According to a study India lags behind even Kenya in research.
The country has only four researchers for 10,000 working people while Kenya and Chile have six and seven, respectively, according to Scopus database which is the world's largest abstract and citation database on scientific literature.
Analyzing this data, Nature magazine says Brazil, which has been growing scientifically, has 14 researchers per 10,000 working people, and China has 18. The UK and the US top the table with 79 researchers each followed by Russia with 58.
Nature Magazine, in its May 2015 report, also said: "India's publications generate fewer citations on an average than those of other science-focused nations, including Brazil and China."
It further states that relative to its size, India has very few scientists and many Indian-born researchers leave for positions abroad, while very few foreign scientists settle in India. According to Scopus data analyzed by Nature, there are only 2 lakh fulltime researchers in India with 14% of them being women.
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