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