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Figures & data
Figure 1. The contribution of the continents to world rabbit meat production between 1998 and 2017 (source FAO Citation2019).
Table 1. The change of global rabbit meat production between 1998 and 2017 at Continent base (data × 1000 tons equivalent carcases, TEC; source: FAO, Citation2019).
Table 2. The ten-leading rabbit-meat-producing Countries in 1998 and 2017 (×1000 tons equivalent carcases, TEC; source: FAO Citation2019).
Figure 2. Italian production of rabbit meat (× 1000 tons equivalent carcases, TEC) during the last 20 years (sources: FAO database, Citation2019; ISTAT Citation2019).
Table 3. Italian rabbit production and market from 2003 to 2017 (source: ISTAT Citation2019).
Figure 3. World distribution of research funding (k€, % of the total) for rabbit science by country (years 2016–2020).
Figure 4. World distribution of research funding (k€, % of the total) for rabbit science by topic (years 2016–2020).
Table 4. World distribution of research funding for rabbit science.
Table 5. Number of publications at a world level: results of the search in Scopus for ‘rabbit’ in the subject area ‘Agricultural and Biological Sciences’ excluding all other subject areas (accessed 16 June 2019).
Table 6. Number of publications at a world level: results of the search on Scopus for ‘rabbit’ in the subject area ‘Veterinary’ excluding all other subject areas (accessed 16 June 2019).
Table 7. Number of publications at an Italian level: results of the search on Scopus for ‘rabbit’ limiting to Italy as Country/Territory (accessed 16 June 2019).
Table 8. Number of publications at a world and an Italian level: results of the search on Scopus for ‘rabbit’ and the words defining the main research fields in rabbit science for the subject areas ‘Agricultural and Biological Sciences’ (ABS) and ‘Veterinary’ (VET) from 1998 to 2018 (accessed 16 June 2019).
Figure 5. Distribution of teaching activity (% of total ETCS held in Italian Universities) on rabbit science and production. BA: Bari; BO: Bologna; CAM: Camerino; MOL: Molise; MI: Milano; NA: Napoli; PA: Palermo; PC: Piacenza; PD: Padova; PI: Pisa; PG: Perugia; SS: Sassari; TO: Torino; TE: Teramo; UD: Udine.
Table 9. University courses and credits offered in Italy.