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Table 1 Citations and hits obtained with different bibliometric procedures, Medline, 1991–2003.

From: The state of international collaboration for health systems research: what do publications tell?

 

RELEVANCE*

COUNTRY FOR WHICH RESEARCH WAS UNDERTAKEN, BY INCOME REGION

  

Low (LI)

Lower Medium (LMI)

Upper Medium (UMI)

TOTAL Developing Countries

Pre-selected citations (MeSH PubMed)

0–100%

36,794

24,629

25,894

87,317

Topic specific, relevant citations **

11%–100%

8,039

2,467

5,729

16,235

Unique relevant citations

11%–100%

7,762

2,424

5,566

15,671

  1. *As classified by the Collexis search engine. Relevance above 11% is considered acceptable for the purposes of this study.
  2. ** Topic specific hits could overlap across topics. The following row eliminates such duplications.