Table 2.

Top 15 most productive countries on palliative care research

Rank	Country	No of articles	Percentage of articles published by country	No of citations	Population (in Millions)19	No of articles per million population
1	USA	6029	31.53	146 989	329.8	18.3
2	UK	2406	12.58	51 794	67.5	35.6
3	Canada	1582	8.26	38 970	37.4	42.3
4	Australia	1195	6.25	25 812	25.2	47.4
5	Germany	808	4.22	17 106	83.5	9.7
6	Japan	704	3.68	10 425	126.8	5.5
7	Netherlands	665	3.49	18 299	17.1	39.1
8	Italy	559	2.92%	12 413	60.5	9.2
9	Sweden	470	2.45	9119	10.0	47.0
10	France	427	2.33	7402	65.1	6.5
11	India	427	2.33	4612	1366.4	0.3
12	Spain	398	2.08	7858	46.7	8.5
13	South Korea	369	1.93	6610	51.2	7.2
14	Belgium	348	1.82	6195	11.5	30.3
15	China	314	1.64	4522	1433.7	0.2