Scholarly articles are now increasingly being mentioned and discussed in social media platforms,somtimes even as pre or post print version uploades. This article aims to explore how much scholarly research output from India is covered in different social media platforms and how similar or different it is from the world average.
Only 28.5% of the total research output from India is covered in social media platforms which is about 18% less than the world average. ResearchGate and Mendeley are the most popular social media platforms in India for scholarly article coverage. In term of discipline wise variations medical sciences and biological sciences have relatively higher coverage across different platforms compared to disciplines like information science and engineering.
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