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Table 5 Product of number of articles and impact factor, adjusted for population and GDP

From: Worldwide research productivity in critical care medicine

World Areas

Number of articles multiplied by their impact factor/population of the area (in millions)

Number of articles multiplied by their impact factor/GDP of the area (in hundreds of billions 1995 US dollars)

Western Europe

6.74

26.3

USA

10.10

33.5

Asia (excluding Japan)

0.07

7.1

Canada

15.67

71.5

Oceania

8.15

47.9

Japan

2.88

6.5

Eastern Europe

0.13

5.1

Latin America and the Caribbean

0.12

3.2

Africa

0.04

5.2

  1. Shown are the numbers of articles in journals included in the 'critical care medicine' category of the Journal Citation Report database multiplied by their impact factors, adjusted for population and gross domestic product (GDP).