R & D Contribution of Haryana: A Scientometric Assessment of Publications Output During 2005–14

This paper evaluates comparative R&D status and performance of Haryana and India in life sciences, physical sciences, medical sciences, engineering sciences, and social sciences using bibliometric indicators. The data for the study was sourced from SCOPUS databasecovering the period 2005–14. The study revealed that Haryana registered faster growth (14.65%) in R&D output than the whole nation (11.91%). India's research base in R&D sector is 40 times bigger (781, 392) than that of Haryana (19, 464 publications). Haryana registered 2.49% national share in the total output by India during 2005–14. The national and international collaborative share of publications in Haryana's output were 19.96% and 11.23% during 2005–14. Life sciences accounted for the largest share (31.15%), followed by medical sciences (22.64%), engineering sciences (21.85%), physical sciences (19.42% share), and social sciences (4.95%). The most productive 25 organizations, 20 authors and 20 journals together accounted for 75.87%, 9.24% and 18.03% share respectively of the Haryana's research output during 2005–14. In the total output of Haryana, there were only 54 highly cited papers, which received citations from 100 to 1096. Together these highly cited papers received 10049 citations, with an average of 186.09 citations per paper. The leading institutions in highly cited papers were G.J. University of Science &Technology, Hisar (with 11 papers), Ranbaxy Research Labs, Gurgaon and CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (5 papers each), National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (4 papers), National Brain Research Center, Gurgaon and National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (3 papers each) etc.