The lack of public health research output from India

BMC Public Health

Table 6 Comparison of health research output from India and Australia in 2002

	India			Australia			Australia-India ratio
	Total	Per million population*	Per billion GDP-PPP†	Total‡	Per million population*	Per billion GDP-PPP†	Per million population	Per billion GDP-PPP
No. of health papers	4876	4.72	1.66	7620	392.78	15.49	83.2	9.3
Impact factor for health papers	5842	5.65	1.99	19231	991.27	39.10	175.3	19.6
No. of basic science papers	2358	2.28	0.80	2888	148.87	5.87	65.2	7.3
Impact factor for basic science papers	3944	3.82	1.35	10598	546.31	21.55	143.1	16.0
No. of clinical science papers	2296	2.22	0.78	3816	196.70	7.76	88.5	9.9
Impact factor for clinical papers	1698	1.64	0.58	7624	393.01	15.50	239.1	26.7
No. of public health papers	216	0.21	0.07	916	47.22	1.86	225.9	25.3
Impact factor for public health papers	193	0.19	0.07	1008	51.95	2.05	277.6	31.0

*Based on 1033.4 million population for India and 19.4 million for Australia in 2001 [1]
†Based on the gross domestic product adjusted for purchasing power parity (GDP-PPP) of US$ 2930 billion for India and US$ 491.8 billion for Australia in 2001 [1]
‡Based on multiplying the number of papers and their total impact factor for the April-June 2002 quarter by four to obtain the estimate for the year 2002
The total of the number and impact factor for basic, clinical and public health papers does not add up to that for the health papers, as 6 "other" papers (with total impact factor 6.012) that could not be classified as basic, clinical or public health (Table 1) are not included in this table

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