Worldwide research productivity in critical care medicine

Table 4 'Total product' of articles published in 'critical care medicine': 1995–2003

World area	Year
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	1995–2003
Western Europe	1401	2186	1944	2434	2772	3713	3158	2694	3340	23,642
USA	2263	2941	2390	2468	2860	3492	3068	2989	3244	25,715
Asia (excluding Japan)	125	191	190	211	237	317	269	341	407	2288
Canada	316	526	426	456	570	525	464	479	546	4308
Oceania	184	178	222	233	207	295	320	310	300	2249
Japan	249	300	308	302	367	600	360	394	397	3276
Eastern Europe	21	57	32	44	50	60	61	87	91	502
Latin America and the Caribbean	19	43	36	54	56	77	80	78	106	549
Africa	24	44	35	24	27	17	21	17	42	252
Total	4602	6464	5583	6226	7147	9096	7800	7389	8473	62781

Shown are the total products of articles (number of articles published × their impact factor) published in journals included in the 'critical care medicine' category of the Journal Citation Report database and indexed by PubMed, from different world regions, for the period 1995–2003.

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