Outside the top five ceuntriesin the Asia-Pacific thereisasteep drop-off in NPI output. Only 3 of the 11 other nations in the region - Taiwan, India and New Zealand - have a corrected count of more than 1.5. Many of the NPI contributions from the remaining eight nations derive from studies about locally relevant issues such as important food staples, tropical diseases, ecology and geology.
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