Mapping physical therapy research

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1 Mapping physical therapy research Supplement Johan Larsson Skåne University Hospital, Revingevägen 2, Södra Sandby, Sweden January 26, 2017 Contents 1 Additional maps of Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania. 2 List of Figures 1 The geographical affiliations of articles from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania The geographical affiliations of articles from Europe The geographical affiliations of articles from the United States The geographical affiliations of articles from Central America, South America, and the southern parts of North America Author counts and PEDro scores for all of the countries Individual PEDro items for each country johanlarsson@outlook.com; corresponding author. 1

2 1 Additional maps of Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania. This section provides an in-depth view of the geographical coverage of the articles presented in the original article. Note that the size of points are not proportional among the maps and hence cannot be compared. If you are looking for such comparisons, please see the world map in the original article Figure 1 The geographical affiliations of the first and last authors with an affiliation to East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, or Oceania (n = 1702). Color represents the trials median score on the, whilst the areas of the circles are proportional to the number of articles from each location. Trials that were awaiting appraisal at the time of writing are colored gray. 2

3 Figure 2 The geographical affiliations of the first and last authors with an affiliation to Europe (n = 2215). Color represents the trials median score on the, whilst the areas of the circles are proportional to the number of articles from each location. Trials that were awaiting appraisal at the time of writing are colored gray. 3

4 Figure 3 The geographical affiliations of the first and last authors with an affiliation to the United States (= 988). Color represents the trials median score on the, whilst the areas of the circles are proportional to the number of articles from each location. Trials that were awaiting appraisal at the time of writing are colored gray. 4

5 Figure 4 The geographical affiliations of the first and last authors with an affiliation to Central America, South America, or the southern parts of North America (n = 367). Color represents the trials median score on the, whilst the areas of the circles are proportional to the number of articles from each location. Trials that were awaiting appraisal at the time of writing are colored gray. 5

6 USA UK Turkey Tunisia The Netherlands Thailand Taiwan Switzerland Sweden Sri Lanka Spain South Korea South Africa Slovenia Singapore Serbia Saudi Arabia Russia Romania Portugal Poland Pakistan Norway Nigeria New Zealand Nepal Mexico Malaysia Malawi Luxembourg Lithuania Kosovo Kazakhstan Jordan Japan Italy Israel Ireland Iran Indonesia India Iceland Hungary Guatemala Greece Ghana Germany France Finland Faroe Islands Egypt Denmark Czech Republic Cyprus Croatia Colombia China Chile Canada Brazil Belgium Bangladesh Bahrain Austria Australia Argentina PEDro score Figure 5 Author counts and PEDro scores for all of the countries. 6

7 Fraction of authors fulfilling criteria Thailand Argentina Cyprus Brazil Russia Nigeria Italy Iceland France South Korea Luxembourg The Netherlands Czech Republic Germany Australia Spain Norway Malawi Japan India Saudi Arabia Canada Indonesia Ghana Tunisia Jordan Chile Austria Serbia Denmark Sri Lanka Pakistan Malaysia Turkey Mexico Greece Egypt China Iran Poland Kazakhstan Sweden Singapore Bahrain Guatemala Faroe Islands Slovenia Portugal Nepal Kosovo Ireland UK Colombia Bangladesh Switzerland South Africa Romania Lithuania Israel Hungary Belgium Taiwan Croatia USA Finland New Zealand items Figure 6 The fractions of authors from each country whose trials fulfilled the respective item on the are given on the y axes. The individual PEDro items are represented on the x axes. 7