Citation impact of all scientific publications international benchmark (WoS)
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?
all publications | international co-publications | |
SGP | 1,37 | 1,73 |
UK | 1,31 | 1,61 |
CHE | 1,30 | 1,73 |
NLD | 1,28 | 1,75 |
US | 1,19 | 1,49 |
AUS | 1,18 | 1,64 |
DNK | 1,16 | 1,73 |
IRE | 1,16 | 1,66 |
BEL | 1,12 | 1,67 |
SWE | 1,12 | 1,63 |
CAN | 1,09 | 1,59 |
NOR | 1,09 | 1,66 |
AUT | 1,08 | 1,58 |
FIN | 1,07 | 1,63 |
ITA | 1,06 | 1,52 |
DEU | 1,04 | 1,51 |
CHN | 1,02 | 1,46 |
FRA | 1,01 | 1,49 |
ESP | 0,94 | 1,46 |
KOR | 0,82 | 1,39 |
JPN | 0,71 | 1,37 |
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)
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.
For an explanation of the used definitions and abbreviations we refer to the webpage Definitions for Science in Figures.
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