Collaboration is the most importance factor to enhance cross-domain experience, said Indian researchers. According to a survey by Knimbus, a global search and collaboration platform, about six in ten researchers felt that collaboration was the key for them to up their experience across different domains.
According to the survey by the platform that connects creators and users of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) knowledge, 87 per cent of researchers cited access to current and trusted information as the most critical factor for success in their field. It further said that about five out of ten researchers use e-resources such as e-journals, conference paper and blogs, daily. The research also pointed that e-journal content was considered most credible by followed by others like e-books, conference papers and web content. Blogs were the least preferred owing to questionable authenticity, with only 2 out of 10 researchers preferring to access them.
The survey said that the challenges faced by Indian researchers included the high degree of effort and time required to find relevant information, inability to collaborate globally with other peers and experts, access to funding for R&D activities and low interaction between academics and business.
Rahul Agarwalla, CEO & Founder, Knimbus said, "The Knimbus discovery and collaboration platform addresses a majority of the challenges thrown up in the survey.In fact, some of the insights gathered through this survey have resulted in features like research connections and researcher profiles to make collaboration easier in the new version of our platform."
He added that the Knimbus platform provides the requisite infrastructure to boost India’s research output and address the issue of India having only 2.2 per cent of the global population of researchers despite our large population.
The Knimbus survey was conducted with over 600 researchers in India to understand research behavior, challenges, preferred sources and the relevance of collaboration in research.
