India will overtake the United States in the variety of scientific publications by 2029, Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh mentioned at a public perform on Friday (February 29, 2025) to commemorate National Science Day.
“Future projections say that we will overcome the United States in the number of (scientific) publications in the next four years, by 2029. These are facts that are not known very widely but these are extremely important to us,” mentioned Dr. Singh. He didn’t cite a selected supply however a 2023 rating by the U.S.-based National Science Foundation of nations’ scientific output says that China, with 898,949 publications leads the world, adopted by the U.S. (457,335) and India (207,390).
Dr. Singh additionally cited a December 31, 2024 compilation of the highest 2% of scientists in the world that claims that in this record, there have been 5,351 Indian scientists. “This is something that would have been unbelievable a few years ago and cynics will not believe, even today. But the figures speak for themselves,” he remarked.
The ‘Top 2% Scientists’, an annual compilation by the U.S.’ Stanford University and scientific writer, Elsevier, ranks scientists by fields and variety of highly-cited publications. India with 5,351 scientists ranks 10th with the U.S., ranked 1st, with 71,392 scientists and China 2nd with 27,165 scientists.
Dr. Singh said that the budgetary allocations for numerous departments have seen vital progress over time. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) acquired an allocation of ₹2,777 crore in 2013-14, which has surged to ₹28,509 crore in 2024-25, marking a 926% enhance. Similarly, the Department of Science and Industrial Research (DSIR) noticed its allocation rise from ₹2,013 crore in 2013-14 to ₹6,658 crore in 2024-25, reflecting a 230% enhance. The Department of Space (DOS) skilled a progress from ₹5,615 crore in 2013-14 to ₹13,416 crore in 2024-25, ensuing in a 139% enhance.
National Science Day is well known by the federal government to mark the invention of the Raman Effect by Sir C.V. Raman, the one resident Indian to have been conferred a Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1930.
Published – March 01, 2025 03:02 am IST
