Table 2.
Number of articles published in critical care medicine: 1995–2003
| World area | Year(s) | |||||||||
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 1995–2003 | |
| Western Europe | 720 (32.7) | 829 (35.2) | 801 (36.3) | 870 (38.6) | 1037 (41.3) | 1324 (43.2) | 1223 (43.1) | 1125 (40.2) | 1147 (41.7) | 9076 (39.5) |
| USA | 982 (44.6) | 978 (41.5) | 853 (38.6) | 829 (36.8) | 904 (36.0) | 1088 (35.5) | 992 (35.0) | 972 (34.8) | 956 (34.8) | 8554 (37.2) |
| Asia (excluding Japan) | 114 (5.2) | 128 (5.4) | 132 (6.0) | 134 (6.0) | 138 (5.5) | 154 (5.0) | 169 (6.0) | 193 (6.9) | 186 (6.8) | 1348 (5.9) |
| Canada | 113 (5.1) | 144 (6.1) | 126 (5.7) | 126 (5.6) | 139 (5.5) | 134 (4.4) | 123 (4.3) | 129 (4.6) | 130 (4.7) | 1164 (5.1) |
| Oceania | 120 (5.5) | 116 (4.9) | 128 (5.8) | 123 (5.5) | 111 (4.4) | 120 (3.9) | 128 (4.5) | 140 (5.0) | 130 (4.7) | 1116 (4.9) |
| Japan | 94 (4.3) | 92 (3.9) | 103 (4.7) | 107 (4.8) | 110 (4.4) | 173 (5.6) | 120 (4.2) | 126 (4.5) | 101 (3.7) | 1026 (4.5) |
| Eastern Europe | 24 (1.1) | 39 (1.7) | 29 (1.3) | 28 (1.2) | 35 (1.4) | 30 (1.0) | 33 (1.2) | 61 (2.2) | 46 (1.7) | 325 (1.4) |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | 8 (0.4) | 13 (0.6) | 16 (0.7) | 19 (0.8) | 21 (0.8) | 29 (0.9) | 31 (1.1) | 35 (1.3) | 34 (1.2) | 206 (0.9) |
| Africa | 25 (1.1) | 19 (0.8) | 20 (0.9) | 16 (0.7) | 13 (0.5) | 15 (0.5) | 17 (0.6) | 16 (0.6) | 20 (0.7) | 161 (0.7) |
| Total | 2200 (100) | 2358 (100) | 2208 (100) | 2252 (100) | 2508 (100) | 3067 (100) | 2836 (100) | 2797 (100) | 2750 (100) | 22976 (100) |
Shown are the numbers of articles published in journals included in the 'critical care medicine' category of the Journal Citation Report database and indexed by PubMed, from different world regions, for the period 1995–2003. Values are expressed as number of articles (%) within a calendar year.