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Madras Medical College

In research, Madras Medical College stands highest in Surgery (#1,408 of 1,532 worldwide), Life Sciences (#6,103 of 6,403 worldwide) and Medicine (#8,341 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery and Neurology (Surgery is 6.2× its share of world research).

World rank, 2022-now
#18,091
of 22,385 · #34,567 all time
Rank in India
#1,294
of 1,562
Research works
3k
▲ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
5.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.50×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
66%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%

What is Madras Medical College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
SurgerySubfield #1,408 of 1,532 1.0%117 #3139
Life SciencesDomain #6,103 of 6,403 1.2%101 #10887
MedicineField #8,341 of 8,541 1.6%560 #14400
Health SciencesDomain #9,750 of 9,902 1.8%603 #16576

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Madras Medical College sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Surgery#3,139 #1,408
  2. Life Sciences#10,887 #6,103
  3. Medicine#14,400 #8,341
  4. Health Sciences#16,576 #9,750
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Madras Medical College work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Madras Medical College is in Health Sciences, 12% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (70%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Health Professions (3%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 697 fractional works · 75.0% of its workMedicine: 649 fractional works · 69.8% of its workSurgery: 134 fractional works · 14.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 58 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEpidemiology: 49 fractional works · 5.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 35 fractional works · 3.7% of its workNeurology: 32 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 27 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 27 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOncology: 25 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 22 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 21 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRheumatology: 20 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 17 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 15 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHematology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNephrology: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGastroenterology: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHepatology: 10 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransplantation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFamily Practice: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 29 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOral Surgery: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 114 fractional works · 12.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 53 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 25 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGenetics: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeuroscience: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workParasitology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 63 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 55 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPsychology: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMadras MedicalCollege930fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine64969.8%
    2. Health Professions293.1%
    3. Nursing101.1%
    4. Dentistry50.5%
    5. Veterinary40.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology535.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences222.3%
    3. Neuroscience151.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology131.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics121.3%
    1. Engineering161.8%
    2. Computer Science101.1%
    3. Environmental Science101.0%
    4. Materials Science91.0%
    5. Chemistry90.9%
    6. Mathematics30.4%
    7. Energy20.3%
    8. Physics and Astronomy20.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    1. Psychology202.2%
    2. Social Sciences141.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance80.8%
    4. Arts and Humanities70.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting40.5%
    6. Decision Sciences20.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Madras Medical College specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 6.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 134.2 works6.2×
  2. NeurologySubfield · 31.9 works6.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 22 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.06× its world share, 53 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.40× its world share, 13 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.97× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.66× its world share, 12 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.59× its world share, 9 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.21× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 9 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.11× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.20× its world share, 29 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.63× its world share, 649 worksMedicineNursing: 2.22× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.42× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 7 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.66×12 works
  2. Medicine3.63×649 works
  3. Veterinary3.42×4 works
  4. Nursing2.22×10 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.40×13 works
  6. Health Professions1.20×29 works
  7. Dentistry1.11×5 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.06×53 works
  9. Neuroscience0.97×15 works
  10. Psychology0.71×20 works
  11. Chemistry0.59×9 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×22 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.39×8 works
  14. Mathematics0.31×3 works
  15. Energy0.28×2 works
  16. Materials Science0.28×9 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.27×7 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.24×1 works
  19. Environmental Science0.21×10 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.17×2 works
  21. Computer Science0.14×10 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×4 works
  23. Engineering0.12×16 works
  24. Social Sciences0.12×14 works
  25. Physics and Astronomy0.09×2 works
  26. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Madras Medical College?

Ranked on the quality score, Dakshinamoorthy MuthuKumar, Gopalakrishnan Natarajan and Mangalabharathi Sundaram lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Madras Medical College.

  1. 1 Dakshinamoorthy MuthuKumar India · #1,678,346 worldwide 832 citations · 67 works
  2. 2 Gopalakrishnan Natarajan India · #2,122,052 worldwide 987 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Mangalabharathi Sundaram India · #2,623,835 worldwide 963 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Alexander Porter India · #2,749,060 worldwide 345 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Geetha A. Natarajan India · #2,851,613 worldwide 2.1k citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Lakshmi Ranganathan India · #3,648,940 worldwide 1.2k citations · 45 works
  7. 7 Sajid Hussain India · #3,747,706 worldwide 1.4k citations · 26 works
  8. 8 R Alagappan India · #4,040,088 worldwide 382 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Servarayan Murugesan Chandramohan India · #4,156,484 worldwide 381 citations · 23 works
  10. 10 Ramdas Alagesan India · #4,433,963 worldwide 1.1k citations · 57 works
All ranked researchers at Madras Medical College

What are the most cited papers from Madras Medical College?

The most cited paper from Madras Medical College is "Low birth weight: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data" (Clare Cutland, Eve Lackritz, Tamala Mallett Moore et al., 2017), with 474 citations. Next come "Convalescent plasma transfusion for the treatment of COVID‐19: Systematic review" (368) and "Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease in adults, 1990–2023, and its attributable risk factors: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" (366).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Low birth weight: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data Clare Cutland, Eve Lackritz, Tamala Mallett Moore et al. · Vaccine Open access 14 Nov 2017 474
2 Convalescent plasma transfusion for the treatment of COVID‐19: Systematic review Karthick Rajendran, Krishnasamy Narayanasamy, Jayanthi Rangarajan et al. · Journal of Medical Virology ReviewOpen access May 2020 368
3 Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease in adults, 1990–2023, and its attributable risk factors: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 Patrick B Mark et al. · The Lancet Open access597 authors Nov 2025 366
4 Antidiabetic effect of a leaf extract from Gymnema sylvestre in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients K. Baskaran, B.Kizar Ahamath, K. Radha Shanmugasundaram et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Oct 1990 335
5 Effect of probiotic supplementation on growth, nitrogen utilisation and serum cholesterol in broilers Bollineni Sai Mohan, Ramanathan Kadirvel, Amirthalingam Natarajan et al. · British Poultry Science May 1996 316
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Madras Medical College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Complications, Surgical Management, Inflammation, Prognostic Factors and Chemotherapy.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology134▲ 3.6×116 topics
  2. Treatment61▲ 5.4×44 topics
  3. Diagnosis52▲ 6.0×37 topics
  4. Inflammation51▲ 2.6×67 topics
  5. Complications36▲ 7.7×16 topics
  6. Quality of Life35▲ 2.6×43 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress33▲ 2.1×45 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease32▲ 3.0×32 topics
  9. Surgical Management30▲ 8.0×19 topics
  10. Chemotherapy28▲ 4.2×22 topics
  11. Risk Factors26▲ 2.6×28 topics
  12. Management26▲ 3.5×28 topics
  13. Prognostic Factors24▲ 6.1×14 topics
  14. Metabolic Syndrome23▲ 3.1×22 topics
  15. Immunotherapy23▲ 3.4×18 topics
  16. Diabetes20▲ 4.4×14 topics
  17. Guidelines20▲ 4.5×13 topics
  18. Clinical Practice Guidelines19▲ 3.8×14 topics
  19. Immune Response19▲ 3.6×18 topics
  20. Neurological Disorders19▲ 3.6×18 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations18▲ 4.5×21 topics
  22. Insulin Resistance18▲ 4.3×9 topics
  23. Mortality17▲ 3.1×12 topics
  24. Vaccine16▲ 4.5×11 topics
  25. Pathogenesis16▲ 3.5×20 topics
  26. Children15▲ 7.1×7 topics
  27. Radiotherapy15▲ 4.1×13 topics
  28. Prognosis15▲ 4.8×9 topics
  29. Surgery14▲ 4.4×10 topics
  30. Imaging13▲ 6.0×6 topics
  31. Pathophysiology13▲ 4.8×9 topics
  32. Nutritional Support13▲ 15×3 topics
  33. Chronic Kidney Disease13▲ 5.4×9 topics
  34. Genetic Factors12▲ 20×3 topics
  35. Liver Transplantation12▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Autoantibodies12▲ 5.6×8 topics
  37. Prenatal Diagnosis11▲ 8.1×7 topics
  38. Review11▲ 9.9×2 topics
  39. Adults11▲ 20×2 topics
  40. Intussusception10▲ 33×1 topic

Which research topics does Madras Medical College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments, Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments.

  1. 1 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 10 works
  2. 2 Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment Surgery 10 works
  3. 3 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 8 works
  4. 4 Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments Surgery 6 works
  5. 5 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 5 works
  6. 6 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 5 works
  7. 7 Reconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques Surgery 5 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 5 works
  9. 9 Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment Gastroenterology 5 works
  10. 10 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 5 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available65.5%not open34.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.4%domestic only93.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Madras Medical College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Madras Medical College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0039% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Madras Medical College0.0041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Madras Medical College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Madras Medical College2.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 5.8% in 1991.

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