Table 2. The main active countries between 2010 and 2019.

Country	Value	No.a	No.b	Total citations	Average citations
Turkey	611 (28.24)	7.40	25.78	6,869	11.24
China	207 (9.57)	0.14	0.91	2,713	13.10
South Korea	199 (9.20)	3.84	9.00	2,309	11.60
Japan	138 (6.38)	1.10	2.63	2,763	20.02
Italy	122 (5.64)	1.95	4.76	2,434	19.95
United States	120 (5.54)	0.35	0.58	3,084	25.70
Iran	107 (4.94)	1.24	10.49	1,983	18.53
France	98 (4.53)	1.43	3.71	2,760	28.16
Spain	64 (2.95)	1.35	3.33	1,344	21.00
Egypt	63 (2.91)	0.59	5.33	391	6.20
United Kingdom	57 (2.63)	0.86	1.83	1,245	21.84
Germany	53 (2.45)	0.66	1.18	508	9.58
Tunisia	49 (2.26)	4.14	40.83	756	15.42
Brazil	29 (1.34)	0.13	0.93	317	10.93
Israel	22 (1.01)	2.50	6.11	214	9.72
Saudi Arabia	22 (1.01)	0.63	1.37	424	19.27

Values are presented as number of articles (%).

^aNumber of articles per million population; ^bNumber of articles per $100 billion gross domestic product.