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 Geosciences
over the 10-year + 2-month period (1998-February
29, 2008). These countries are the top 20 out of a
pool of 87 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
81,781
942,652
11.53
2
ENGLAND
22,676
247,464
10.91
3
GERMANY
22,422
234,353
10.45
4
FRANCE
20,879
205,563
9.85
5
CANADA
17,204
151,984
8.83
6
AUSTRALIA
12,014
124,288
10.35
7
JAPAN
14,767
106,483
7.21
8
PEOPLES R CHINA
16,489
85,440
5.18
9
ITALY
11,288
83,759
7.42
10
SWITZERLAND
6,113
71,999
11.78
11
NETHERLANDS
5,991
64,449
10.76
12
RUSSIA
18,140
57,922
3.19
13
SWEDEN
4,415
43,593
9.87
14
SPAIN
6,203
42,384
6.83
15
NORWAY
4,260
38,838
9.12
16
SCOTLAND
3,646
32,940
9.03
17
DENMARK
3,055
32,749
10.72
18
INDIA
7,300
27,138
3.72
19
NEW ZEALAND
2,959
25,973
8.78
20
BELGIUM
2,470
22,365
9.05
SOURCE: Essential Science
Indicators from the May 1, 2008 update covering a
10-year + 2-month period, 1998-February 29, 2008.
RELATED> Also see:
archives of Top 20 Nations in Geosciences,September 2006.