Worldwide orthopaedic research activity 2010-2014: Publication rates in the top 15 orthopaedic journals related to population size and gross domestic product

Table 8 Number of publications required to equivalent with the leader (United States) the benchmark measure

Rank	Country	Published publica-tions 2010-2014	Papers to be published	% of published papers
1	China	1222	1132	108
2	India	246	236	104
3	United States	8149	8149	100
4	South Korea	1354	4174	32
5	Japan	1467	5402	27
6	United Kingdom	1644	6915	24
7	Germany	1272	7138	18
8	Turkey	235	1569	15
9	Egypt	68	477	14
10	Italy	737	5210	14
11	Canada	930	7498	12
12	Brazil	147	1699	8.6
13	France	548	6378	8.6
14	Holland	663	7787	8.5
15	Iran	65	812	8
16	Spain	311	4429	7
17	Thailand	52	892	5.8
18	Greece	182	3208	5.6
19	Taiwan	264	892	5.5
20	Malawi	2	38	5.2
21	Australia	485	9243	5.1
22	Sweden	403	8797	4.6
23	Switzerland	527	12775	4.1
24	Austria	295	7640	3.9
25	Croatia	74	2011	3.7
26	Belgium	219	7068	3.1
27	Pakistan	6	197	3
28	Poland	61	2141	2.8
29	Denmark	254	9091	2.7
30	Finland	167	7436	2.2
31	South Africa	21	968	2.1
	Hong Kong	130	5995	2.1
	Israel	119	5553	2.1
	Serbia	19	918	2.1
32	Nepal	2	105	1.9
33	Norway	240	14523	1.6
34	Nigeria	7	487	1.5
35	Hungary	29	2094	1.4
	New Zealand	78	5656	1.4
	Malaysia	23	1688	1.4
36	Czech Republic	39	2915	1.3
	Ireland	98	8115	1.2
	Ethiopia	1	86	1.2
	Philippines	5	429	1.2
37	Chile	24	2168	1.1
	Argentina	20	1867	1.1
38	Singapore	84	8401	1
39	Uganda	1	107	0.94
40	Slovenia	32	3582	0.89
41	Tunisia	5	660	0.76
42	Portugal	25	3303	0.75
43	Mexico	10	1541	0.65
44	Sudan	1	166	0.6
	Lebanon	9	1502	0.6
45	Russia	9	1901	0.47
46	Columbia	5	1180	0.42
47	Morocco	2	476	0.42
48	Romania	6	1492	0.4
49	Lithuania	9	2464	0.36
50	Saudi Arabia	12	3606	0.33
51	Iraq	3	958	0.31
52	Bulgaria	3	1172	0.26
53	Estonia	7	3009	0.23
54	Luxemburg	14	17412	0.08
	Kuwait	5	6507	0.08
55	Iceland	3	7762	0.04