H-index Rank for Countries: for Science Publications
Posted on May 17, 2011 Comments (2)
The SCImago Journal and Country Rank provides journal and country scientific indicators. As stated in previous posts, these types of rankings have limitations but they are also interesting. The table shows the top 6 countries by h-index and then some others I chose to list (the top 6 repeat from my post in 2008 – Country H-index Rank for Science Publications). The h-index provides a numeric indication of scientific production and significance (by looking at the citations given papers by other papers). Read more about the h-index (Hirsh index).
Country | h-index | h-index (2007) | % of World Population |
total Cites | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
USA | 1,139 | 793 | 4.5% | 87,296,701 | |
United Kingdom | 689 | 465 | .9% | 21,030,171 | |
Germany | 607 | 408 | 1.2% | 17,576,464 | |
France | 554 | 376 | 1.0% | 12,168,898 | |
Canada | 536 | 370 | .5% | 10,375,245 | |
Japan | 527 | 372 | 1.8% | 14,341,252 | |
Additional countries of interest | |||||
18) China | 279 | 161 | 19.4% | 5,614,294 | |
21) South Korea | 258 | 161 | .7% | 2,710,566 | |
22) Brazil | 239 | 148 | 2.8% | 1,970,704 | |
25) India | 227 | 146 | 17.5% | 2,590,791 | |
31) Singapore | 196 | .01% | 871,512 |
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Categories: Research, Science, Universities
Tags: China, data, global, Japan, Research, research paper, Science, science education, UK, university research, USA
2 Responses to “H-index Rank for Countries: for Science Publications”
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June 13th, 2011 @ 4:28 pm
Would have never guessed that India would outrank Singapore!
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