings
UR  - http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10may2011/1297.pdf
JF  - Current Science
SN  - 0011-3891
PB  - Indian Academy of Sciences
N2  - Most of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian
researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals?
We have looked at India?s contribution to all seven Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals,
10 BioMed Central (BMC) journals and Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports.
Indian crystallographers have published more than 2,000 structure reports in Acta Crystallographica,
second only to China in number of papers, but have a much better citations per paper average than
USA, Britain, Germany and France, China and South Korea. India?s contribution to BMC and
PLoS journals, on the other hand, is modest at best. We suggest that the better option for India is
institutional self-archiving.
KW  - Impact factor
KW  -  open access
KW  -  science citation index
KW  -  Web of Science
Y1  - 2011///
SP  - 1297
ID  - icrisat1
EP  - 1306
VL  - 100
IS  - 9
ER  -