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. 2018 Jun 25;13(6):e0199706. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199706

Table 3. Proportion of original research articles in each research area by year.

Year Epi-demiology Fundamental research Diagnostics Treatment Vaccines Operational and PH research Other Number of papers
2007 32.7 26.9 7.7 7.7 7.7 13.5 3.8 52
2008 23.3 25.0 15.0 3.3 10.0 11.7 11.7 60
2009 26.4 45.8 9.7 1.4 2.8 9.7 4.2 72
2010 22.9 42.9 7.1 5.7 5.7 15.7 0.0 69
2011 26.5 38.6 12.0 2.4 6.0 13.3 1.2 83
2012 32.7 29.7 7.9 10.9 5.0 13.9 0.0 101
2013 24.5 34.9 9.4 5.7 6.6 18.9 0.0 106
2014 35.2 31.5 15.7 6.5 1.9 9.3 0.0 108
2015 29.6 35.2 7.4 10.2 3.7 13.0 0.9 103
2016 36.3 29.0 8.9 8.1 4.8 12.1 0.8 124
Overall 29.6 33.8 10.1 6.6 5.1 13.1 1.7 878

Research areas were identified from the WHO International roadmap for tuberculosis research [17].