Table 1

Comparison of the scientific production of different countries

Country		Rheumatological journals				All medical journals		% Rheum papers		IF ratio rheum/ all
Country		Number of papers	% (UE= 100)			Mean IF	Papers/ GDP	% Rheum papers		IF ratio rheum/ all		Papers/ million population	Number of papers	% (UE= 100)	Mean IF	Papers/ GDP	Papers/ million population
Austria	16	1.2	3.7	0.08	1.9		2165	1.9	2.6	11.6	270.1	0.7	1.4
Belgium	38	2.9	1.4	0.18	3.8		3367	2.9	2.6	15.9	337.4	1.1	0.5
Denmark	26	2.0	1.8	0.19	5.0		2893	2.5	2.4	21.2	562.1	0.9	0.8
Finland	51	3.9	2.1	0.53	10.2		2700	2.3	2.5	28.4	540.2	1.9	0.8
France	229	17.4	1.6	0.18	4.0		17 325	14.9	2.5	13.6	306.0	1.3	0.6
Germany	151	11.5	1.6	0.07	1.8		20 314	17.5	2.5	10.6	249.7	0.7	0.6
Greece	12	0.9	2.0	0.15	1.1		985	0.8	1.6	12.9	95.9	1.2	1.3
Ireland	7	0.5	2.8	0.15	1.9		821	0.7	2.1	18.5	232.8	0.9	1.3
Italy	142	10.8	1.6	0.12	2.4		11 238	9.7	2.4	9.5	196.6	1.3	0.7
Luxembourg	0	0.0	0.0	0.00	0.0		15	0.0	4.8	1.0	38.9	0.0	0.0
Netherlands	99	7.5	2.3	0.31	6.5		7535	6.5	3.0	24.0	498.0	1.3	0.8
Norway	24	1.8	1.7	0.21	5.5		1666	1.4	2.2	14.7	387.5	1.4	0.8
Portugal	6	0.5	1.3	0.07	0.6		390	0.3	2.0	5.0	39.5	1.5	0.7
Spain	75	5.7	2.0	0.14	1.9		6534	5.6	2.2	12.3	168.6	1.2	0.9
Sweden	53	4.0	2.1	0.24	6.0		6321	5.4	2.4	29.2	727.2	0.8	0.9
United Kingdom	387	29.4	2.4	0.37	6.6		31 921	27.5	3.5	30.5	548.5	1.2	0.7
EU	1316	100.0	2.0	0.17	3.5		116 190	100.0	2.8	15.6	312.0	1.1	0.7
Australia	55	4.2	2.7	0.17	3.1		7202	6.2	2.6	23.3	408.6	0.8	1.0
Canada	138	10.5	2.6	0.24	5.0		12 316	10.6	3.0	21.8	451.1	1.1	0.9
Israel	27	2.1	2.5	0.38	5.3		3019	2.6	2.8	43.3	596.7	0.9	0.9
Japan	69	5.2	2.9	0.01	0.5		23 130	19.9	2.4	5.9	185.8	0.3	1.2
Mexico	23	1.7	2.7	0.07	0.2		748	0.6	1.7	2.4	9.2	3.1	1.6
Switzerland	36	2.7	2.0	0.14	5.1		4634	4.0	3.2	18.2	664.9	0.8	0.6
USA	544	41.3	3.5	0.08	2.0		118 482	102.0	3.9	18.3	454.4	0.5	0.9
World	2331	177.1	2.4	0.09	0.4		309 501	266.4	3.1	12.8	62.0	0.8	0.8