Brazil in the Top 20 Countries in Scientific Research - ScienceWatch.com - Thomson Reuters

According to a new update from Essential Science Indicators^SM, a publication of Thomson Reuters, the ScienceWatch.com blog Webmaster Spyder Schafer presents the 10th annual "Top 20" listings of countries which achieved particular distinction based on their papers published in indexed journals from January 2001 through August 31, 2011. Out of the 147 countries in the Essential Science Indicators database, 60 published at least 10,000 papers during the period. Countries are listed by three separate measures in the tables below: number of citations, total papers, and cites per paper. (Note: For articles with multiple authors representing different countries, each listed country receives full, not fractional, citation credit for the given paper.)
Brazil has been cited for the first time in this listing in 2010, in the 15th rank, with 190,801 published papers and an average citation per paper of 6.28 (http://bit.ly/ezIKY2). In the new 2011 listing, Brazil has mantained its rank and has risen its published papers to more than 210,000 and the citation average to 6.41 per paper. With this result, Brazil has got a significant place in the world scientific community, along with other countries of the emergent BRIC group.

Listed by Papers

Rank	Country	Papers	Citations	Cites per paper
1	USA	3,049,662	48,862,100	16.02
2	PEOPLES R CHINA	836,255	5,191,358	6.21
3	GERMANY	784,316	10,518,133	13.41
4	JAPAN	771,548	8,084,145	10.48
5	ENGLAND	697,763	10,508,202	15.06
6	FRANCE	557,322	7,007,693	12.57
7	CANADA	451,588	6,019,195	13.33
8	ITALY	429,301	5,151,675	12.00
9	SPAIN	339,164	3,588,655	10.58
10	AUSTRALIA	304,160	3,681,695	12.10
11	INDIA	293,049	1,727,973	5.90
12	SOUTH KOREA	282,328	2,024,609	7.17
13	RUSSIA	265,721	1,282,281	4.83
14	NETHERLANDS	252,242	3,974,719	15.76
15	BRAZIL	212,243	1,360,097	6.41
16	SWITZERLAND	181,636	3,070,458	16.9
17	SWEDEN	179,126	2,686,304	15.00
18	TAIWAN	177,929	1,273,682	7.16
19	TURKEY	155,276	819,071	5.27
20	POLAND	154,016	1,036,062	6.73
Source: Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters, time period: 2001-August 31, 2011 (fourth bimonthly period of 2011).

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