Reproductive biomedicine online
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The present investigation was conducted to determine how individual European states rank with respect to quantitative productivity in research and publication on IVF. A search in MEDLINE was performed in August 2007 and the number of entries under the MeSH 'Reproductive Techniques, Assisted' was registered for each individual year 1990-2006 for 19 European countries. Countries with a total number of >60 publications between 1990 and 2006 were further evaluated. ⋯ After normalizing the publication number to GDP, Belgium leads the field with a median of 10 publications per year per 10(11) euro GDP, followed by Greece, Sweden, UK and Finland with six, six, five and five publications respectively. The back markers are Switzerland and Germany (one publication each). In conclusion, drastic differences between individual European countries exist in terms of publication activity.