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## Background Studying the contribution of individual countries to leading journals in a specific discipline can highlight which countries have the most impact on that discipline and whether a geographic bias exists. This article aims to examine the international distribution of publications in the field of bioethics. ## Methods Retrospective quantitative study of nine peer reviewed journals in the field of bioethics and medical ethics (__Bioethics__, __Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics__, __Hastings Center Report__, __Journal of Clinical Ethics__, __Journal of Medical Ethics__, __Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal__, __Nursing Ethics__, __Christian Bioethics__, __and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics__). ## Results In total, 4,029 articles published between 1990 and 2003 were retrieved from the nine bioethical journals under study. The United States (59.3%, n = 2390), the United Kingdom (13.5%, n = 544), Canada (4%, n = 160) and Australia (3.8%, n = 154) had the highest number of publications in terms of absolute number of publications. When normalized to population size, smaller affluent countries, such as New Zealand, Finland and Sweden were more productive than the Uni

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Author

Pascal Borry; Paul Schotsmans; Kris Dierickx

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2000-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1472-6939)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)