Table 1 Distribution of the types of health research and papers from India in 2002 included in PubMed
Type of research | No. (%)* of papers | Type of paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  | Original research No. [%]†(%)‡ | Review / Viewpoint No. [%]†(%)‡ |
Basic science | 2358 (48.4) | 2227 [49.6] (94.4) | 131 [34.3] (5.6) |
   Pure | 525 (10.8) | 518 [11.5] (98.7) | 7 [1.8] (1.3) |
   Applied | 1833 (37.6) | 1709 [38.0] (93.2) | 124 [32.5] (6.8) |
Clinical science | 2296 (47.1) | 2119 [47.2] (92.3) | 177 [46.3] (7.7) |
   Patient series / management | 1805 (37.0) | 1639 [36.5] (90.8) | 166 [43.5] (9.2) |
   Laboratory | 283 (5.8) | 277 [6.2] (97.9) | 6 [1.6] (2.1) |
   Clinical trials | 155 (3.2) | 153 [3.4] (98.7) | 2 [0.5] (1.3) |
   Clinical epidemiology | 53 (1.1) | 50 [1.1] (94.3) | 3 [0.8] (5.7) |
Public health | 216 (4.4) | 148 [3.3] (68.5) | 68 [17.8] (31.5) |
   Epidemiology | 85 (1.7) | 72 [1.6] (84.7) | 13 [3.4] (15.3) |
   Social / environmental | 38 (0.8) | 31 [0.7] (81.6) | 7 [1.8] (18.4) |
   Health systems / policy | 93 (1.9) | 45 [1.0] (48.4) | 48 [12.6] (51.6) |
Other§ | 6 (0.1) | 0 [0.0] (0.0) | 6 [1.6] (100.0) |
Total | 4876 (100) | 4494 [100.0] (92.2) | 382 [100.0] (7.8) |