Top 20 Countries: Citations in Five-Year Increments

Last month ScienceWatch.com presented its annual "Top 20" listings of countries (across all 22 fields), which as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators^SM, achieved particular distinction based on their papers published in Clarivate-indexed journals from January 2001 through August 31, 2011, a 10-year plus 8-month period (fourth bimonthly). This month, ScienceWatch.com Webmaster Spyder Schafer presents additional data for the latest annual selection of “Top 20” countries. In this analyses, the graphs below show each country’s citations in overlapping five-year increments since 2001. The countries are listed in the same order—again, according to total citations—as they were last month.
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SCI-BYTES Features for the week of Dec. 25, 2011

Thomson Reuters, as a publisher of Web-based information resources, recognizes the need for and value of reliable high-quality information to individual researchers and users as well as to the larger library community. Each week, the Research Services Group of Clarivate provides an update based on Essential Science Indicators^SM and their Research Performance & Evaluation Tools.

Below are the features for this week in Sci-Bytes:

• Science in Finland, 2006-10
• Economics: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2005-09
• Hot Paper in Medicine
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