  Scholarly articles are now increasingly being mentioned and discussed in
social media platforms, sometimes even as pre- or post-print version uploads.
Measures of social media mentions and coverage are now emerging as an
alternative indicator of impact of scholarly articles. 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. It also analyses the discipline-wise variations in coverage and
altmetric attention for Indian research output, including a comparison with the
world average. Results obtained show interesting patterns. 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
terms of discipline-wise variation, medical sciences and biological sciences
have relatively higher coverage across different platforms compared to
disciplines like information science and engineering.
