This month from ScienceWatch.com, we have listed our ranking in Computer Sciences by citations per paper—among countries that collected 5,000 or more citations during the period—to reveal weighted impact.

Directly below the country rankings (which consists of 20 countries) you’ll find a detailed explanation of the methodology used to generate the list.

Here are the Top 5
1) Sweden
2) USA
3) Israel
4) Denmark
5) Switzerland

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Source: ScienceWatch (Thomson Reuters)

A study from Thomson Reuters released today predicts that, based on substantial and recent growth, India’s research productivity will be on par with most G8 nations within 7-8 years and could overtake them between 2015-2020.

The study, Global Research Report: India, informs policymakers about the research and collaboration potential of India and its current place in world science. The study is part of a new series of Global Research Reports from Thomson Reuters that will illustrate the changing landscape and dynamics of the global research base around the world.

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The study draws on data found in Web of Science, available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform.

Key findings include:

+ In the last decade, India has seen a substantial growth in its annual output of scientific publications — from roughly 16,500 in 1998 to nearly 30,000 in 2007, an increase of 80 percent.
+ India’s annual growth rate has vaulted in recent years to rival comparable figures from such well-established European and Asian nations as Japan, France, German, and the United Kingdom.
+ India’s research portfolio is markedly balanced between the life sciences and physical sciences.
* India has established stable and growing research partnerships with a variety of nations –notably, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
* South Korea has hugely increased its percentage of papers collaboratively with Indian authors in what is generally a doubling in volume of Indian collaborative output with Asian partners, possibly signaling the emergence of a clearer regional research network.

Access the Full Text Report (12 pages; PDF)

Source: Thompson Reuters

NewsBank, inc., announced today the launch of NewsInHistory.com, a subscription service providing easy access to fully-searchable historical U.S. newspapers published from 1800-2000.

Featuring thousands of newspapers from all 50 states, including new content added monthly, NewsInHistory.com provides an exceptional record of the topics, people, issues and events that shaped America’s past.

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NewsInHistory.com offers cover-to-cover reproductions of thousands of historical newspapers and millions of articles that capture the civic, political, social and cultural events of American life. This new resource will appeal to a broad spectrum of users, from the serious scholarly researcher to the casual user interested in learning more about the nation’s past.

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Source: NewsBank

+ Canadian Institutions: Most Prolific in Business, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Biology

+ Science in Australia, 2004-08

+ Paleontology: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Medicine?

Source: ScienceWatch (Thomson Reuters)

See Also: Analysis: Brazilian Science on the Rise

This month, ScienceWatch.com presents a listing of the top 20 institutions which, as of the second bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators (January 1, 1999-April 30, 2009) attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over all 22 fields in the database. These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 4,050 institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count over all fields.

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Australian Universities: Highest Impact in Space Science, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Chemistry

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ U.S. Universities with Highest Concentrations in Law, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Biology

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Telecommunications: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Medicine

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Microbiology

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Physics

Source: Thomson Reuters

Bibliometricians have introduced various scales of ranking journals; some based on publications, some based on usage as well, including the internet, using social networking analysis. Bollen et al. (1) recently concluded that no single indicator adequately measures impact and the IF is at the periphery of 39 scales analyzed. But there is a new parameter, the Eigenfactor™, which attempts to rate the influence of journals (www.eigenfactor.org). The Eigenfactor™ ranks journals in a manner similar to that used by Google for ranking the importance of Web sites in a search.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

+ Forestry: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2004-08

+ Science in Italy, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Chemistry

+ Map of Science: Physics

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Civil Engineering: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2004-08

+ What’s the “Hot” Paper in Biology

See Also: Current Classic Papers

The papers drawn from Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters have the greatest absolute increase in citations from January 1, 1998 – December 31, 2008, the previous bimonthly period (sixth of 2008) to January 1, 1999 – February 28, 2009, the first bimonthly period of 2009.

Source: ScienceWatch (Thomson Reuters)

+ Science in France, 2004-08

+ Animal Sciences: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2003-07

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Medicine

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Criminology & Penology

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Physics?

Source: Thomson Reuters

+Science in Canada, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Chemistry

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Education: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2003-07

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Biology?

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Anatomy & Morphology

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Physics

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Medicine

+ Science in Poland, 2003-07

+ Canadian Universities: Highest Impact in Earth Sciences, 2003-07

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Science in Brazil, 2003-07

+ Hot Papers in Chemistry

Source: Thomson Reuters

From the Web Page:

…a listing of the top 20 countries which, as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals of Engineering over an 11-year period, (1998-December 31, 2008). These countries are of a pool of 96 countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total citation count in this field.

Source: Thomson Reuters

+ Institution Rankings in Neuroscience & Behavior, 1998-2008

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Environmental Studies

+ Hot Paper in Biology

Source: Thomson Reuters