Citation impact of all scientific publications international benchmark (WoS)
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 2021-2024.
- In this comparison, only Singapore, the United Kingdom and Switzerland score higher.
- In terms of productivity, the Netherlands scores the highest internationally compared over 2021-2024.
What is the citation impact score of all publications and international co-publications per country, during 2021-2024?
| all publications | international co-publications | |
| SGP | 1,39 | 1,8 |
| UK | 1,3 | 1,6 |
| CHE | 1,3 | 1,75 |
| NLD | 1,25 | 1,73 |
| AUS | 1,18 | 1,66 |
| US | 1,16 | 1,49 |
| DNK | 1,15 | 1,77 |
| IRE | 1,14 | 1,67 |
| SWE | 1,11 | 1,64 |
| BEL | 1,08 | 1,67 |
| NOR | 1,07 | 1,62 |
| FIN | 1,07 | 1,66 |
| CHN | 1,07 | 1,5 |
| CAN | 1,06 | 1,58 |
| AUT | 1,04 | 1,59 |
| ITA | 1,04 | 1,53 |
| DEU | 1,03 | 1,52 |
| FRA | 0,98 | 1,51 |
| ESP | 0,92 | 1,47 |
| KOR | 0,83 | 1,4 |
| JPN | 0,68 | 1,39 |
Analysis
The Netherlands occupies a top position internationally when it comes to the average citation impact score. Only Singapore, the United Kingdom and Switzerland score higher. Publications resulting from international collaboration score higher in terms of citations for all countries than the citation score of a country's total number of publications. If we look at the citation score of publications involving international collaboration, only those of Denmark, Switzerland and Singapore are higher than the Netherlands.
International comparison of citation impact and productivity (2021-2024)
Analysis
The figure above compares the field-normalized citation impact score and the scientific productivity of the reference countries. For productivity, the number of scientific publications in 2024 was considered, divided by 100 FTE researchers working at an institution of higher education or a public research institute. Dutch science ranks at the top both in citation impact score and in productivity.