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Table 5 Productivity of HBC MDR-TB along with their citation analysis and international collaboration

From: Bibliometric analysis of worldwide publications on multi-, extensively, and totally drug – resistant tuberculosis (2006–2015)

Countrya

Frequency

(%)

N = 2260

TC

C/A

h-index

NCC

SCP

% of SCP

MCP

% of MCP

  

Top HBC MDR-TB countries by estimated absolute number (in alphabetical order)

 

Bangladesh

12

0.53

294

24.50

6

7

5

41.67

7

58.33

DR Congo

4

0.18

9

2.25

2

5

0

0.00

4

100.00

Ethiopia

13

0.58

172

13.23

6

6

7

53.85

6

46.15

Indonesia

7

0.31

14

2.00

2

5

5

71.43

2

28.57

Kazakhstan

4

0.18

9

2.25

1

1

0

0.00

4

100.00

Kenya

7

0.31

309

44.14

4

14

2

28.57

5

71.43

Mozambique

2

0.09

295

147.50

2

5

0

0.00

2

100.00

Nigeria

9

0.40

32

3.56

3

9

4

44.44

5

55.56

Pakistan

43

1.90

283

6.58

11

29

25

58.14

18

41.86

Philippines

31

1.37

1705

55.00

14

33

5

16.13

26

83.87

Russian F.

51

2.26

1983

38.88

23

36

8

15.69

43

84.31

Thailand

40

1.77

815

20.38

12

29

18

45.00

22

55.00

Ukraine

10

0.44

61

6.10

6

18

3

30.00

7

70.00

Uzbekistan

7

0.31

189

27.00

5

11

0

0.00

7

100.00

Viet Nam

18

0.80

514

28.56

8

28

3

16.67

15

83.33

  

Countries with the highest number of TB case rates per capita

 

Azerbaijan

2

0.09

443

221.50

1

9

0

0.00

2

100.00

Belarus

19

0.84

469

24.68

9

33

0

0.00

19

100.00

Peru

69

3.05

2501

36.25

21

28

9

13.04

60

86.96

Moldova

9

0.40

108

12.00

7

22

0

0.00

9

100.00

Somalia

1

0.04

8

8.00

1

3

0

0.00

1

100.00

  1. HBC MDR-TB High Burden Countries with Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis
  2. TC total citations
  3. C/A average number of citations per article. It is calculated by dividing the total number of citations by total number of publications retrieved for the assigned country
  4. NCC number of collaborating countries
  5. SCP single country publications (intra country collaboration)
  6. MCP multiple country publications (inter country collaboration)
  7. h-index Hirsh index
  8. aCountries were listed alphabetically. Countries that were listed in top ten list were not listed in this table: China, India, and South Africa. The following countries have zero contribution: N. Korea, Myanmar, Angola, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe