Table 5.

Statistics on matches to grant strings by initial grant year

Grant year	No of grants	Mean duration (years)	Percentage of grants with articles	No of articles	No of articles/grant*	No of Scopus articles	Average cites
1980	6504	6.64	71.26	67 584	14.58	14 301	34.82
1981	5453	7.26	73.81	61 559	15.29	13 829	34.69
1982	5374	7.09	75.81	57 930	14.22	14 352	37.20
1983	7126	6.61	69.25	71 574	14.50	20 105	35.53
1984	7367	6.63	69.72	73 688	14.35	21 596	34.93
1985	8252	6.87	71.28	91 440	15.55	31 484	35.18
1986	7358	6.61	69.49	77 272	15.11	27 880	35.93
1987	7458	6.51	66.10	77 671	15.75	29 672	35.89
1988	7402	6.34	65.44	69 798	14.41	28 691	33.79
1989	7630	6.12	61.26	66 632	14.26	30 696	38.45
1990	7443	6.14	57.77	59 894	13.93	31 625	35.94
1991	8257	6.07	59.59	66 192	13.45	39 113	37.58
1992	7984	6.21	65.13	68 231	13.12	45 584	38.17
1993	7108	6.09	61.04	55 383	12.76	41 482	39.03
1994	8085	6.45	65.41	66 355	12.55	54 631	38.06
1995	7768	6.30	66.79	64 255	12.39	56 326	37.83
1996	7399	6.19	70.56	61 111	11.70	54 737	36.84
1997	8489	6.05	70.64	63 180	10.54	56 317	34.73
1998	8616	6.17	73.43	65 868	10.41	58 160	31.06
1999	10 133	6.28	73.85	79 067	10.57	68 735	27.51
2000	11 056	6.28	73.66	88 664	10.89	74 037	23.33
2001	11 070	5.92	72.14	73 224	9.17	62 703	19.56
2002	11 639	5.90	69.69	64 944	8.01	54 646	15.73
2003	13 690	5.73	62.59	62 566	7.30	50 197	13.08
2004	14 322	5.35	57.11	50 402	6.16	38 007	10.31
2005	13 668	5.09	54.23	39 314	5.30	26 777	7.26
2006	12 188	4.70	53.63	27 894	4.27	16 185	5.00
2007	13 015	4.69	48.67	20 166	3.18	8829	2.81
2008	13 782	4.29	31.19	9227	2.15	2074	1.44
2009	17 956	3.89	7.85	2109	1.50	159	3.31

^*Calculated only for grants with articles.