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Table 3 Top 10 authorship countries/regions for all 798 publications (2000-2018) using the two methods

From: Research and trends in STEM education: a systematic review of journal publications

Rank

Method 1a

Rank

Method 2

Country

Score (%)

Country

Scores (%)

1

USA

603 (75.75%)

1

USA

596.28 (74.91%)

2

Australia

37 (4.65%)

2

Australia

38.29 (4.81%)

3

Canada

18 (2.26%)

3

Canada

18.42 (2.31%)

4

Taiwan

14 (1.76%)

4

Taiwan

13.76 (1.73%)

4

UK

14 (1.76%)

5

UK

12.83 (1.61%)

6

Spain

12 (1.51%)

6

Spain

12.53 (1.57%)

7

Israel

9 (1.13%)

7

South Korea

9.55 (1.20%)

7

South Korea

9 (1.13%)

8

Turkey

9.02 (1.13%)

9

Germany

8 (1.01%)

9

Israel

8.68 (1.09%)

9

Netherlands

8 (1.01%)

10

Netherlands

7.69 (0.97%)

9

Turkey

8 (1.01%)

   
  1. aMethod 1 refers to the method where only the corresponding author (or the first author, if no specific indication was provided about the corresponding author) was credited, whereas method 2 refers to the case when all co-authors were credited. The same notations are used in Tables 4 and 5