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The 20 Most-Cited Countries
in Economics & Business, 1995-August 31, 2005 |
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elow 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 Scientific-indexed journals of
Economics & Business over the last 10 years (Jan 1995-August
31, 2005). These countries are the top 20 out of a pool of 76 countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total citation count in this field.
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| RANK |
COUNTRY |
PAPERS |
CITATIONS |
CITATIONS
PER PAPER |
| 1 |
USA |
62,633 |
392,238 |
6.26 |
| 2 |
ENGLAND |
15,012 |
65,196 |
4.34 |
| 3 |
CANADA |
7,307 |
31,642 |
4.33 |
| 4 |
NETHERLANDS |
4,208 |
16,831 |
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| 5 |
FRANCE |
4,251 |
15,569 |
3.66 |
| 6 |
AUSTRALIA |
4,493 |
12,611 |
2.81 |
| 7 |
GERMANY |
4,694 |
12,388 |
2.64 |
| 8 |
ISRAEL |
1,725 |
9,130 |
5.29 |
| 9 |
SWEDEN |
1,956 |
8,506 |
4.35 |
| 10 |
ITALY |
2,468 |
7,488 |
3.03 |
| 11 |
SPAIN |
2,609 |
7,430 |
2.85 |
| 12 |
BELGIUM |
1,742 |
7,240 |
4.16 |
| 13 |
SCOTLAND |
1,646 |
5,894 |
3.58 |
| 14 |
SWITZERLAND |
1,333 |
5,634 |
4.23 |
| 15 |
HONG KONG |
693 |
5,222 |
7.54 |
| 16 |
JAPAN |
2,019 |
4,713 |
2.33 |
| 17 |
PEOPLES R
CHINA |
1,820 |
4,572 |
2.51 |
| 18 |
SOUTH KOREA |
1,181 |
3,861 |
3.27 |
| 19 |
DENMARK |
1,222 |
3,805 |
3.11 |
| 20 |
NORWAY |
1,043 |
3,324 |
3.19 |
SOURCE:
Essential Science Indicators from the November 1, 2005 update covering
a ten-year + eight-month period, January
1995 - August 31, 2005. |
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