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Table 1 Country-specific relevance of assigned categories in research with animal models. A comparison of five selected countries (table contains multiple nominations).

From: Models of asthma: density-equalizing mapping and output benchmarking

Assigned subject category (Top 10)

Average percentual amount of all publishing countries

Japan

United Kingdom

Netherlands

United States

Germany

Immunology

38.9%

43.6%

37.5%

31.3%

38.8%

45.0%

Respiratory system

21.2%

18.3%

19.0%

23.2%

23.3%

12.9%

Allergy

21.0%

27.2%

19.8%

15.9%

16.6%

30.4%

Pharmacology and pharmacy

18.5%

23.6%

29.8%

27.3%

11.3%

13.3%

Cell biology

10.0%

8.3%

7.2%

14.2%

12.1%

7.9%

Biochemistry and molecular biology

9.8%

8.7%

9.4%

11.9%

11.4%

7.1%

Critical care medicine

5.9%

4.8%

3.0%

9.1%

6.8%

4.2%

Medicine, research and experimental

5.6%

4.6%

4.0%

1.7%

7.3%

6.7%

Physiology

5.0%

1.9%

2.7%

0.6%

7.2%

0%

Toxicology

4.9%

4.1%

4.8%

10.2%

5.2%

7.1%