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 Economics &
Business over the 10-year + 10-month period,
(1998-October 31, 2008). These countries are of a pool
of 81 countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total
citation count in this field.