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Research contribution of different world regions in the top 50 biomedical journals (1995–2002)

Elpidoforos S. Soteriades^*,, Evangelos S. Rosmarakis^*, Konstantinos Paraschakis^* and Matthew E. Falagas^*,,1

^* Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Athens, Greece;
Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health in association with Harvard School of Public Health, Nicosia, Cyprus; and
Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

¹Correspondence: Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), 9 Neapoleos St., 15123 Marousi, Greece. E-mail: matthew.falagas{at}tufts.edu

We evaluated all articles published by different world regions in the top 50 biomedical journals in the database of the Journal Citation Reports-Institute for Scientific Information for the period between 1995 and 2002. The world was divided into 9 regions [United States of America (the U.S.), Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Africa] based on a combination of geographic, economic and scientific criteria. The number of articles published by each region, the mean impact factor, and the product of the above two parameters were our main indicators. The above numbers were also adjusted for population size, gross national income per capita of each region, and other factors. Articles published from the U.S. made up about two-thirds of all scientific papers published in the top 50 biomedical journals between 1995 and 2002. Western Europe contributed approximately a quarter of the published papers while the remaining one-tenth of articles came from the rest of the world. Canada, however, ranked second when number of articles was adjusted for population size. The U.S. is by far the highest-ranking country/region in publications in the top 50 biomedical journals even after adjusting for population size, gross national product, and other factors. Canada and Western Europe share the second place while the rest of the world is far behind.—Soteriades, E. S., Rosmarakis, E. S., Paraschakis, K., Falagas, M. E. Research contribution of different world regions in the top 50 biomedical journals (1995–2002).

Key Words: research productivity • world regions • top journals • publications’ quality

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