Assessment of science and technology literature of China and India as reflected in the SCI/SSCI

The science and technology (S&T) literature of India and China was analysed individually and then compared. Records having at least one author with an India or China address were retrieved from the Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index databases. Bibliometrics and computational linguistics analyses were performed on these retrieved records to generate the technical infrastructure (key authors, centres of excellence, etc.) and technical structure (pervasive technical thrusts, relationships among thrusts, etc.) of the Chinese and Indian S&T literature, and to compare them. A variety of analytical techniques were used to examine the infrastructure and technical structure from multiple perspectives, including factor analysis, correlation mapping, and document clustering (both traditional and fuzzy). The summary results and conclusions from these studies are described. The first section of the article presents an assessment of S&T literature of China. The second section presents an assessment of S&T literature of India, and the third section compares research outputs of India and China from multiple perspectives.