CMI editorial report 2013 Clinical Microbiology and Infection C. Yelnik, R. Cousens, D. Raoult  Clinical Microbiology and Infection  Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 1-7 (January 2013) DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12065 Copyright © 2013 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

FIG. 1 Wealth and scientific production currently go together. The map (a) extracted from Wikipedia (February 2012), shows the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, the usual way to measure the wealth of states. The map (b) presents what can be called the current state of ‘science domestic production’ per capita. Using the same principle as the GDP, this was calculated by gathering, for each country, the number of scientific publications, including all fields, over the previous 5 years (2007–2011) and calculating a ratio with the number of inhabitants. This results in the number of publications per capita. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2013 19, 1-7DOI: (10.1111/1469-0691.12065) Copyright © 2013 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

FIG. 2 Growing rates of gross domestic product (GDP) and scientific production also go together. (a) Made by calculating the real GDP growth rate over the previous year (2011). (b) Made by calculating the growth rate of scientific production in ‘all fields’ between 2001 and 2011. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2013 19, 1-7DOI: (10.1111/1469-0691.12065) Copyright © 2013 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

FIG. 3 The rate of evolution scientific production in microbiology. (a) The number of publications per capita in microbiology over the last 5 years (2007–2011). (b) The growing rate of publications in microbiology between 2001 and 2011. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2013 19, 1-7DOI: (10.1111/1469-0691.12065) Copyright © 2013 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

FIG. 4 The geographical distribution of CMI submissions and publications between 2010 and June 2012. (a) The national submission ratios per capita. (b) The national acceptance rates. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2013 19, 1-7DOI: (10.1111/1469-0691.12065) Copyright © 2013 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions