According to an analysis by Arunachalam1,India’s rank in world output of scientific papers covered in the Science
Citation Index (SCI) slid down from 8th in 1980 to 15th in 2000, with the number of papers indexed in SCI falling from 14,987 in 1980 to 12,127 in 2000. On the other hand, China and South Korea have shown considerable increase (e.g. 924 to 22,061 papers from 1980 to 2000 by China).