Stategic collaboration

Facilitating dialogue

Elsevier released a report – Fostering collaboration: a study of scientific publications with authors in G20 countries opens in new tab/window – at a seminar jointly-organized with the Ministry of Education when India was Chair for the G20 Summit 2023, noting the nation’s milestone progress in overtaking the United Kingdom as the third largest global producer of research publications, behind China and the U.S.

In 2021, UK Research and Research Innovation opens in new tab/window (UKRI) India commissioned Elsevier to conduct a data-based assessment on the impact of the research projects it has funded in collaboration with India. The report – UK-India: Partnerships for Growth with Research and Innovation opens in new tab/window – analyses bilateral research and innovation projects co-funded by India and UKRI and provides evidence of scholarly, economic and societal impact.

South Asia: Challenges and benefits of research collaboration in a diverse region is a 2019 joint report opens in new tab/window by Elsevier with World Bank opens in new tab/window analysing the impact of scientific collaboration, along with opportunities and gaps, across South Asian and comparator nations.

Globalization has quickly created a network of collaborations between countries across the globe, particularly within the Asia Pacific region. The data shows a significant emergence of research-intensive Asian nations with a focus on India.

India's Research Landscape: Output, Collaboration & Comparative Performance — Bibliometric Studies by Elsevier — Elsevier produced a data-based analytical report for India’s Department of Science and Technology opens in new tab/window (DST) in 2016 to benchmark India’s research performance against other research-intensive comparator nations.

Making connections

First made available to the India research community, our exclusive “Researcher Discovery” feature on Elsevier’s Scopus platform enables researchers to effectively identify academic rising stars for potential collaborations and partnerships, key individuals as potential mentors and to expand their academic network as well as potential partners for grant applications.

Elsevier’s first University Grants Commission opens in new tab/window (UGC) Dialogue in 2019 on Promotion of Good Publication Practices facilitated open discussions and consensus-building amongst regulators, funders, researchers, publishers, experts and indexing bodies on ways to advance and enable India’s growing academic publishing landscape.

We conduct webinars for researchers to better leverage our digital analytics platform, SciVal, to effectively identify peers from similar or complementary disciplines for potential collaboration.

We conduct webinars for institutions to maximize the potential of our research information management system, Pure, for the development of evidence-based strategies to increase funding, driving more international collaborations and gaining greater research visibility.