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. 2004 Nov 25;4:55. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-4-55

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