Table 1.

The top 10 countries that published articles on postoperative ileus research

Rank	Country	Number of articles	Number of citations	Citations per article
1	China	201	1486	7.39
2	United States	177	3360	18.98
3	Japan	78	887	11.37
4	Germany	65	1236	19.02
5	South Korea	44	545	12.39
6	England	42	990	23.57
7	Netherlands	41	1356	33.07
8	Belgium	31	1257	40.55
9	Australia	26	377	14.5
10	Italy	23	427	18.57