Table 4.
Distribution of health research output from various types of institutions in India
Type of institution | All health | Basic science | Clinical science | Public health | ||||
No. (%) of health papers | % quality-adjusted output for health papers | No. (%) of basic science papers | % quality-adjusted output for basic science papers | No. (%) of clinical science papers | % quality-adjusted output for clinical science papers | No. (%) of public health papers | % quality-adjusted output for public health papers | |
Medical college / Hospital | 2571 (52.7) | 33.4 | 407 (17.3) | 11.9 | 2044 (89.0) | 82.1 | 119 (55.1) | 45.9 |
Indian Council of Medical Research* | 159 (3.3) | 4.0 | 52 (2.2) | 2.3 | 78 (3.4) | 6.7 | 28 (13.0) | 13.1 |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research† | 387 (7.9) | 13.3 | 361 (15.3) | 18.9 | 21 (0.9) | 1.7 | 5 (2.3) | 0.6 |
Technical institutions‡ | 281 (5.8) | 12.2 | 268 (11.4) | 17.7 | 7 (0.3) | 0.6 | 5 (2.3) | 2.3 |
Paramedical college/institution | 164 (3.4) | 2.9 | 154 (6.5) | 4.1 | 8 (0.3) | 0.4 | 2 (0.9) | 0.9 |
University department | 813 (16.7) | 16.4 | 743 (31.5) | 23.0 | 53 (2.3) | 2.5 | 16 (7.4) | 4.7 |
NGO / Foundation / Society | 69 (1.4) | 1.2 | 12 (0.5) | 0.6 | 33 (1.4) | 1.6 | 22 (10.2) | 8.0 |
Government department | 4 (0.1) | 0.6 | 0 (0.0) | 0.0 | 0 (0.0) | 0.0 | 4 (1.9) | 17.9§ |
Industry | 31 (0.6) | 0.6 | 28 (1.2) | 0.9 | 3 (0.1) | 0.1 | 0 (0.0) | 0.0 |
Other | 397 (8.1) | 15.4 | 333 (14.1) | 20.6 | 49 (2.1) | 4.3 | 15 (5.9) | 6.7 |
Total | 4876 (100) | 100 | 2358 (100) | 100 | 2296 (100) | 100 | 216 (100) | 100 |
*Institutions affiliated with the Indian Council of Medical Research [15]
†Institutions affiliated with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [16]
‡Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, and other technical institutions
§Percentage high due to one paper in a very high impact factor journal
The total of basic, clinical and public health papers does not add up to the "all health" papers in all rows, as 6 "other" papers that could not be classified as basic, clinical or public health (Table 1) are not included in this table