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Table 4 Distribution of health research output from various types of institutions in India

From: The lack of public health research output from 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

  1. *Institutions affiliated with the Indian Council of Medical Research [15]
  2. †Institutions affiliated with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [16]
  3. ‡Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, and other technical institutions
  4. §Percentage high due to one paper in a very high impact factor journal
  5. 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