Figure 1 Funding and publication in diabetes, hearing and tinnitus research.(a) Average academic funding for diabetes, hearing and tinnitus research between 2009 and 2011 by the NIH or the European FP7. Note that no funding for tinnitus research was provided by the FP7. comparison with the NIH was therefore not possible and is represented by the symbol o. currency rate (average of 2009, 2010, 2011)€ 1 to $1.3367.(b) Average national support for diabetes and hearing research between 2009 and 2011 for selected European countries, including Wellcome Trust (WT), National Institute for Health Research, the Medical Research council (MRc), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Vetenskapsrådet (VR), Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap (FAS), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). currency rates to US dollars were performed with the average of the currency values in January 2009, 2010, 2011 (cHF: 0.9760; SEK: 0.1385; BDP: 1.5396; EUR: 1.3367).(c) Number of publications in 2011 involving tinnitus research based on country or region of origin. The country or region of the first author of each paper was considered for determining its origin.