Table 1.

Change in the number and proportion of articles in leadership of French research areas between periods 2004–2008 and 2009–2013

	2004–2008 top 10 % publications			2009–2013 top 10 % publications			Share of funding (%)
Research areas	Leadership, n	Global top 10 %, n	Leadership, %	Leadership, n	Global top 10 %, n	Leadership, %	2009–2013
Nice	2	6	33.3	17	25	68.0	5.2
Caen	13	16	81.3	20	30	66.7	2.1
Lille	10	15	66.7	36	56	64.3	10.6
Toulouse	16	21	76.2	46	80	57.5	6.4
Paris 07	9	13	69.2	12	21	57.1	4.5
Rouen	2	6	33.3	13	24	54.2	3.1
Paris 05	6	8	75.0	13	26	50.0	6.9
Angers	0	2	0.0	11	22	50.0	1.5
Bordeaux	15	24	62.5	23	51	45.1	10.5
Paris 06	23	34	67.6	28	63	44.4	14.1
Paris 11	7	17	41.2	18	46	39.1	3.5
Lyon	5	11	45.5	12	33	36.4	3.6
Montpellier	9	13	69.2	16	53	30.2	4.5