Quality health research and publication is the need of the hour to generate evidence-based medical practicefor effective patient care, medical education, and health expenditure. Ray et al. have reported that over aperiod of 10 years from 2005 to 2014, the research output from India averaged to only 14.5 publicationsper institution per year. Meanwhile, in the United States, the total number of publications itself is 3.3 timesthat of India. With over 579 medical institutions/hospitals and over 22,000 postgraduate medical thesis,India should be leading the world in medical research.
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