Letters to the editor Why Indian postgraduate students are moving to foreign journals?

Indian medical student and Foreign journal

Abstract

Last 2-3 decades, we are observing that Indian authors specifically medical teachers and students have a craze to publish their works in foreign journals compare to Indian journals. As per the opinion of some reviewers, very few Indian journals had more than 6 issues in a year. Even those Indian journals have long waited or processing times with high rejection rates. Many postgraduate students want to work and settle in western countries. To make their profile stronger and to get placement, publication in high-impact factor journals gives more priority.  Medical colleges’ numbers and students’ enrolment capacity is increasing day by day in India but the numbers of journals specifically indexing journals with good impact factors are not as added. Due to the constant chopping and changing of indexing bodies required for promotion in medical college, puts a burden on the medical faculties. As of now, we conclude that in today’s scenario, foreign journals are helpful to fulfil the requirement for promotion or exams due to a lack of indexing Indian journals with high impact factors but after 1-2 decades maybe we have enough numbers of indexing Indian journals with good impact factor for publications.