SDG related research

Indian Research Publications on Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. They are included in a UN Resolution called the 2030 Agenda or what is colloquially known as Agenda 2030.
The 17 SDGs are:

**Source - https://sdgs.un.org

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    In this context, India's research output during 2010 - 2019 has been analysed to find out what amount of research output is related to the Sustainable Development Goals. A publication is said to be about a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), if it is related to the concerned SDG in one way or other. The Dimensions database provides an SDG related tagging of research publications through it's own algorithmic approaches (apparently based on Machine Learning). It is observed that the three SDGs (7-Affordable & Clean Energy, 3-Good Health & Well Being and 13-Climate Action) have got significant attention of Indian Research community, as measured by Indian Research publications. For the SDG 7-Affordable & Clean Energy, the number of research publications have increased from 1313 in 2010 to 9612 in 2019 (with a CAGR value of 22%). For SDG 3-Good Health & Well-Being, research publications have increased from 1408 in 2010 to 5582 in 2019 with a CAGR of 14.8%. Similarly, the SDG 13-Climate Action has also seen a growth 336 publications in 2010 to 2513 publications in 2019 (with a CAGR value of 22.3%). There is also some research on other SDGs like 2-Zero Hunger, 4-Quality Education and 11-Sustainable cities and communities, though the volume in these cases are much lesser. The figure below shows the year-wise research output from India, on the 17 different SDGs. A tree map of the total research output on different SDGs during the period 2010-2019 is also shown thereafter.

    Year-wise SDGs

    Treemap SDGs

    Subject area-wise composition of Research Output on SDGs

    Researchers from different areas have contributed to different SDGs. For the SDG 7-Affordable & Clean Energy, about 45% of the publications to subject area Engineering, followed by 16% from Chemical Sciences, 12% from Technology, and 11% from Information and Computing Science. For SDG 3-Good Health & Well Being, about 78% publications are in the area of Medical and Health Sciences, followed by 6% in Biological Sciences and 5% in Information & Computing Science. Similarly for SDG 13-Climate Actions, about 47% of the publications are from Engineering, 12% from Earth Sciences and 10% from Chemical Sciences. The table below shows contribution from different subject areas to the research output on SDGs.

    Subjects SDG 1 SDG 2 SDG 3 SDG 4 SDG 5 SDG 6 SDG 7 SDG 8 SDG 9 SDG 10 SDG 11 SDG 12 SDG 13 SDG 14 SDG 15 SDG 16 SDG 17
    09 Engineering 15 123 872 80 2 712 26284 119 81 59 1025 639 6723 82 59 28 3
    11 Medical and Health Sciences 220 1826 28135 809 67 461 383 295 9 402 517 47 164 10 2 772 21
    03 Chemical Sciences 0 46 410 10 0 145 9425 7 4 3 96 159 1395 45 3 24 0
    08 Information and Computing Sciences 17 103 1872 536 3 39 6596 376 105 91 540 162 619 21 20 389 1
    10 Technology 2 34 438 16 0 16 7109 43 22 7 131 12 101 8 1 23 0
    06 Biological Sciences 12 995 2259 27 0 245 1321 67 0 10 85 260 1008 238 550 25 1
    14 Economics 330 143 577 57 12 102 1205 1031 59 556 188 123 538 8 27 195 31
    16 Studies in Human Society 202 98 369 363 182 121 269 437 26 454 620 35 340 11 36 1080 57
    01 Mathematical Sciences 3 6 137 21 2 16 2318 25 6 367 48 41 408 1 3 24 0
    05 Environmental Sciences 12 429 100 1 0 282 300 41 3 8 248 139 789 179 819 26 3
    04 Earth Sciences 2 26 18 1 0 402 232 3 1 1 99 5 1687 89 17 2 0
    07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences 16 791 242 3 0 88 188 62 0 3 9 134 302 53 187 10 0
    13 Education 5 13 74 1874 12 5 6 16 3 23 12 1 5 0 0 24 3
    15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services 25 10 41 50 17 6 87 623 31 60 86 662 57 0 1 189 12
    02 Physical Sciences 0 5 49 6 0 4 1716 1 1 33 12 3 37 1 1 6 0
    17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences 4 44 436 355 14 8 90 121 0 21 45 9 20 1 1 202 0
    18 Law and Legal Studies 5 2 69 23 13 6 17 29 0 23 7 4 13 6 6 561 3
    20 Language, Communication and Culture 9 6 31 143 45 2 12 17 0 65 13 13 5 0 1 177 0
    12 Built Environment and Design 0 0 2 2 0 1 202 2 0 0 196 2 38 0 0 0 0
    21 History and Archaeology 5 5 36 28 5 3 14 16 0 41 14 1 15 0 1 196 5
    22 Philosophy and Religious Studies 4 1 5 28 4 2 5 1 0 25 5 0 2 0 4 67 0
    19 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing 0 0 2 4 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 8 0

    Note: The above analysis/outputs are generated by the use of data obtained from Dimensions and Altmetric (a part of Digital Science).