Table 4.
Analysis of chiropractor academic publications listed in the database PubMed and Index to Chiropractic Literature in February 2006
| Total chiropractor academics N = 31 | University A chiropractor academics N = 9 | University B chiropractor academics N = 7 | University C chiropractor academics N = 15 | |
| Total PubMed indexed publications | 79 | 36 | 15 | 28 |
| Mean PubMed indexed publications | 2.5 (SD 4.8) | 4.0 (SD 7.6) | 2.1 (SD 4.4) | 1.87 (SD 2.3) |
| Mean PubMed indexed publication rate | 0.27 | 0.36 | 0.25 | 0.21 |
| Total PubMed indexed publications last 5 years | 35 | 19 | 10 | 6 |
| Mean PubMed indexed publications last 5 years | 1.1 (SD 3.2) | 2.1 (SD 5.3) | 1.4 (SD 3.0) | 0.4 (SD 0.8) |
| Mean PubMed indexed recent publication rate | 0.23 | 0.42 | 0.29 | 0.08 |
| Total ICL indexed publications | 265 | 103 | 50 | 112 |
| Mean ICL indexed publications | 8.5 (SD 12.4) | 11.4 (SD 16.0) | 7.1 (SD 11.1) | 7.5 (SD 11.1) |
| Mean ICL indexed publication rate | 0.57 | 0.90 | 0.47 | 0.43 |
| Total ICL indexed publications last 5 years | 69 | 36 | 14 | 19 |
| Mean ICL indexed publications last 5 years | 2.2 (SD 4.9) | 4.0 (SD 8.5) | 2.0 (SD 2.8) | 1.3 (SD 1.6) |
| Mean ICL indexed \ recent publication rate | 0.45 | 0.80 | 0.40 | 0.25 |