Table 4.
The top 10 productive countries of corresponding authors of papers in lung cancer radiotherapy from 2000 to 2022.
| Countries | Paper number | Percentage (N/2941) | Multiple-country paper rate b | Total citation | Citation per paper | Top-paper number a | Top-paper rate | Multiple-country top-paper rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 2610 | 26.45% | 17.43% | 114594 | 43.91 | 51 | 1.95% | 39.22% |
| China Mainland | 2060 | 20.88% | 8.93% | 24484 | 11.89 | 1 | 0.05% | 0.00% |
| Japan | 989 | 10.02% | 3.84% | 21871 | 22.11 | 8 | 0.81% | 12.50% |
| Germany | 525 | 5.32% | 25.90% | 12758 | 24.30 | 4 | 0.76% | 0.00% |
| Korea | 447 | 4.53% | 7.38% | 8096 | 18.11 | 0 | 0 | / |
| Netherlands | 443 | 4.49% | 32.96% | 20433 | 46.12 | 8 | 1.81% | 50.00% |
| France | 326 | 3.30% | 12.58% | 10997 | 33.73 | 6 | 1.84% | 50.00% |
| Italy | 310 | 3.14% | 16.45% | 6327 | 20.41 | 2 | 0.65% | 50.00% |
| Canada | 302 | 3.06% | 27.15% | 8868 | 29.36 | 4 | 1.32% | 100.00% |
| United Kingdom | 282 | 2.86% | 19.50% | 9053 | 32.10 | 7 | 2.48% | 42.86% |
a
Besides the countries mentioned above, corresponding authors from other seven countries contributed nine top-papers.
b
Percentage of multiple-country top-papers among all papers of a country.