Abstract
History of humanity especially post renaissance era depicts the contribution of research and its output In
terms of publication, patents and technology transfer paving the way for the societal prosperity. Scientific
writing and research publication are fundamental components indicative of academic excellence and
supposedly committed to the Research and Development (R&D) funding. Thus the budget allocation and
expenditure thereof towards R&D is considered to be a vital parameter for the advancement in science and
technology and also for social and economic well being. In view of the tall aspirations of society and
government at large it becomes indispensable to investigate whether the scholastic output is going hand in
hand with the R & D budget spillover or otherwise. We present in this communication a systematic
clustering approach based on K-means algorithm to reveal the impact of R&D expenditure on the extent of
research publications. Two independent sources of data, Research and development expenditure i.e.
percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Scientific and technical journal articles, are brought
together in this comprehensive study. From an empirical perspective, present study found that there exist a
positive linear correlation between R & D Expenditure and number of research publication.
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