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The 20 Most-Cited Countries
in Clinical Medicine, 1992-2002 |
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 elow is a listing of the top 20
countries which, as of the last bimonthly update of the ISI
Essential Science Indicators
Web product, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in ISI-indexed journals of Clinical Medicine over the last 10 years (March 1992-December 2002). These countries are the top 20 out of a pool of 104 countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total citation count in this field.
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| RANK |
FIELD |
PAPERS |
CITATIONS |
CITATIONS
PER PAPER |
| 1 |
USA |
636,932 |
8,600,922 |
13.5 |
| 2 |
ENGLAND |
149,783 |
1,683,670 |
11.24 |
| 3 |
GERMANY |
143,293 |
1,116,097 |
7.79 |
| 4 |
JAPAN |
143,770 |
1,083,033 |
7.53 |
| 5 |
FRANCE |
102,532 |
886,302 |
8.64 |
| 6 |
CANADA |
70,337 |
885,042 |
12.58 |
| 7 |
ITALY |
77,417 |
770,101 |
9.95 |
| 8 |
NETHERLANDS |
51,716 |
670,650 |
12.97 |
| 9 |
SWEDEN |
42,830 |
504,669 |
11.78 |
| 10 |
AUSTRALIA |
43,885 |
432,168 |
9.85 |
| 11 |
SWITZERLAND |
33,227 |
382,419 |
11.51 |
| 12 |
BELGIUM |
25,270 |
292,120 |
11.56 |
| 13 |
SCOTLAND |
22,357 |
276,513 |
12.37 |
| 14 |
SPAIN |
39,633 |
267,987 |
6.76 |
| 15 |
FINLAND |
21,217 |
267,752 |
12.62 |
| 16 |
DENMARK |
20,869 |
260,791 |
12.5 |
| 17 |
ISRAEL |
22,136 |
180,228 |
8.14 |
| 18 |
AUSTRIA |
20,728 |
173,965 |
8.39 |
| 19 |
NORWAY |
13,081 |
137,982 |
10.55 |
| 20 |
TAIWAN |
15,203 |
80,317 |
5.28 |
SOURCE:
ISI Essential Science Indicators Web
based product from the
March 1, 2003 update covering an eleven year period, March 1, 1992 - December 31, 2002. |
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