Finding a country to be analyzed is a rather intuitive task through the interactive. Countries are easily browsable through the world regions list and the interactive map.

Country ranks can be customized by filtering and ranking criteria and and applying a lower threshold to the ranking. Every country can be then analyzed separately, just click the country name's link to obtain an individual profile. This profile includes time series tables and charts including significative metrics of country performance. Ranking and filtering options include:

Scopus® Subject Areas and Subject Categories

Journals are assigned to 27 major thematic categories as well as to 313 specific subject categories according to Scopus® Classification. You can use these to narrow the output set

Region

Ten Wajor World Regions in which we have splitted the world to facilitate sectorial analyses

Year

Source year for obtained values

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The result set can be ranked by Cites per document (2 years), H index, Documents, Citable Documents and Total Cites

Display countries with at least

Low threshold based upon the amount of published documents, citable documents or cites

Documents

Amount of documents published during the selected year. It is usually called the country's scientific output.

Citable Documents

Selected year citable documents. Exclusively scientific articles and reviews are considered.

Cites

Amount of citations of all dates received by the documents published during the source year, --i.e. citations in years X, X+1, X+2, X+3... to documents published during year X. When referred to the period 1996-2008, all published documents during this period are considered.

Self Cites

Country self-citations. Amount of self-citations of all dates received by the documents published during the source year, --i.e. self-citations in years X, X+1, X+2, X+3... to documents published during year X. When referred to the period 1996-2008, all published documents during this period are considered.

Cites per Doc.

Average citations (of all times) per document published during the source year, --i.e. citations in years X, X+1, X+2, X+3... to documents published during year X. When referred to the period 1996-2008, all published documents during this period are considered.

H index

The h index is a country's number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both country scientific productivity and scientific impact and it is also applicable to scientists, journals, etc. (see H-index wikipedia definition)

Self Cites per Doc.

Average country's self-citations (of all times) per document published during the source year, --i.e. self-citations in years X, X+1, X+2, X+3... to documents published during year X.

Non-citable Documents (Available in the graphics)

Non-citable documents ratio for the period being considered.

Cited Documents (Cited Doc.)

Amount of documents cited at least once.

Uncited Documents (Uncited Doc.)

Amount of uncited documents, i.e. documents that have never been cited.

% International Collaboration

Document ratio whose affiliation includes more than one country address.

% Region

Country relative contribution to regional publication output.

% World

Country relative contribution to world publication output.