NEW DELHI : Despite harbouring the second maximum burden of coronavirus infections in the world, India contributed an average of less than 7% of total scientific research done during the covid-19 pandemic globally, showed an analysis published in the Scientometrics journal.The authors said that scientists across the world came out with an “astonishing" number of over 87,000 scientific papers.
The analysis was focussed on China, the first economy that suffered from the pandemic, as well as the 10 most-affected countries the USA, India, France, Brazil, the United Kingdom (UK), Italy, Spain, Russia, Belgium, and Poland in terms of cumulative covid-19 cases to date as recorded by Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.Also Read | Bitter home.