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iii) In Engineering discipline, India’s contribution to the World publications is 7.10% (higher by 2.29% than
Overall category), and 99.98% of total publications output in Engineering discipline is from eligible
institutions in India Rankings.

iv) In case of Pharmacy, India’s contribution to the World publications is 6.58% (higher by 1.77% than Overall
category). However, only 53.14% of publications in Pharmacy comes from eligible institutions in India
Rankings which indicate towards existence of a sizable pharmaceutical industry in the country that is active
in research as well as in publication of their research output in peer reviewed journals.

Discipline / Category No. of Research Publications
World India Eligible
(1) (2) Institutions
Overall (All) 10680401 514196 450987
4.81% of (1) 87.71% of (2)

Engineering 3191580 226562 226506
7.10% of (1) 99.98% of (2)
Management 141380 7518 5788
5.32% of (1) 76.99% of (2)
Pharmacy 257157 18251 9698
6.58% of (1) 53.14% of (2)

Table 13: Research Publications of Eligible Institutions in Comparison to

Total Research Publications of the World and India

Fig. 12: Research Publications of Eligible Institutions in Comparison to Total Research
Publications of the World and India (On a Logarithmic Scale)

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