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 Mathematics over the
10-year + 6-month period, (1998-June 30, 2008). These
countries are of a pool of 83 countries comprising the
top 50% ranked by total citation count in this field.
Ranked by
Citations
Rank
Field
Papers
Citations
Citations
Per Paper
1
USA
65,830
268,096
4.07
2
FRANCE
22,796
76,515
3.36
3
GERMANY
18,730
64,155
3.43
4
PEOPLES R CHINA
22,200
50,674
2.28
5
ENGLAND
11,618
46,429
4
6
CANADA
11,496
36,784
3.2
7
ITALY
12,537
36,426
2.91
8
JAPAN
12,531
28,832
2.3
9
SPAIN
10,343
28,318
2.74
10
AUSTRALIA
5,805
21,481
3.7
11
RUSSIA
12,082
17,845
1.48
12
ISRAEL
4,957
17,272
3.48
13
NETHERLANDS
3,475
12,849
3.7
14
BELGIUM
3,138
11,082
3.53
15
POLAND
5,091
10,902
2.14
16
SWEDEN
2,775
10,186
3.67
17
SWITZERLAND
2,589
10,089
3.9
18
SOUTH KOREA
4,775
9,910
2.08
19
BRAZIL
3,744
9,263
2.47
20
TAIWAN
3,109
8,594
2.76
SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators from the
September 1, 2008 update covering a 10-year + 6-month
period, 1998-June 30, 2008.