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. 2017 Jun 18;8(6):514–523. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v8.i6.514

Table 7.

Number of publications required to equivalent with the median (Poland n = 61) using the benchmark measure

Rank Country Published publica- tions 2010-2014 Papers to be published % of published papers
1 China 1222 32 3783
2 India 246 7 3656
3 United States 8149 235 3505
4 South Korea 1354 119 1137
5 Japan 1467 235 952
6 United Kingdom 1644 197 833
7 Germany 1272 203 625
8 Turkey 235 45 525
9 Egypt 68 14 499
10 Italy 737 148 496
11 Canada 930 214 435
12 Brazil 147 48 303
13 France 548 182 301
14 Holland 663 222 298
15 Iran 65 23 280
16 Spain 311 126 246
17 Thailand 52 25 204
18 Greece 182 91 198
19 Taiwan 264 136 194
20 Malawi 2 1 184
21 Australia 485 263 183
22 Sweden 403 251 160
23 Switzerland 527 364 145
24 Austria 295 218 135
25 Croatia 74 57 129
26 Belgium 219 201 109
27 Pakistan 6 6 100
28 Poland 61 61 100
29 Denmark 254 258 98
30 Finland 167 212 79
31 South Africa 21 28 76
32 Hong Kong 130 171 76
33 Israel 119 158 75
34 Serbia 19 26 72
35 Nepal 2 3 67
36 Norway 240 414 58
37 Nigeria 7 14 50
38 Hungary 29 60 49
39 New Zealand 78 161 48
40 Malaysia 23 48 47
41 Czech Republic 39 83 47
42 Ireland 98 231 42
43 Ethiopia 1 2 50
44 Philippines 5 12 41
45 Chile 24 62 39
46 Argentina 20 53 38
47 Singapore 84 239 35
48 Uganda 1 3 33
49 Slovenia 32 102 31
50 Tunisia 5 19 26
51 Portugal 25 94 26
52 Mexico 10 44 23
53 Sudan 1 5 20
54 Lebanon 9 43 21
55 Russia 9 54 17
56 Columbia 5 34 15
57 Morocco 2 14 15
58 Romania 6 42 14
59 Lithuania 9 70 13
60 Saudi Arabia 12 103 12
61 Iraq 3 27 11
62 Bulgaria 3 33 9
63 Estonia 7 86 8.1
64 Luxemburg 14 496 2.8
65 Kuwait 5 185 2.7
66 Iceland 3 221 1.4