India dominates in rankings by international journal on paediatric critical care

CHANDIGARH: An

international

journal, Paediatric Critical Care Medicine ranked India first time amongst developed countries while doing randomised controlled trials on the researches the doctors have done across the globe. Previously only developed countries like US attained rankings in terms of the best researches.

In the recent issue of

pediatric critical care medicine

, a paper highlighting the research collaboration in paediatric critical care-

randomised controlled trial

(RCT) was published. In this paper, they looked into the publications in said specialisation from 1986-2018, wherein 415 RCTs from 377 centres in 43 countries done by 2,176 researchers were included.

Based on various parameters, the authors identified and ranked ten most influential countries wherein India is ranked 2nd among the published RCT, 3rd among the researchers and 9th amongst the number of times the RCTs were cited. “Significantly, when the team looked at ten most influential centres in terms of research in the world, AIIMS was at the 9th, PGIMER was ranked 10th,” said Dr Dr Arun Bansal, department of pediatrics, PGIMER.

Dr Sunit Singhi, former head of the pediatrics department in PGI is ranked number 1, Dr Jayshree ranked 2 and Dr Arun Bansal ranked number 10 in that list. Both are presently in the pediatrics department in the PGI.

While talking on this ranking, Dr Arun Bansal along with Dr Jayshree said that this is matter of pride for the institute and the country. We have always been passionate about research and been doing this since last many years.