The 20 Most-Cited Countries in Molecular Biology & Genetics, 1997-June 30, 2007

Below is a listing of the top 20 countries which, as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Scientific-indexed journals of Molecular Biology & Genetics over the last 10-year plus 6-month period (1997-June 30, 2007). These countries are the top 20 out of a pool of 86 countries comprising the top 50% ranked by total citation count in this field.

RANK	FIELD	PAPERS	CITATIONS	CITATIONS PER PAPER
1	USA	115,418	3,723,343	32.26
	Top paper for the USA in Molecular Biology & Genetics where all of its authors are from the USA: Citations: 3,705 Title: THE HALLMARKS OF CANCER Authors: HANAHAN D; WEINBERG RA Source: CELL, 100 (1): 57-70, JAN 2000 Addresses: Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Biochem & Biophys, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA. Univ Calif San Francisco, Hormone Res Inst, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA. MIT, Whitehead Inst Biomed Res, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA. MIT, Dept Biol, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA. Read a classic Science Watch interview with Robert A. Weinberg on his work with cancer research.
2	ENGLAND	22,479	701,570	31.21
3	GERMANY	24,835	656,380	26.43
4	JAPAN	24,648	507,825	20.60
5	FRANCE	17,997	449,839	25.00
6	CANADA	13,143	335,445	25.52
7	ITALY	10,911	208,684	19.13
8	SWITZERLAND	6,304	203,754	32.32
9	NETHERLANDS	6,991	184,595	26.40
10	AUSTRALIA	6,445	143,267	22.23
11	SCOTLAND	4,330	132,833	30.68
12	SWEDEN	5,167	124,401	24.08
13	SPAIN	6,784	122,251	18.02
14	ISRAEL	3,568	102,991	28.87
15	BELGIUM	3,474	77,927	22.43
16	AUSTRIA	2,380	72,668	30.53
17	DENMARK	2,713	70,525	26.00
18	FINLAND	2,525	63,186	25.02
19	PEOPLES R CHINA	5,185	46,163	8.90
20	RUSSIA	5,931	36,300	6.12
SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators from the September 2007 update update covering a 10-year plus 6-month period, 1997-June 30, 2007.

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Thank you for your information.

I don't know why we need to rank this. 

When I thoroughly looked them all over, I found that there are many tiny countries on the list. (So, it could be misleading and unfair to them.)

Each of them is just a size of a state of the giant countries.

If we are emphasizing how efficient they are, we may need to find a factor to multiply or to divide these numbers.  Then, these countries would be appropriately comparable. 

Otherwise, we should rank the world institutes instead of countries.