<span style="color: #222222;">India has jumped from 7th to 3rd global ranking in scientific publications. This was informed by the Union Minister for Science &amp; Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh on Sunday after a review meeting with the senior official of Department of Science &amp; Technology in New Delhi.<br />” <br />” Lauding the consistent efforts of India's scientific fraternity, Dr Jitendra Singh gave all credit to an enabling milieu and freedom of working provided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<br />” <br />” He said, the very fact that such quantum leaps in India’s scientific pursuits are happening only in the last few years is a testimony to the push given by PM Modi both in terms of the ease of policy as well as his personal indulgence and prioritisation.<br />” <br />” Quoting the report of National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Science &amp; Engineering Indicators 2022 of the United States, the Minister said India’s scholarly output has also increased from 60,555 papers in 2010 to 1,49,213 papers in 2020.<br />” <br />” Dr Jitendra Singh also took pride that India now ranks 3rd in terms of number of PhDs in science and engineering.<br />” <br />” He was also apprised that the number of patents granted to Indian scientists at India Patent Office (IPO) during the last three years has also increased from 2511 in 2018-19 to 4003 in 2019-20 and 5629 in 2020-21.<br />” <br />” The National Science Foundation is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.<br />” <br />”Mr Singh added that India’s research performance in science and technology has improved significantly over the past few years which is visible through a large amount of scientific knowledge in terms of research publications, development of technologies and innovations contributing to overall development.</span>