Citation impact of all scientific publications international benchmark (WoS)
In short
- The Netherlands has a high average citation-impactscore between 2017-2020.
- Only Singapore, Switzerland and United Kingdom have a higher average citation impact score in the same period.
- Also, the Netherlands has a higher productivity compared internationally.
What is the citation impact score of all publications and international co-publications per country?
| all publications | international co-publications | |
| SGP | 1,34055812 | 1,683876314 |
| CHE | 1,335866085 | 1,756100425 |
| UK | 1,333849673 | 1,628847533 |
| NLD | 1,296551483 | 1,76237093 |
| US | 1,238492969 | 1,498995987 |
| AUS | 1,189235236 | 1,64962189 |
| DNK | 1,174177912 | 1,750798856 |
| BEL | 1,154933164 | 1,700788234 |
| IRE | 1,145651988 | 1,690965561 |
| SWE | 1,121769704 | 1,618861171 |
| CAN | 1,106443222 | 1,613563028 |
| AUT | 1,096476883 | 1,614589262 |
| NOR | 1,090290659 | 1,68570739 |
| FIN | 1,064044603 | 1,618610796 |
| DEU | 1,061181403 | 1,51203775 |
| ITA | 1,052378962 | 1,517450822 |
| FRA | 1,038934207 | 1,490851273 |
| CHN | 0,982208865 | 1,405219704 |
| ESP | 0,953231002 | 1,468445119 |
| KOR | 0,792812714 | 1,35155365 |
| JPN | 0,726658035 | 1,380489439 |
Analysis
The Netherlands occupies a top position internationally when it comes to the average citation impact score. Only Singapore, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have a higher score. Publications involving international collaboration score higher in terms of the citation score in all countries than the citation score for the total number of publications in a country. If we look at the citation score of publications involving international collaboration, the Netherlands has the highest score.
International comparison of citation impact and productivity (2017-2020)
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 2021, divided by 100 FTE public researchers. 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.