Rank	World Region	No of Places	No. of Highly Cited
			
1	Eastern Seaboard and South East USA	140	527
2	West of Missisippi	78	329
3	Western Europe	164	292
4	Asia Pacific	25	36
5	Australasia	11	20
6	Middle East	5	8
7	Africa	2	5
8	India and South-East Asia	3	3
9	Eastern Europe and Russia	1	2