India is a huge part of the global society, has long and distinguished history as country, possess capability and vital resource to influence, mark presence on the emerging universe of knowledge. India is contributing good amount of knowledge but there is no tool for evaluation and measurement of its knowledge. At international level few tools/databases are available but coverage of Indian knowledge contents particularly published in local national journals are negligible. Therefore, these tools/databases are not adequate to evaluate/ analyze India's knowledge contents. To resolve similar limitation, few of the countries, like China, Korea, Japan etc. have already brought out their own citation indexes. Mr. Prakash Chand, Ex Scientist NISCAIR, CSIR and M/s DIVA ENTERPRISES Pvt. Ltd. with a view to address this long felt need have developed and brought out multidisciplinary Indian Citation Index (ICI) by scanning ~1000 journals of Indian origin. The ICI database is intended to provide objective content and powerful tools that let you search, track, measure and collaborate in the fields of sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to turn raw data/information into the powerful knowledge you need.

Indian R&D literature across all disciplines i.e. science, technology, medicine, agriculture, social science and humanities get published in 1000 plus journals/ serials or in other documents emanating from India

• To ensure access to articles published in local Indian R&D literature at national & global level
• To reflect and represent true picture of locally published Indian scholarly contribution at national and global level
• To have an authentic tool/ground for effective, & rigorous evaluation of Indian scholarly works

Initially for two years considering general time lag factor in Indian publications, ICI has decided to provide an opportunity to such publishers to bring their publications as per defined schedule. ICI is indexing following types of material appearing in local national journals.

• Research articles
• Review articles
• Short or brief communications
• Editorial and letter to editor
• Research notes
• Case studies
• Case reports
• Opinion papers
• Observations

Following types of material is NOT covered in ICI

ICI provide an opportunity for publishers initially for two years to bring their publications on time and accordingly publisher may request ICI to get their publication indexed. ICI includes following types of scholarly material/documents: