StatNano Releases World Ranking of ISI Indexed Nano-Articles in 2015
The statistics published on statNano database website showed that a sum total of 130,623 ISI indexed nano-articles were published across the world in 2015 which indicated a growth of 1.6% compared to 2014.
The ISI indexed nano-articles possess a share of 9.6% of all ISI indexed articles published in 2015.
China, the US and India possess the top three ranks in the publication of
nano-articles in 2015 by publishing 44,493, 21,750, and 9,867 articles
respectively. A growth of 7.99% and 0.5% is observed in the number of
nano-articles published by China and India in 2015 compared with 2014 while a
decrease of 2.65% is seen in the number of nano-articles published by the US.
Table 1 lists the top 20 countries in the publication of ISI indexed
nano-articles in 2015.
|
No. |
Country |
No. Nano-Articles |
|
1 |
44,493 |
|
|
2 |
21,750 |
|
|
3 |
9,867 |
|
|
4 |
8,296 |
|
|
5 |
7,602 |
|
|
6 |
6,796 |
|
|
7 |
6,160 |
|
|
8 |
5,166 |
|
|
9 |
4,424 |
|
|
10 |
3,842 |
|
|
11 |
3,786 |
|
|
12 |
3,757 |
|
|
13 |
3,299 |
|
|
14 |
2,999 |
|
|
15 |
2,937 |
|
|
16 |
2,266 |
|
|
17 |
2,250 |
|
|
18 |
2,077 |
|
|
19 |
1,977 |
|
|
20 |
1,734 |
Iran ranks first in nanoscience generation considering the local share
index by having a percentage of 22.87, while Moldova and Singapore possess the
next ranks with 22.37% and 19.34%, respectively.
Table 2 presents the top 20
countries in this indicator.
|
No. |
Country |
Local Share |
|
1 |
22.87 |
|
|
2 |
22.37 |
|
|
3 |
19.34 |
|
|
4 |
18.69 |
|
|
5 |
18.41 |
|
|
6 |
17.87 |
|
|
7 |
17.25 |
|
|
8 |
16.92 |
|
|
9 |
16.57 |
|
|
10 |
16.21 |
|
|
11 |
15.99 |
|
|
12 |
15.92 |
|
|
13 |
15.02 |
|
|
14 |
14.47 |
|
|
15 |
14.29 |
|
|
16 |
13.36 |
|
|
17 |
12.91 |
|
|
18 |
12.61 |
|
|
19 |
12.54 |
|
|
20 |
12.51 |
A sum total of 1,360,520 ISI indexed articles have been published in 2015,
which shows a decrease of 4.42% in comparison with 2014. The US, China and
Germany have published the highest number of ISI indexed articles among all
other countries.
Table 3 lists the top 20 countries in the publication of
articles.
|
No. |
Country |
No. Articles |
|
1 |
346,492 |
|
|
2 |
257,921 |
|
|
3 |
94,224 |
|
|
4 |
88,718 |
|
|
5 |
69,567 |
|
|
6 |
64,400 |
|
|
7 |
59,050 |
|
|
8 |
57,121 |
|
|
9 |
55,222 |
|
|
10 |
53,919 |
|
|
11 |
52,098 |
|
|
12 |
51,660 |
|
|
13 |
37,689 |
|
|
14 |
33,929 |
|
|
15 |
30,647 |
|
|
16 |
26,935 |
|
|
17 |
25,544 |
|
|
18 |
25,513 |
|
|
19 |
23,812 |
|
|
20 |
23,701 |
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