An Overview of China’s and India’s Science and Technology Literature
用文献计量数据解读中国和印度的科技发展

The science and technology (S&T) literatures of India and China were analyzed individually, 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, Centers of Excellence, etc) and technical structure (pervasive technical thrusts, relationships among thrusts) of the Chinese and Indian S&T literatures, and to compare these literatures. 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 were described. The first section of the paper presented an assessment of China’s S&T literature; the second section presented an assessment of India’s S&T literature; and the third section compared India’s and China’s research outputs from multiple perspectives.