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. 2015 Sep 26;7:60. doi: 10.1186/s13195-015-0144-z

Table 2.

Number of published articles for the top 14 countries worldwide during the time periods 2004–2008, 2009–2013 and 2004–2013, across all disease areas and specifically in Alzheimer disease and the four major comparator disease states (stroke, Parkinson disease, HIV and diabetes)

All Alzheimer Stroke Parkinson HIV Diabetes
2004–2013 2004–2008 2009–2013 2004–2008 2009–2013 2004–2008 2009-2013 2004–2008 2009-2013 2004–2008 2009–2013 2004–2008 2009–2013
United States 2,949,083 1,303,555 1,645,528 11,260 14,499 11,561 16,615 6537 8335 20,976 26,938 25,006 33,842
China 1,188,127 383,509 804,618 1247 3830 1289 4370 665 1932 1577 3441 2413 8499
United Kingdom 795,735 343,455 451,080 2487 3435 3241 4689 1767 2214 4080 5461 5822 7752
Germany 757,711 323,922 433,789 2037 2956 2950 4400 1772 2316 1928 2285 4516 6069
Japan 675,315 321,389 353,926 2240 2543 2328 3408 1451 1576 1369 1503 5706 7192
France 537,568 231,875 305,893 1250 1932 1485 2264 997 1281 3123 3331 2890 3726
Canada 467,998 198,202 269,796 1448 1999 1974 3061 992 1354 1963 3014 3227 4889
Italy 424,650 175,930 248,720 1775 2463 1358 2770 1232 1758 2090 2244 3681 5219
Spain 375,748 145,233 230,515 1010 1776 1029 1690 817 1226 1811 2221 2185 3364
India 353,056 134,381 218,675 296 769 319 771 207 534 1201 2122 1512 3487
Australia 334,610 127,767 206,843 822 1512 1172 2199 510 796 1298 2069 2442 4144
South Korea 329,696 117,933 211,763 743 1386 892 2188 432 954 337 509 1588 3702
Netherlands 257,829 104,649 153,180 830 1191 1207 2031 531 814 1106 1675 2137 3285
Brazil 861,367 93,334 168,033 377 753 450 987 270 518 1273 2025 1384 2980
World 10,439,490 4,364,842 6,074,648 26,190 38,302 32,552 50,506 17,219 24,059 42,679 56,171 68,575 101,968