Authors' response to Shukla and Dixit

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We thank Drs. Shukla and Dixit for their comments [1] on our recent editorial [2]. They list several factors that impede research on part of faculty members in medical institutions, including rules that do not permit them to guide research students for several years after joining as faculty, lack of resources for doing research, limited availability of time because of heavy clinical workload, access to journals, etc. We agree with them that, to improve the research output of faculty members in medical institutions around India, these issues too need attention, though our editorial, since it was written on behalf of the Indian Association of Medical Journal Editors, focused mainly on issues related to the publication process. …