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creators_name: Muthu, Madhan
creators_name: Subbiah, Arunachalam
icrisatcreators_name: Muthu, Madhan
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: Centre for Internet and Society(Bangalore)
country: India
title: Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings
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subjects: L1
subjects: s2.1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Impact factor, open access, science citation index, Web of Science
agrotags: <b>Agrotags</b>     - diffusion of information | paper | research | marketing techniques | diseases | public health | genomes | planning | public sector | selection <br><b>Fishtags</b>    - fisheries | marine fisheries <br><b>Geopoliticaltags</b> - india | china | usa | britain | israel | brazil | south korea | germany | africa | south africa
abstract: 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.
date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: Current Science
volume: 100
number: 9
publisher: Indian Academy of Sciences
pagerange: 1297-1306
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0011-3891
official_url: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10may2011/1297.pdf
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citation:   Muthu, Madhan and Subbiah, Arunachalam  (2011) Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings.  Current Science, 100 (9).  pp. 1297-1306.  ISSN 0011-3891     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/1/1/1297.pdf