The SCImago Journal and Country Rank provides journal and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database. I posted about this previously (in 2014, 2011 and 2008).
The data in the post is based on their data from 1996 through 2013. The web site also lets you look at these ranking by very specific categories. For example biotechnology #1 USA, #2 Germany, #3 UK, #4 Japan, #12 China or human computer interaction #1 USA, #2 Germany, #3 UK #4 Japan, #13 China).
I like looking at data and country comparisons but in doing so it is wise to remember this is the results of a calculation that is interesting but hardly definative. We don’t have the ability to measure the true scientific research output by country.
The table shows the top 6 countries by h-index and then some others I chose to list.
| Country | h-index | 2010 h-index |
2007 h-index |
% of World Population |
% of World GDP | total cites | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 1,518 | 1,139 | 793 | 4.5% | 22.2% | 152,984,430 | |
| United Kingdom | 918 | 689 | 465 | 0.9 | 3.5 | 37,450,384 | |
| Germany | 815 | 607 | 408 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 30,644,118 | |
| France | 742 | 554 | 376 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 21,193,343 | |
| Canada | 725 | 536 | 370 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 18,826,873 | |
| Japan | 635 | 527 | 372 | 1.8 | 7.8 | 23,633,462 | |
| Additional countries of interest (with 2013 country rank) | |||||||
| 16) China | 436 | 279 | 161 | 19.2 | 11.7 | 14,752,062 | |
| 19) South Korea | 375 | 258 | 161 | .7 | 1.7 | 5,770,844 | |
| 22) Brazil | 342 | 239 | 148 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 4,164,813 | |
| 23) India | 341 | 227 | 146 | 17.5 | 2.6 | 5,666,045 | |
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