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Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,Chandigarh


Institution type - Education
Year of Establishment - 1962

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) is a public medical university in Chandigarh, India. It is an 'Institute of National Importance', INI. It has educational, medical research, and training facilities for its students including all specialties, super specialties and sub specialties. It is the leading tertiary care hospital of the region and caters to patients from all over Punjab, J&K, Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand and Haryana. Apart from the clinical services, PGI also provides training in almost all disciplines of Medicine including post graduate and post doctoral degrees, diploma and fellowships. There are more than 50 such training courses in the institute. Since it is a post graduate institute, it does not have facilities for undergraduate MBBS courses. It is ranked 2nd among medical universities in India in 2020 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework.
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Key Indicators (2010-2019)

Total Research Papers 13712
Total Citations 142646
Citations per paper 10.40
h-index 108
g-index 217
ICP proportion 10.85%
Male / Female 1st author
  • Male:  73.82%
  • Female:  26.18%
Open Access availability 50.49%
Altmetric Attention
  • Twitter Coverage:  26.19 %
  • Facebook Coverage:  7.85 %
  • Mendeley Coverage:  36.57 %

Research Output and Citations






Authorship and Collaboration



Research Grants (Domestic)


Major Indian Funding Agencies Thousand $

Gender Distribution


Open Access Availability


Social Media Visibility

Platform-wise values for 2010-2019 period

  • Twitter coverage : 26.19 %
  • Facebook coverage : 7.85 %
  • Mendeley coverage : 36.57 %
  • Twitter average mentions per paper : 10.00
  • Facebook average mentions per paper : 2.54
  • Mendeley average mentions per paper : 441.71

Research Output related to SDGs


Research Portfolio

x-index :  92
x(g)-index :  189

The computation of x -index and x(g) -index is as per the idea proposed in Lathabai, Nandy & Singh (2021).


External Data (Year - 2021)

ARWU rank : NA
THE rank : NA
QS rank : NA
Leiden rank : 16
NIRF rank (Overall): NA

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