Originally Posted by dyna mo

dumbfuck op, heads-up:::::::;

Of almost 3,000 articles published in biomedical research in 2009, 1,169, or 40%, came from the United States. As the line graph below demonstrates (that?s the number of publications on the Y axis, and the year of publication on the X axis), the output of every other single country in the world is dwarfed by what America produces. The closest contender is Great Britain, which comes in at about 300 articles. (Per the comments below, I?m waiting for more explanation of these numbers.)


It?s certainly possible that the U.S. is publishing entirely low quality data, but another data point, the citation score, seems to indicate that isn?t true. The citation score is the number of times an average paper was referenced by other scientific papers. In the graph below, the Y axis is the citation score and the X axis is the number of publications in total.

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