Mapping the Research Collaboration between India and USA during 2007-2016

Abstract

The research collaboration trend between India and USA during 2007-2016 was evaluated on the basis of research publications indexed in Scopus database. Research collaboration of 55607 documents has been analyzed to see the international collaboration pattern between India and USA during the period. The trend of research publications in collaboration was assessed by analyzing; year-wise collaboration pattern, year-wise collaboration with other countries, growth trend in collaboration with USA, types of documents used for publishing research results, top institutes/universities which are associated with research collaboration, top source titles based on the number of publications, subject categories in research collaboration, etc. International collaboration patterns institutions and countries have been studied in the paper. The results of the study showed that major areas of collaboration between India and USA are in the field of medicines, followed by physics and astronomy, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology during 2007-2016.