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. 2016 Jul 25;9:25. doi: 10.1186/s40413-016-0116-1

Table 4.

Top 10 productive countries in number of probiotics in pediatrics publications

SCRa Country Articles N = 2817 (%) Articles/10 million inhabitants (Rank) Articles /trillion GDP (Rank) Total citation (Rank) Citations/article (Rank) H-index (Rank) Number of Collaborating countries Number (%)b of documents with international authors
1st USA 616 (22.36) 19.32 (9) 35.36 (10) 18665 (1) 30.30 (6) 69 (1) 61 154 (25.00)
2nd Italy 265 (8.98) 43.2 (4) 123.77 (3) 8093 (3) 30.54 (5) 48 (2) 45 81 (30.57)
3rd United Kingdom 167 (6.26) 25.89 (7) 55.87 (7) 7409 (4) 44.37 (3) 45 (4) 52 66 (39.52)
4th Germany 155 (5.14) 19.16 (10) 40.07 (9) 4982 (6) 32.14 (4) 42 (5) 43 67 (43.23)
5th Poland 141 (5.00) 37.11 (5) 258.72 (2) 3664 (7) 25.99 (9) 29 (9) 29 31 (21.99)
6th Finland 136 (4.86) 248.90 (1) 499.63 (1) 11845 (2) 87.10 (1) 46 (3) 38 44 (32.35)
7th France 132 (4.48) 19.94 (8) 46.66 (8) 3622 (8) 27.44 (8) 30 (7) 40 50 (37.88)
7th Spain 132 (4.48) 28.45 (6) 95.58 (5) 2537 (10) 19.20 (10) 25 (10) 37 38 (28.88)
9th Australia 119 (4.34) 50.66 (3) 81.79 (6) 3333 (9) 28.01 (7) 30 (7) 40 39 (32.77)
10th Netherlands 108 (4.26) 64.09 (2) 122.82 (4) 5212 (5) 48.26 (2) 37 (6) 45 59 (54.63)

Abbreviations: SCR standard competition ranking, USA United States of America, GDP gross domestic product

aEqual countries have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers

bPercentage of documents with international authors from the total number of documents for each country