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Table 2 Top ten productive countries on carbapenem publications (1986–2015)

From: Bibliometric analysis of global scientific research on carbapenem resistance (1986–2015)

SCR

Country

Articles N = 2469 (%)

Articles/10 million inhabitants (rank)

Articles/trillion GDP (rank)

Total citation (rank)

Citations/article (rank)

h-index (rank)

Number of collaborating countries

Number (%)a of documents with international authors

1st

United States

437 (16.70)

13.70 (7)

25.09 (9)

14,667 (1)

33.56 (4)

62 (1)

39

145 (33.18)

2nd

China

257 (9.82)

1.88 (9)

24.83 (10)

2069 (9)

8.05 (10)

23 (7)

16

29 (11.28)

3rd

France

217 (8.29)

32.77 (2)

76.71 (3)

7835(3)

36.11 (3)

45 (3)

55

117 (53.92)

4th

United Kingdom

151 (5.77)

23.39 (5)

50.52 (8)

8909 (2)

59.00 (1)

49 (2)

57

82 (54.92)

5th

Italy

146 (5.58)

24.02 (4)

68.19 (5)

3900 (4)

26.71 (7)

31 (5)

43

44 (30.14)

6th

India

137 (5.24)

1.06 (10)

66.86 (6)

2407 (8)

17.57 (8)

19 (10)

21

16 (11.68)

7th

Brazil

125 (4.78)

6.07 (8)

51.72 (7)

1781 (10)

14.25 (9)

21 (9)

10

22 (17.60)

8th

Spain

118 (4.51)

25.39 (3)

85.45 (2)

3192 (6)

27.05 (6)

31 (5)

36

24 (20.34)

9th

Greece

104 (3.97)

95.68 (1)

441.43 (1)

3778 (5)

36.33 (2)

37 (4)

39

40 (38.46)

10th

South Korea

99 (3.78)

19.55 (6)

70.21 (4)

2896 (7)

29.25 (5)

23 (7)

15

12 (12.12)

  1. SCR standard competition ranking, GDP gross domestic product
  2. aPercentage of documents with international authors was calculated by dividing number of documents with international authors by the total number of documents retrieved for the country assigned