Knowledge of national research trends and thrusts as well as R&D capability in solar photovoltaics has become all the more essential post launching of the National Solar Mission. The present study is perhaps the first attempt that analyzes the status of solar PV research in India encompassing...

This article reports a comparative analysis of the thrust in solar photovoltaic (PV) research during 1981-88 and 2001-08. Global solar PV literature in the later period recorded 4.5-fold increase over those in 1981-88. USA leads all the countries in terms of absolute number of publications as is...