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The Geography of Scientific Citation
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The site is thus organized in a series of related pages that
can be referenced as follows: we have used data on 1222 Highly
Cited scientists from 12 fields, namely:
Agricultural Sciences, Biology & Biochemistry, Chemistry,
Clinical Medicine, Engineering, Immunology, Microbiology,
Molecular Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience, Pharmacology,
Plant & Animal Science, and Physics
These scientists work in 429 institutions which are mainly
universities, but also include research institutes, hospitals
and private firms, usually having some direct connection to
universities. They are located in 27 countries and in 232
distinct places or locations. In terms of our classification
of places, we have taken different localities to comprise
one place if they are part of a wider metropolitan region.
So for example, universities like Stanford and Berkeley are
grouped as part of the Bay Area while Duke, North Carolina
and the cluster of towns in that area are grouped together.
We have based this classification on what we know about the
identity of those various places. In cases where we have no
local knowledge, to help classify locations, we have used
online map systems such as MapBlast.com as well as ESRI's
set of world and country maps which they included as part
of their GIS software ArcView.
The pages that follow are organized as follows and you can
click on each to get the material
Highly Cited by Institution;
Highly Cited by Place; Highly
Cited by Country; Highly Cited
by World Region
Rank-ordered plots and Maps of these are shown where appropriate.
Use the icons in the right panel to navigate to the data table/graph/map
that you wish to see
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