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Table 4 Top 10 productive countries in number of probiotics in pediatrics publications

From: Assessing worldwide research activity on probiotics in pediatrics using Scopus database: 1994–2014

SCRa

Country

Articles N = 2817 (%)

Articles/10 million inhabitants (Rank)

Articles /trillion GDP (Rank)

Total citation (Rank)

Citations/article (Rank)

H-index (Rank)

Number of Collaborating countries

Number (%)b of documents with international authors

1st

USA

616 (22.36)

19.32 (9)

35.36 (10)

18665 (1)

30.30 (6)

69 (1)

61

154 (25.00)

2nd

Italy

265 (8.98)

43.2 (4)

123.77 (3)

8093 (3)

30.54 (5)

48 (2)

45

81 (30.57)

3rd

United Kingdom

167 (6.26)

25.89 (7)

55.87 (7)

7409 (4)

44.37 (3)

45 (4)

52

66 (39.52)

4th

Germany

155 (5.14)

19.16 (10)

40.07 (9)

4982 (6)

32.14 (4)

42 (5)

43

67 (43.23)

5th

Poland

141 (5.00)

37.11 (5)

258.72 (2)

3664 (7)

25.99 (9)

29 (9)

29

31 (21.99)

6th

Finland

136 (4.86)

248.90 (1)

499.63 (1)

11845 (2)

87.10 (1)

46 (3)

38

44 (32.35)

7th

France

132 (4.48)

19.94 (8)

46.66 (8)

3622 (8)

27.44 (8)

30 (7)

40

50 (37.88)

7th

Spain

132 (4.48)

28.45 (6)

95.58 (5)

2537 (10)

19.20 (10)

25 (10)

37

38 (28.88)

9th

Australia

119 (4.34)

50.66 (3)

81.79 (6)

3333 (9)

28.01 (7)

30 (7)

40

39 (32.77)

10th

Netherlands

108 (4.26)

64.09 (2)

122.82 (4)

5212 (5)

48.26 (2)

37 (6)

45

59 (54.63)

  1. Abbreviations: SCR standard competition ranking, USA United States of America, GDP gross domestic product
  2. aEqual countries have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
  3. bPercentage of documents with international authors from the total number of documents for each country