Table 4.
World area | Year | |||||||||
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 1995–2003 | |
Western Europe | 1401 | 2186 | 1944 | 2434 | 2772 | 3713 | 3158 | 2694 | 3340 | 23,642 |
USA | 2263 | 2941 | 2390 | 2468 | 2860 | 3492 | 3068 | 2989 | 3244 | 25,715 |
Asia (excluding Japan) | 125 | 191 | 190 | 211 | 237 | 317 | 269 | 341 | 407 | 2288 |
Canada | 316 | 526 | 426 | 456 | 570 | 525 | 464 | 479 | 546 | 4308 |
Oceania | 184 | 178 | 222 | 233 | 207 | 295 | 320 | 310 | 300 | 2249 |
Japan | 249 | 300 | 308 | 302 | 367 | 600 | 360 | 394 | 397 | 3276 |
Eastern Europe | 21 | 57 | 32 | 44 | 50 | 60 | 61 | 87 | 91 | 502 |
Latin America and the Caribbean | 19 | 43 | 36 | 54 | 56 | 77 | 80 | 78 | 106 | 549 |
Africa | 24 | 44 | 35 | 24 | 27 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 42 | 252 |
Total | 4602 | 6464 | 5583 | 6226 | 7147 | 9096 | 7800 | 7389 | 8473 | 62781 |
Shown are the total products of articles (number of articles published × their impact factor) 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.