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. 2018 Dec 12;11(12):2530. doi: 10.3390/ma11122530

Table 7.

Publications per country, population in 2017, gross domestic product (GDP) (reference to 2016, in 1012 USD), number of publications (NP) per million of habitants, and the ratio of number of publications per respective GDP.

Position Country NP Population (2017) (106) GDP (2016) (1012 USD) NP/106 Habitants NP/GDP (1012 USD)
1 United Kingdom 84 66.1816 2.6479 1.2692 31.7233
2 China 58 1410.0000 11.2183 0.0411 5.1701
3 Germany 37 82.1142 3.4778 0.4506 10.6389
4 United States 31 66.1816 18.6245 0.4684 1.6645
5 Belgium 17 11.4293 0.4680 1.4874 36.3283
6 Iran 17 81.1628 0.9323 0.2095 18.2353
7 Spain 13 46.3543 1.2373 0.2804 10.5071
8 Australia 12 24.4506 1.3045 0.4908 9.1992
9 Canada 11 36.6242 1.5298 0.3003 7.1907
10 Italy 11 59.3599 1.8589 0.1853 5.9174
11 India 9 1339.0000 2.2596 0.0067 3.9829
12 France 7 64.9795 2.4655 0.1077 2.8392
13 Brazil 6 209.2883 1.7959 0.0287 3.3409
14 Poland 6 38.1707 0.4714 0.1572 12.7280
15 Portugal 6 10.3295 0.2048 0.5809 29.2916
16 Argentina 4 44.2710 0.5459 0.0904 7.3278
17 Egypt 4 97.5532 0.2701 0.0410 14.8069
18 Japan 4 127.4845 4.9362 0.0314 0.8103
19 Malaysia 4 31.6243 0.2965 0.1265 13.4893
20 South Korea 4 50.9822 3.5730 0.0785 1.1195
21 Finland 3 5.5232 0.2385 0.5432 12.5785
22 Mexico 3 129.1633 1.0769 0.0232 2.7857
23 Turkey 3 80.7450 0.8637 0.0372 3.4734
24 Austria 2 8.7355 0.3908 0.2290 5.1177
25 Czech Republic 2 10.6183 0.1953 0.1884 10.2404
26 Greece 2 11.1598 0.1927 0.1792 10.3793
27 Hong Kong 2 7.3649 0.0215 0.2716 92.9501
28 Hungary 2 9.7216 0.1258 0.2057 15.8961
29 Ireland 2 4.7617 0.3048 0.4200 6.5613
30 Serbia 2 8.7906 0.0383 0.2275 52.2195
31 Singapore 2 5.7088 0.2969 0.3503 6.7352
32 Switzerland 2 8.4760 0.6689 0.2360 2.9902
33 Colombia 1 49.0656 0.2825 0.0204 3.5403
34 Morocco 1 35.7396 0.1036 0.0280 9.6519
35 Netherlands 1 17.0359 0.7772 0.0587 1.2866
36 Pakistan 1 197.0160 0.2825 0.0051 3.5397
37 Russian Federation 1 143.9898 1.2460 0.0069 0.8026
38 Taiwan 1 23.6265 0.0222 0.0423 45.1201
39 Undefined 6 - - - -