The present study aims to know the contribution of Indian scientists in foreign journal. For this, a scientometric study has been conducted on PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science) which is the world's first multidisciplinary Open Access journal of United States. A survey was conducted by using ‘Advanced Search’ feature of the Web of Science (WoS) database. The present study is limited to the time span of 2012-2016 and it was found that, total articles published during this period were 133,897 of which India contributed 3,174 (2.37%) articles. Analysis of the data revealed that all the top contributing countries were developed countries except Brazil and India which contribute 2.95% and 2.37% respectively. Hence the contribution of under-developed country like India is notable. The study identified CSIR as the top most contributing institution in India. Also, the authorship pattern showed that the Indian scientists are very much inclined towards collaborative authorship.

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印度科学家在 PLOS ONE 中的贡献：科学计量分析

本研究旨在了解印度科学家在国外期刊上的贡献。为此，已对美国第一本多学科开放获取期刊 PLOS ONE（公共科学图书馆）进行了科学计量研究。使用 Web of Science (WoS) 数据库的“高级搜索”功能进行了一项调查。本研究仅限于 2012-2016 年的时间跨度，发现在此期间发表的文章总数为 133,897，其中印度贡献了 3,174 (2.37%) 篇。数据分析显示，除巴西和印度分别贡献2.95%和2.37%外，所有贡献最大的国家都是发达国家。因此，像印度这样的欠发达国家的贡献是显着的。该研究将 CSIR 确定为印度贡献最大的机构。此外，作者模式表明印度科学家非常倾向于合作作者身份。