From: Worldwide research productivity in critical care medicine
World area | Year | |||||||||
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1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 1995–2003 | |
Western Europe | 1.95 | 2.64 | 2.43 | 2.80 | 2.67 | 2.80 | 2.58 | 2.39 | 2.91 | 2.60 |
USA | 2.30 | 3.01 | 2.80 | 2.98 | 3.16 | 3.21 | 3.09 | 3.07 | 3.39 | 3.01 |
Asia (excluding Japan) | 1.10 | 1.49 | 1.44 | 1.57 | 1.72 | 2.06 | 1.59 | 1.76 | 2.19 | 1.70 |
Canada | 2.79 | 3.66 | 3.38 | 3.62 | 4.10 | 3.92 | 3.77 | 3.71 | 4.20 | 3.70 |
Oceania | 1.53 | 1.53 | 1.74 | 1.90 | 1.87 | 2.46 | 2.50 | 2.21 | 2.31 | 2.01 |
Japan | 2.65 | 3.26 | 2.99 | 2.82 | 3.33 | 3.47 | 3.00 | 3.13 | 3.93 | 3.19 |
Eastern Europe | 0.86 | 1.46 | 1.09 | 1.56 | 1.44 | 2.00 | 1.83 | 1.43 | 1.99 | 1.55 |
Latin America and the Caribbean | 2.42 | 3.30 | 2.23 | 2.85 | 2.68 | 2.65 | 2.57 | 2.23 | 3.11 | 2.66 |
Africa | 0.98 | 2.29 | 1.75 | 1.52 | 2.06 | 1.16 | 1.26 | 1.08 | 2.11 | 1.57 |
Mean (for all regions) | 2.09 | 2.74 | 2.53 | 2.76 | 2.85 | 2.97 | 2.75 | 2.64 | 3.08 | 2.73 |