Find a Country
Countries and regions can be easily browsed through the world Regions and Country lists displayed in the Country Rankings.
Rank Countries and World Regions. Country indicators
The Country Rankings can be customized using filtering and ranking criteria, as well as by applying a lower threshold. Data is available for download in csv format.
Ranking and filtering options include:
- —Scopus® Subject Areas and Subject Categories
Journals are categorized into 27 major subject areas and more than 300 specific subject categories according to the Scopus® Classification. These categories can be used to refine the output set.
- —Region
Fifteen major World Regions to facilitate sectorial analysis.
- —Year
Source year for obtained values
- —Order by
The result set can be ranked by Documents, Citable Documents, Citations, Self-Citations, Citation per Document and H index
- —Display countries with at least
It offers the possibility to set a threshold for the number of published documents, citable documents, or citations.
Each country can be analyzed separately by clicking on the country name link to access an individual profile. This profile includes time series tables and charts to analyze key metrics of the country's performance.
The individual profile provides the option to analyze the country across all subject areas collectively or by each specific subject area, along with several indicators.
Indicators offered for each country: H Index, Documents, Citations, Citation per Document, Citable Documents and % of Citable Documents, External Cites and % of External Cites, Citable Documents and Non-Citable documents, the total output and its percentage over the region and over the world, Cited Documents and Uncited Documents, Documents by Subject Area, % of International Collaboration, External Cites and Self-Cites, % of Open Access Output.
The series tables and charts display the performance trends of these indicators from 1996 to the present.
Understanding indicators, tables and charts
- —Documents
Number of documents published during the selected year or the full period (1996-2024). It is usually called the country's scientific output.
- —Citable Documents
Number of citable documents published during the selected year or full period (1996-2024). Only articles, reviews and conference papers are considered.
- —Non-citable Documents (Available in the country profile)
Number of non-citable documents by year or for the full period (1996-2024). The ratio of non-citable documents for the full period is also available on the graphs.
- —Citations
Number of citations to documents published during the selected year. It refers to the citations received for the documents of the selected year (i.e. 2020) during 2020 and the following years since the date of publication. When the full period is selected (1996-2024), all the published documents during that period are considered.
- —Citations per Document
Average citations per document published during the selected year. It refers to the average citations per document received for the documents of the selected year (i.e. 2020) during 2020 and the following years since the date of publication. When the full period is selected (1996-2024), all the published documents during that period are considered.
- —Self Citations
The number of self-citations received by the country documents of the selected year (i.e. 2020) during 2020 and the following years since the date of publication. When the full period is selected (1996-2024), all the published documents during that period are considered.
- —H index
The h-index expresses the country's number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both country scientific output and scientific impact; it is also applicable to scientists, journals, etc. (See Hirsch, J.E. (2005)). It represents a cumulative value.
- —Cited Documents (Available in the country profile)
Number of documents cited at least once per year.
- —Uncited Documents (Available in the country profile)
Number of uncited documents; documents that have never been cited per year.
- —% International Collaboration (Available in the country profile)
Ratio of documents whose affiliations include more than one country address per year.
- —% Region (Available in the country profile)
Country's relative contribution to the region's total publication output per year.
- —% World (Available in the country profile)
Country's relative contribution to the world's total publication output per year.
