Study country region | % LMIC studies | International collaborative research (authors from two or more countries) | First author | Any author | |||||||
% with first author from | % with at least one co-author from | ||||||||||
Study country | Study region | Other region | EURO | AMRO | WPRO | SEARO | EMRO | AFRO | |||
EURO (n = 398) | 5.0 | 19.8% | 92.7 | 96.5 | 4.3 | 99.0 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
AMRO (n = 678) | 22.9 | 21.5% | 89.5 | 95.4 | 5.6 | 10.0 | 99.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
WPRO (n = 179) | 39.7 | 43.0% | 79.3 | 86.0 | 17.9 | 22.3 | 22.3 | 97.2 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
SEARO (n = 139) | 100.0 | 56.1% | 68.3 | 69.8 | 38.8 | 30.9 | 29.5 | 10.8 | 91.4 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
EMRO (n = 39) | 100.0 | 76.9% | 51.3 | 51.3 | 56.4 | 43.6 | 38.5 | 10.3 | 2.6 | 84.6 | 2.6 |
AFRO (n = 253) | 100.0 | 88.1% | 49.4 | 50.6 | 64.8 | 62.8 | 33.6 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 95.7 |
AFRO, sub-Saharan Africa; AMRO, the Americas; EMRO, North Africa/Middle East; EURO, Europe; LMIC, low- or middle-income country; SEARO, South-East Asia; WPRO, East Asia/Oceania.