Table 2 |
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Number of articles indexed by PubMed from different Africa subregions for the period of 1996 to 2005 |
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| Number of articles [% percentage within calendar year] (% share of world research output) |
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| Subregions |
1996 – 2005 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
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| Eastern Africa |
6810 |
662 |
581 |
486 |
588 |
631 |
719 |
742 |
772 |
782 |
847 |
| [18.2] (0.13) |
[27.1] (0.15) |
[20.5] (0.13) |
[16.6] (0.11) |
[18.7] (0.12) |
[17.9] (0.12) |
[18.1] (0.13) |
[18.0] (0.13) |
[17.4] (0.13) |
[16.6] (0.12) |
[15.6] (0.12) |
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| Middle Africa |
1094 |
46 |
71 |
81 |
80 |
88 |
103 |
126 |
145 |
164 |
190 |
| [2.9] (0.02) |
[1.9] (0.01) |
[2.5] (0.02) |
[2.8] (0.02) |
[2.6] (0.02) |
[2.5] (0.02) |
[2.6] (0.02) |
[3.1] (0.02) |
[3.3] (0.02) |
[3.5] (0.02) |
[3.5] (0.03) |
|
| Northern Africa |
9248 |
534 |
529 |
620 |
735 |
804 |
1017 |
1005 |
1230 |
1284 |
1490 |
| [24.7] (0.17) |
[21.9] (0.12) |
[18.6] (0.12) |
[21.6] (0.13) |
[23.4] (0.15) |
[22.8] (0.15) |
[25.5] (0.19) |
[24.4] (0.19) |
[27.8] (0.18) |
[27.3] (0.21) |
[27.5] (0.22) |
|
| Southern Africa |
11493 |
840 |
923 |
963 |
961 |
1186 |
1241 |
1205 |
1268 |
1334 |
1313 |
| [30.7] (0.22) |
[34.4] (0.19) |
[32.5] (0.21) |
[33.6] (0.21) |
[30.6] (0.21) |
[33.6] (0.20) |
[31.2] (0.23) |
[29.2] (0.23) |
[28.6] (0.22) |
[28.4] (0.22) |
[29.1] (0.23) |
|
| Western Africa |
8822 |
360 |
735 |
718 |
777 |
821 |
903 |
1049 |
1011 |
1135 |
1313 |
| [23.6] (0.17) |
[14.7] (0.08) |
[25.9] (0.17) |
[25.0] (0.16) |
[24.7] (0.16) |
[23.3] (0.16) |
[22.7] (0.17) |
[25.4] (0.19) |
[22.8] (0.19) |
[24.2] (0.17) |
[24.3] (0.19 |
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| All |
37467 |
2442 |
2839 |
2868 |
3141 |
3530 |
3983 |
4127 |
4426 |
4699 |
5412 |
| [100.0] (0.70) |
[100.0] (0.55) |
[100.0] (0.64) |
[100.0] (0.62) |
[100.0] (0.65) |
[100.0] (0.68) |
[100.0] (0.74) |
[100.0] (0.74) |
[100.0] (0.76) |
[100.0] (0.75) |
[100.0] (0.79) |
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Shown are the numbers of articles indexed by PubMed, from different Africa subregions, for the period 1996 – 2005. Values are expressed as number of articles (%) within a calendar year, and percentage of worldwide publications |
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Uthman and Uthman International Journal of Health Geographics 2007 6:46 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-46 |
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