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Vohora, S., Vohora, D. Why are Indian journals' impact factors so low?. Nature 412, 583 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35088214
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Deepak Kumar
There is a lot of reasons behind .
1) lack of intrest in research of students because of future insecurity
2) Lack of money in research
3) After phd did no job assurance from govt. And many more reasons
Wake up Rascals
Indian science is in a gigantic mess.. a mess of astronomical magnitude. This problem is further compounded by extraordinary political interference into science such that a politicians with class 12th merit decides the course of research in India. Funds in research is cut shamelessly and whatever is available is distributed ONLY to the lobby group mostly with little or no merit. Research institutes are opened at the bacterial breeding rate with little or no clear mandate as to why we even need them... 21 AIIMS like and dozens of IITS! 95% of Indian researchers are engaged in reverse engineering like research like copying the western idea and implementing in Indian perspective with no originality at all. Highest awards in science are given to the most connected and political lobby scientist even with a mediocre productivity. Out of 2000 Indian journals, just 47 are listed in ISI list and none of these 47 have impact factor more then 0.5! That's enough of a shame to bear. Thousands of patents filed from India are just copy of Idea from Western counterparts and thus have zero innovation value. Mismanagement is at its peak. Last month, one of Indian premier funding agency DBT hosted a high level meeting in Lucknow to think over this mismanagement ! only to come up with a solution of cutting research funding to mere 25 lakhs for 3 three years( totally insane idea) to prevent wastage of grant money.. insider report latter emerged that this meeting took place in a high rated hotel and a total bill of 19 crore was spent just to organize and pamper the dignitaries ! This is their formula to reduce government costing ! What a shame