Your newly launched website showcasing Nature Publishing Group's European output (http://www.nature.com/regions/europe) has sections for France, Germany and Italy. We hope that other regions in Europe will soon be given more prominence.
Taking all biomedical papers listed in PubMed in March 2010 by country, a simple estimation (see http://go.nature.com/QTb96x) shows that France, Germany and Italy fall some way down a list of European countries in which people are most productive in bioscience (publications per capita) or where income is most effectively converted into bioscience papers (publications per US$ million gross domestic product). By these criteria, they are in fact overtaken by the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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Evelo, C., Waagmeester, A. Nature Europe site should highlight most productive countries. Nature 465, 685 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465685e
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