Publications in Organic Chemistry from Indian Universities and Laboratories in 2011-2013: Analysis and some Suggestions

An attempt to analyse the pattern of organic chemistry papers in national and international journals was made in this article. We have reviewed the papers published in various subject areas and presented our findings. There is a growing interest in publishing papers in heterocyclic compared to other areas. There is a need for publishing more review papers in fundamental areas in the frontier research segment particularly to benefit the university teachers. We also have analysed the trend of the researchers and their papers. It was found that there is more enthusiasm to publish papers in higher ranking international journals than the premier journals like IJC(B). The neglect of national journals would hurt the research in the country. Effective uses of new synthetic methodologies involving metal catalysed reactions are found in international publications. However, development of new methodologies, new reagents and serious structure-activity relationship in medicinal chemistry were not visible in the research papers.