National versus international growth of medical research of India: a case study

Medical research is known to be the most important research as it is directly related to the well being of humans. The government of India is spending a large amount of money on medical research through ICMR by way of various research projects. In this paper the growth of the research output of top 50 medical institutes of India has been observed in terms of national as well as international collaboration. It has been found that the growth of national research output has doubled and the growth of research with international collaboration has grown four times during 2003–2012. The overall growth is found to be consistent. Top 20 favorite countries of medical professionals in India have also been found with number of publication published with each country during 2003–2012.