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Table 2 Top 20 most productive countries in HRQoL research

From: Research trends and hotspots of health-related quality of life: a bibliometric analysis from 2000 to 2019

Country

TA (%)

SA (%)

CA (%)

SA/CA

USA

7628(30.37)

4945(64.83)

2683(35.17)

1.84

UK

3114(12.4)

1257(40.37)

1857(59.63)

0.68

Germany

2315(9.22)

1258(54.34)

1057(45.66)

1.19

Canada

2019(8.04)

893(44.23)

1126(55.77)

0.79

Netherlands

1911(7.61)

1133(59.29)

778(40.71)

1.46

Sweden

1541(6.13)

864(56.07)

677(43.93)

1.28

Spain

1537(6.12)

911(59.27)

626(40.73)

1.46

Australia

1380(5.49)

636(46.09)

744(53.91)

0.85

China

1242(4.94)

812(65.38)

430(34.62)

1.89

Italy

1148(4.57)

568(49.48)

580(50.52)

0.98

France

1006(4)

390(38.77)

616(61.23)

0.63

Japan

858(3.42)

643(74.94)

215(25.06)

2.99

Brazil

845(3.36)

556(65.8)

289(34.2)

1.92

Norway

701(2.79)

398(56.78)

303(43.94)

1.31

Switzerland

590(2.35)

131(22.2)

459(77.8)

0.29

South Korea

582(2.32)

447(76.8)

135(23.2)

3.31

Denmark

572(2.28)

230(40.21)

342(59.79)

0.67

Finland

559(2.23)

408(72.99)

151(27.01)

2.70

Belgium

479(1.91)

79(16.49)

400(83.51)

0.20

Turkey

470(1.87)

391(83.19)

79(16.81)

4.95

  1. TA (%): the number of articles published by each country (percentage of all articles); SA (%): the number of single-country articles (percentage of TA); CA (%): the number of internationally-collaborative articles (percentage of TA)