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Citation impact of all scientific publications international benchmark (WoS)

data publication
13 August 2024
Citation-impact publications
What is the Netherlands' citation impact score and what is its position in the international field? How does this citation impact score relate to scientific productivity? In this data publication, we compare the Dutch relative citation impact score of scientific publications with those of other countries.

In short

  • The Netherlands has a high average citation-impactscore between 2019-2022.
  • Only Singapore, the United Kingdom and Switzerland have a higher average citation impact score in the same period.
  • Also, the Netherlands has a high productivity compared to the other countries in the analysis..

What is the citation impact score of all publications and international co-publications per country?

Analysis
The Netherlands occupies a top position internationally when it comes to the average citation impact score. Only Singapore, the United Kingdom and Switzerland have a higher score. For all countries, publications that are the result of international collaboration have a higher citation impact score than the total. If we look at the citation score of publications involving international collaboration, only the United Kingdom has a higher score than the Netherlands.

International comparison of citation impact and productivity (2019-2022)

International comparison of productivity and citation impact score
Source: Clarivate Analytics/ WoS database, extraction CWTS and analysis by Rathenau Instituut. For FTE researchers: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development/Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI, July 2024).

Analysis
The figure above compares the field normalized citation impact score and the scientific productivity of the reference countries. For productivity, we looked at the number of scientific publications in 2022, divided by 100 FTE researchers working at a higher education institute or public research institute. Dutch science is at the top in both the citation impact score and productivity.