Assessment of Scientific Productivity by India and South Korea

B. Elango; Dong-Geun Oh; Periyaswamy Rajendran

doi:10.14429/djlit.41.03.16558

B. Elango IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram - 605 108, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8938-0155
Dong-Geun Oh Department of Library and Information Science, Keimyung University, South Korea https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3620-9901
Periyaswamy Rajendran SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattangulathur - 603 203, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.41.03.16558

Keywords: Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Scientific output, Productivity, Rank, India, South Korea

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to make a quantitative analysis and to compare scientific productivity between the countries of India and South Korea: both countries offer scholarships and fellowships for various programs and disciplines. The data are collected from SCOPUS through the open access portal www.scimagojr.com and mainly focus on rank and number of publications, global publication share and growth of publications, international collaboration pattern, quality of publications, and open access pattern. Various bibliometric indicators have been used along with simple percentage. Further, a new relative indicator Relative Open Access Index (ROAI) is proposed to compare the number of documents in an open access platform with its overall scientific production. Among the most productive countries, India is ranked at fifth and South Korea at thirteenth in the year 2018. India improved by eight positions while South Korea did by three from 1998 to 2018 at the global level. South Korea has a higher proportion of publications with international collaboration as compared to India. Both countries maintain better positions in a few disciplines such as chemical engineering and materials science.