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Table 2 Most active countries and international collaboration on health-related aspects of natural disasters (1900–2017)

From: A bibliometric analysis of health-related literature on natural disasters from 1900 to 2017

Country

Frequency

N = 9073

%

GDP per capita (×1000)

Number of publications per GDP per capita

Number of collaborating countries

SCP

%

MCP

%

United States

3128

34.5

57.467

54.4

101

2516

80.4

612

19.6

Japan

700

7.7

38.895

18.0

52

568

81.1

132

18.9

China

636

7.0

8.123

78.3

41

466

73.3

170

26.7

Australia

394

4.3

49.928

7.9

52

227

57.6

167

42.4

United Kingdom

357

3.9

39.899

8.9

71

159

44.5

198

55.5

Canada

241

2.7

42.158

5.7

54

117

48.5

124

51.5

Italy

213

2.3

30.527

7.0

47

117

54.9

96

45.1

India

209

2.3

1.741

120.0

29

169

80.9

40

19.1

Germany

181

2.0

41.936

4.3

44

122

67.4

59

32.6

France

161

1.8

36.855

4.4

57

94

58.4

67

41.6

Turkey

152

1.7

10.788

14.1

26

89

58.6

63

41.4

New Zealand

150

1.7

39.427

3.8

9

121

80.7

29

19.3

Iran

138

1.5

5.305

26.0

12

97

70.3

41

29.7

Sweden

123

1.4

51.600

2.4

36

62

50.4

61

49.6

Israel

108

1.2

37.293

2.9

29

58

53.7

50

46.3

Switzerland

108

1.2

78.813

1.4

41

51

47.2

57

52.8

Taiwan

101

1.1

24.577

4.1

21

63

62.4

38

37.6

  1. GDP gross domestic product, SCP single country publications, MCP multiple country publications