In terms of country based quotations ("Most scited countries") I cannot access space science, only Geosciences, Immunology, Material Science, and Psychiatry & Psychology.
But when I first saw the list of countries at the left under "Impact in Science" I saw Argentinia was on top, and USA was on last position. Yes, I was surprised, until I realised that is was just an alphabetical order.
Did you see the same list?
data a bit old ....
newer data (but less well presented) at http://sciencewatch.com/
there you can also read:
"The 20th century was largely dominated by the US as a major powerhouse of scientific research and innovation, with 40% of the papers indexed in the Web of Science fielded by US scientists in the 1990s. By 2009, that figure was down to 29%. The US now struggles to keep pace with increased output from Europe and Asia."
hottest space science paper in January 2012:
Field: Space Science
Article Title: Herschel Space Observatory An ESA facility for far-infrared and submillimetre astronomy
Authors: Pilbratt, GL;Riedinger, JR;Passvogel, T;Crone, G;Doyle, D;Gageur, U;Heras, AM;Jewell, C;Metcalfe, L;Ott, S;Schmidt, M
Journal: ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 518: art. no.-L1 JUL-AUG 2010
* ESTEC SRE SA, ESA Res & Sci Support Dept, Keplerlaan 1, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands.
* ESTEC SRE SA, ESA Res & Sci Support Dept, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands.
* ESTEC SRE OA, ESA Sci Operat Dept, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands.
* ESTEC SRE P, ESA Sci Operat Dept, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands.
* ESOC OPS OAH, ESA Mission Operat Dept, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
* ESAC SRE OA, ESA Sci Operat Dept, Madrid 28691, Spain.
Interestingly, Space Science is the only field in which my country has positive "Impact vs. world" value (even more interestingly as we don't even have a proper national space agency)...
this might also be an indication / point to an issue with their data concerning space science publications ... quite surprising indeed that all Europeans are doing so well in this field
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