Who uses research funded from India

Where the papers funded from India are cited inside the 400 tracked journals: by country, by institution and by funder, and whose research the papers from India cite. A citation link is one paper citing another, both in the tracked journals (from OpenAlex references). The source is the country of the cited paper's funders (OpenAlex funders and their countries); the users are the countries and institutions of the citing paper's authors. A link counts once for each funding country of the cited paper and each country (or institution) of the citing paper, so the rows overlap. Papers without funding information, about half of them, have no source. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited the 1,656 papers funded from India 8,905 times (counting each citing country), #21 of 128 funding countries.
17% of the links come from papers with authors in India; abroad, the largest users are China (4,054), the United States (947) and the United Kingdom (745).
The institutions citing this research most are Hong Kong Polytechnic University (145), Chinese Academy of Sciences (136) and Indian Institute of Technology Indore (127).
The India funders behind the most-cited links are Ministry of Education, India (2,767), Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (1,243) and Science and Engineering Research Board (992).
In turn, papers with authors in India draw most on research funded from China (13,265), the United States (3,738) and the United Kingdom (2,162).

Citing countries#

Countries whose papers cite India-funded research, since 2023
#	Citing country	Links	Share
1	China	4,054	46%
2	India	1,557	17%
3	United States	947	11%
4	United Kingdom	745	8%
5	Australia	472	5%
6	France	321	4%
7	Hong Kong	295	3%
8	Italy	273	3%
9	South Korea	266	3%
10	Canada	265	3%
11	Spain	257	3%
12	Germany	243	3%
13	Singapore	223	3%
14	Turkey	219	2%
15	Iran	203	2%
16	Taiwan	170	2%
17	Saudi Arabia	151	2%
18	Malaysia	138	2%
19	Japan	135	2%
20	Netherlands	132	1%
21	Macao	126	1%
22	United Arab Emirates	120	1%
23	Brazil	109	1%
24	Poland	104	1%
25	Sweden	100	1%
26	Vietnam	93	1%
27	Pakistan	89	1%
28	Finland	79	1%
29	Czechia	72	1%
30	Egypt	72	1%

Citing institutions#

Institutions whose papers cite India-funded research most, since 2023
#	Institution	Country	Links
1	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	145
2	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	136
3	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	India	127
4	Sun Yat-sen University	China	108
5	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	100
6	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India	97
7	Sichuan University	China	97
8	Dalian University of Technology	China	96
9	Tsinghua University	China	91
10	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	90
11	Zhejiang University	China	89
12	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	87
13	National University of Singapore	Singapore	85
14	Southeast University	China	85
15	Wuhan University	China	85

Funders#

India funders whose papers are cited most, since 2023
#	Funder	Links
1	Ministry of Education, India	2,767
2	Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India	1,243
3	Science and Engineering Research Board	992
4	University Grants Commission	891
5	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India	608
6	Indian Council of Social Science Research	472
7	Ministry of Electronics and Information technology	305
8	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	179
9	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	172
10	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	155
11	Ministry of Earth Sciences	124
12	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	114
13	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	112
14	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	109
15	University of Delhi	106

What papers from India cite#

Research funded elsewhere that papers from India cite, since 2023
#	Funding country	Links
1	China	13,265
2	United States	3,738
3	United Kingdom	2,162
4	Spain	1,744
5	South Korea	1,617
6	Germany	1,167
7	Australia	1,151
8	Canada	1,067
9	Japan	772
10	Italy	762
11	Taiwan	713
12	France	628
13	Brazil	583
14	Hong Kong	582
15	Sweden	573

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Who uses research funded from India. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/supply-chain/india

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