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Nature Index Annual Tables 2023: first health-science ranking reveals big US lead

The Netherlands punches above its weight in the country list, and a Canadian institution demonstrates the strength of its clinical collaborations.
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  1. Bianca Nogrady

The United States dominates global health-sciences publishing in the Nature Index Annual Tables 2023, the first to track output in high-quality medical journals. Major government and industry investment has cemented the country’s status as the world leader in health-sciences output. Its closest competitor, China, overtook the United States in natural-sciences output in 2022.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01867-4

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  • Correction 22 June 2023: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that there are 15 research hospitals in the Toronto Academic Health Science Network. In fact, there are 14.

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