Comparative Evaluation of Research Output: AIIMS Vs PGIMER

Health care is one of the field in which constant research is going on. Research has been amplified in the last decade. The main objective of this paper is to compare the quality of research output of the two high profile health care institutions of North India--All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. The study has been conducted using Scopus citation database. In this paper, research output of these institutions during 1999-2008 has been compared in the form of growth of publication, rank of various subjects, further citations of these publications has been observed to check the quality of the research using three year window in addition to the h-index as well as the International collaboration of publications (ICP). Except difference in total number of publications, growth, rank, quality and ICP all are almost the same. Difference in number of publications can be due to the limitations of the study and duration of establishment of these institutes. Earlier, due to paucity of means to gauge the quality of the research, it was not possible to observe the quality of the research. Hence, an effort has been made to create awareness amongst the medical fraternity about the quality check of their research, which is now possible through these citation databases.