TOP 20 COUNTRIES IN ALL FIELDS

     

For the tenth consecutive year,ScienceWatch.com Webmaster Spyder Schafer presents the 10th annual "Top 20" listings of countries which, according to the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM, achieved particular distinction based on their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals from January 2001 through August 31, 2011, a 10-year plus 8-month period (fourth bimonthly).

Out of the 147 countries in the Essential Science Indicators database, 60 published at least 10,000 papers during the period. Countries are listed by three separate measures in the tables below: number of citations, total papers, and cites per paper. (Note: For articles with multiple authors representing different countries, each listed country receives full, not fractional, citation credit for the given paper.)

 

• PAPERS
• CITATIONS
• CITATIONS PER PAPER
• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

LISTED BY PAPERS

Rank	Country	Papers	Citations	Cites per paper
1	USA	3,049,662	48,862,100	16.02
2	PEOPLES R CHINA	836,255	5,191,358	6.21
3	GERMANY	784,316	10,518,133	13.41
4	JAPAN	771,548	8,084,145	10.48
5	ENGLAND	697,763	10,508,202	15.06
6	FRANCE	557,322	7,007,693	12.57
7	CANADA	451,588	6,019,195	13.33
8	ITALY	429,301	5,151,675	12.00
9	SPAIN	339,164	3,588,655	10.58
10	AUSTRALIA	304,160	3,681,695	12.10
11	INDIA	293,049	1,727,973	5.90
12	SOUTH KOREA	282,328	2,024,609	7.17
13	RUSSIA	265,721	1,282,281	4.83
14	NETHERLANDS	252,242	3,974,719	15.76
15	BRAZIL	212,243	1,360,097	6.41
16	SWITZERLAND	181,636	3,070,458	16.9
17	SWEDEN	179,126	2,686,304	15.00
18	TAIWAN	177,929	1,273,682	7.16
19	TURKEY	155,276	819,071	5.27
20	POLAND	154,016	1,036,062	6.73