Country H-index Rank for Science Publications

Posted on January 22, 2008 7 Comments

The SCImago Journal and Country Rank provides journal and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database. As stated in previous posts these types of rankings have limitations but they are also interesting (such as the best research universities 2007). The table shows the top 6 countries by h-index and then some others I chose to list.

Country h-index % of World
Population		 % of World GDP total Cites % Top 500 Schools
USA

793     4.6%   27.4% 43,436,526 33%
United Kingdom

465  0.9  4.9 9,895,817 8
Germany

408  1.3  6.0  8,377,298 8
France

376  0.9  4.6  5,795,531 4
Japan

372  2.0  9.0 7,167,200 6
Canada

370  0.5  2.6 4,728,874 4
Additional countries of interest
20) China

161  20.1  5.5  1,629,993 3
20) South Korea

161    .7  1.8  1,018,532 2
24) Brazil

148  2.9  2.2 752,658 1
25) India

146  17.0  1.9 994.561 .4

Read more about the h-index (Hirsh index). Country population and GDP data taken World Development Indicators 2007, by the World Bank.

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