Below is a listing of the top 20 countries which, as of
the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science
Indicators, attracted the highest total citations
to their papers published in
Thomson
Reuters-indexed journals of Clinical Medicine over
the 10-year + 4-month period (1998-April 30, 2008).
These countries are the top 20 out of a pool of 106
countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total
citation count in this field (see source dates below).
Ranked by
Citations
Rank
Field
Papers
Citations
Citations
Per Paper
1
USA
679,178
10,598,007
15.6
2
ENGLAND
161,257
2,223,465
13.79
3
GERMANY
166,413
1,869,962
11.24
4
JAPAN
159,194
1,493,009
9.38
5
CANADA
82,590
1,266,659
15.34
6
FRANCE
106,792
1,230,025
11.52
7
ITALY
93,577
1,184,239
12.66
8
NETHERLANDS
62,400
987,238
15.82
9
AUSTRALIA
56,527
710,752
12.57
10
SWEDEN
44,507
670,057
15.06
11
SWITZERLAND
38,745
586,313
15.13
12
SPAIN
49,831
520,892
10.45
13
BELGIUM
29,777
451,384
15.16
14
FINLAND
21,462
357,873
16.67
15
DENMARK
22,433
355,782
15.86
16
SCOTLAND
22,669
352,805
15.56
17
AUSTRIA
24,947
294,580
11.81
18
ISRAEL
25,267
267,052
10.57
19
PEOPLES R CHINA
36,737
259,523
7.06
20
NORWAY
14,871
221,609
14.9
SOURCE:
Essential Science Indicators from the August
1, 2008 update covering a 10-year + 4-month period,
1998-April 30, 2008.