S&T publications output of Nepal: a quantitative analysis, 2001–10

This study analyses the research output of Nepal in S&T during 2001–10 on several parameters including its growth and country publications share in the world’s research output, country publications share in various subjects in the national and global context, pattern of research communication in core domestic and international journals, geographical distribution of publications, share of international collaborative publications at the national level as well as across subjects and characteristics of high productivity institutions, authors and cited papers. The Scopus Citation Database has been used to retrieve the publication data for 10 years.