Table 1.

Research publications, funding years, and project costs associated with 210 NMEs approved 2010–2016 or their molecular targets

Metrics	Drug	Target	Total
PubMed results
Searches	210	151	361
Publications	131,092	1,966,481	2,097,573
NIH funding
Publications (%)	22,706 (17)	587,996 (30)	610,702 (29)
Searches (%)	198 (94)	151 (100)
Funding years 1980–2016	14,292	207,599*	221,891
Funding years with costs	10,031	150,278*	160,309
Costs 2000–2016, billion $	12.5	102.8*	115.3

^*Target only.