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Ranking of medical institutes of India for quality and quantity: a case study

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The paper highlights the role of medical education and research in the betterment of human lives and analyses the research output of top 50 medical institutes in India during 2003–2012. It ranks such institutes on the basis of their research publications using Scopus database and indicates which medical institute has contributed maximum publications and which has contributed minimum publications. The paper points out the qualitative as well as the quantitative ranking of top 50 medical institutes in India using total production, citation and h-Index etc.

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  1. Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India

    Har Kaur

  2. Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

    Preeti Mahajan

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Kaur, H., Mahajan, P. Ranking of medical institutes of India for quality and quantity: a case study. Scientometrics 105, 1129–1139 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1720-5

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